Thermal Manufacturing Engineer, Global Capacity Delivery

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 10 years of experience in process or product development with thermal assemblies for electronics packaging systems.
  
• Experience with simulation or performance analysis of liquid cooling thermal solutions, precision machining, brazing (furnace, vacuum), soldering, skiving, zipper fin stamping/assy, welding, purge/fill, or sintering processes.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.
  
• Experience with process and production line development for thermal assemblies.

Experience with Modeling CAD (Creo) and Thermal Analysis (FloTHERM).

Understanding of high performance liquid cooling thermal solutions.

Ability to produce a timely and accurate work product.

Excellent problem solving and organizational skills, coupled with a well-focused attention to details.

About the job

Google's custom-designed equipment makes up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Manufacturing Operations team is responsible for providing the manufacturing capability to deliver this state-of-the-art physical infrastructure. As a Manufacturing Engineer, you evaluate the product designs and create the processes, tools and procedures behind Google's powerful search technology. When vendors build parts for our infrastructure, you're right there alongside ensuring manufacturing processes are repeatable and controlled. You collaborate with Commodity Managers and Design Engineers to determine Google's infrastructure needs and product specifications. Your work ensures the various pieces of Google's infrastructure fit together perfectly and keep our systems humming along smoothly for a seamless user experience.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for developing manufacturing strategy, performing Design for Excellence (DFX) and driving implementation of manufacturing solutions for thermal assemblies. Drive concurrent engineering through effectively communicating design, process, tooling, and material changes to manufacturing partners and design engineering peers.
  
• Be technical representative of Thermal Commodity team, providing manufacturing engineering expertise in supplier selection, qualification and management during product development and sustaining.
  
• Research, develop and qualify advanced thermal manufacturing solutions to ready the supply chain for future product requirements. Simulate and/or oversee simulation of high performance liquid cooling solutions.
  
• Provide support for manufacturing and field quality issues, owning resolution of manufacturing/supplier issues and driving design issues with the Engineering team as appropriate.