Senior Failure Analysis Engineer, Early Field Failure Analysis
Job Overview
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Date PostedApril 11, 2026
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Job Description
2026-03-30T11:32:13.875Z
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Material Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience troubleshooting/failure analysis.
- Experience with consumer electronics products and technologies.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.
- Experience with standard focus area tools, including: microscopes, multimeters, and oscilloscopes at least one of the following: X-ray/CT, SEM+ EDS, mechanical cross sectioning.
- Excellent project management, people management, and organizational skills.
About the job
As a Failure Analysis Engineer, you will be a key player in the complete product life-cycle. You will provide insight to the design team for design risks by performing tear-downs of prototype devices, based on lessons learned from previous experience. You will perform failure analysis of both development units and field returns by working with manufacturing partners and cross-functional engineering teams to identify root cause and implement corrective actions. You will also work with the product safety team to identify and resolve any product safety claims.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $144,000-$209,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Responsibilities
- Minimize failures experienced by customers.
- Reproduce and analyze field failures to understand failure mechanism and root cause.
- Ensure materials and failure analysis capabilities required to support whole device screening (Level 1) and module level (Level 2) failure analysis are in place.
- Work with the cross-functional teams to take field failures from root cause identification through corrective action.
- Understand factory Outgoing Quality Control (OQC) process and work on improving any gaps, based on field returns, that could result in customer failures.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
