Senior Product Design Engineer, Augmented Reality

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 4 years of experience working in a product design technical environment.

• 3 years of experience with the design of plastic/metal components, printed/flexible circuit boards, and camera modules used in consumer electronic products.

• 3 years of experience in mechanical/product design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or a related field.
• 1 year of experience in technical leadership.
• Experience with building products from end-to-end.
• Ability to focus and make data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

About the job

Our computational challenges are so big and unique we can't just buy our hardware, we've got to make it ourselves. Our Platforms Team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Mechanical Engineer you design and evaluate our data center systems, identifying product requirements and contributing to research and project planning. From the chip to chiller, you are responsible for designing and optimizing an architecture that will scale with Google's continued growth.

In this role, you will be developing augmented reality and virtual reality products across phases of product development including product execution, new technology introductions, architecture layout, research, and design.

The Google Augmented Reality team is a diverse group of experts tasked with building the foundations for great immersive computing and building helpful, delightful user experiences. We're focused on making immersive computing accessible to billions of people through mobile devices, and our scope continues to grow and evolve.

Responsibilities

• Design product components and subsystems for consumer electronic devices.
• Provide product design of aesthetic consumer electronic components.
• Manage rapid design iterations and physical prototyping to drive subsystem specifications.
• Create innovative products, systems, and technologies (e.g., materials, processes, component integration, assembly techniques).
• Work with leads across teams to identify trade offs and requirements for system level component specifications.

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