The Manufacturing Engineer role at Google focuses on developing custom silicon solutions for the Edge Supply Chain Manufacturing Engineering team. This position acts as a technical bridge between design innovation and operational reality, ensuring product manufacturability from planning to mass production. The engineer will assess supply chain capabilities and drive operational excellence through Lean manufacturing principles. This role is crucial for delivering high-quality products on time while mitigating risks in the manufacturing process.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in manufacturing.
• Experience with supplier technical evaluations and managing supplier relationships.
• Proficiency with engineering and design software for modeling, analysis, and documentation.
• Knowledge of electromechanical, networking, and mechanical assembly processes.

• Lead design for excellence feasibility reviews and generate design for manufacturing feasibility reports during the concept readiness phase.
• Validate mass production readiness through run-at-rate validation reports and line balancing charts.
• Execute vendor capability assessments and factory readiness gap analyses to ensure supply chain maturity.
• Enforce quality by reviewing process capability reports and control plans during the pilot phase.
• Advocate risk management by leading process failure mode and effects analysis and conducting root cause analysis for manufacturing issues.

• Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.