Hardware System Validation Engineer, Pixel Fuel Gauge

Mountain View, CA

Full-time

Onsite

$126K/yr - $181K/yr

Entry, Mid Level

Google is developing custom silicon solutions to power the future of their direct-to-consumer products. The Hardware System Validation Engineer will contribute to innovation by executing validation strategies and ensuring product quality through electrical and system-level validation.

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Responsibilities

Execute characterization of battery fuel gauge performance and core functionality at both module and system levels
Develop validation strategies and plans, execute electrical/system-level validation to catch and fix design issues through build cycles to improve the overall product quality and meet the launch schedule
Develop integrated solutions to resolve the system-level issues, such as Peak Power Management, Battery and Fuel Gauge, SoC throttling policies, and System on a Chip/Hardware (SoC/HW) stability issues in a form factor and low power device
Establish lab and factory test capabilities which include test plan, automation, test fixture/station, failure analysis, yield tracking, test cycle optimization, etc
Drive the validation/test solutions for adopting new technologies into Google products to improve test coverage/efficiency

Qualification

Required

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
2 years of experience working in a silicon design and debug technical environment, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field
Experience in device bring-up and triage
Experience in Python, C or other scripting languages, developing test infrastructure and creating test frameworks for system power or battery management
Experience with communication protocols such as I2C, SPMI, USB-PD
Experience in deriving Design of Experiments (DOEs) and statistical analysis for categorizing and capturing improvement/regression