About the job

The Manufacturing Operations team is responsible for providing the manufacturing capability to deliver this physical infrastructure. As a Manufacturing Mechanical Engineer, you will support the product manufacturing with our contract manufacturer partners and create the processes, tools and procedures to ensure specifications and deliveries are met. You will be ensuring manufacturing processes are repeatable and controlled. You will collaborate with Commodity Managers, Supplier Quality Engineers and Design Engineers to determine Google’s infrastructure needs and product specifications. Your work will ensure the various pieces of Google’s infrastructure fit together perfectly and keep our systems humming along smoothly for a seamless user experience.

The Global Manufacturing Operations organization works closely with Design Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, and Commodity Management teams as well as our Manufacturing Partners to produce Google Cloud infrastructure for Google's fleet of data centers. You will be responsible for leading the development, qualification, and continuous improvement of mechanical parts and the integration of all them at partner sites globally.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Review and influence designs using design for manufacturing and assembly (DFM/DFA) fundamentals to develop manufacturable and scalable products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Mechanical Engineering, Supply Quality Engineering, Program Managers and Global Commodity Manager.
• Lead product qualifications from mechanical parts and assemblies to L11 rack integration at agreement manufacturing partners. Drive the coot cause correction action (RCCA) investigations to resolve manufacturing and system assembly issues.
• Audit suppliers, and influence sourcing strategy by providing technical feedback to the commodity management team. Lead mechanical part suppliers to improve the manufacturing yield, efficiency and throughput.
• Analyze product system assembly needs, influence mechanical designs changes, and identify solutions to problems.
• Lead manufacturing process design, optimization, and qualification. Be responsible for the mechanical parts qualification and factory physical capacity increase to build up a supply chain resilience.