Supplier Development Engineering Manager, Mechanical Operations

HARDWARE_ENGINEERING
New Taipei City, Taiwan
February 13, 2026
FULL_TIME

Job Overview

Job Description

2026-02-09T12:31:12.239Z

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in the consumer electronics manufacturing industry.
  • 8 years of experience in project launches, Design for Excellence (DFx), and fixture design/qualification.
  • 8 years of experience in people management.
  • Experience in vendor management, mechanical part end-to-end quality management, statistical processes control, metrology design.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.
  • Knowledge of surface finishing and fabrication processes, including painting, plating, Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), Metal Injection Molding (MIM), anodizing, polishing, lapping, and sandblasting.
  • Experience in mechanical bonding like snap/press fits, ultrasonic welding, and adhesives.
  • Experience in improving yields and cycle times for premium-finish components.
  • Experience in influencing design through data-driven Design for Excellence (DFx) proposals and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) callouts.
  • Ability to implement cosmetic quality standards, color and finish measurement, defect catalogs, and grading limits.

About the job

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Design, Industrial Design, Project Management, Reliability, and Product Operations to deliver Google Hardware products to market
  • Provide detailed and critical Design for Manufacturing reviews of mechanical parts and make recommendations to Product Design to improve manufacturing processes for quality, yield, and cost.
  • Use statistical process control and yield studies to validate process capability (Cp/Cpk), establish reasonable specifications with PD/ID, and drive process improvements in partnership with a cross functional team. 
  • Work with Reliability Engineering to set up ongoing reliability test plans for manufacturing processes that are critical to function and fix the issue.
  • Act as the first-level go-to person for identifying suitable manufacturing processes. Identify and highlight manufacturability issues during engineering builds to ensure product quality is stable and that supply is predictable during ramp.

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.

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