Senior Structural Simulation and Model Validation Engineer, Watch - Google
Mountain View, CA
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with structural simulation of mechanical components such as plastic or metal parts, mechanical assemblies, printed circuit boards, or flexes.
- 5 years of experience using Finite Element Analysis tools such as ABAQUS, ANSYS, or similar.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a similar field.
- 8 years of experience in structural analysis and testing for consumer hardware.
- 3 years of experience in a mechanical test lab using Instron, DMA, DIC, strain gauge boxes, creating test plans and preparing data analysis, as well as reports for nonlinear materials and systems.
- Experience with the development and integration of electro-mechanical components (e.g., display assemblies, batteries, antennas).
- Experience with 3D CAD (e.g., NX, ProE, or Solidworks), to design test fixtures using and working with internal/external fabrication shops to build fixtures.
About the job
As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you use your creativity and diverse range of engineering experience to explore solutions to a variety of engineering problems. As a mechanical engineer, you participate in the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts. You work in a manufacturing and product oriented development environment and collaborate with vendors and outside sources in order to see parts through to manufacture.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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.
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Responsibilities
- Manage ownership of workflows to improve model accuracy, starting with creating system and subsystem level Finite Element Models (ABAQUS preferred) and performing explicit (drop) and implicit (quasistatic) simulations for Pixel Watch.
- Partner with Product Design, Reliability, Material Science Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to define appropriate advanced material characterization and model validation/correlation tests and using these results to develop nonlinear material cards and failure models e.g. glass cracking, damage, viscoelastic, hyperelastic, thermoelastic, strain-rate dependent.
- Use these advanced models to improve system-level Watch models in terms of design guidance and failure risk identification during early and detailed product design phases.
- Document results of analyses with reports and present to product teams, cross-functional teams, and upper management.
