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Motion Sensor Hardware Engineer, Sensors Engineering
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with sensor testing, calibration, and validation, including automated data ingestion, processing, analysis and issue identification.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5 years of experience in motion sensor hardware including IMU (accelerometer/gyroscope), magnetic sensors and pressure sensors.
- 5 years of experience with sensor testing, calibration processes, system-level validation and failure analysis.
- Experience in sensor technology, physics, design, applications, and system integration challenges in mass production quantities.
- Experience with scripting (e.g., Python, MATLAB), software development (e.g., C, C++), and general AI literacy.
- Familiarity with high volume consumer product development and manufacturing test and qualification.
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
- Develop sensor system integration design strategy considering electrical, mechanical and thermal constraints. Review sensor schematic, board layout and mechanical designs for wearable and phone products maintaining best practices for sensors.
- Design and execute plans to bring-up, debug, calibrate, and validate sensor design in systems to achieve functional and performance goals at the product/UX level.
- Conduct root cause analysis and drive correction actions to resolve sensor related engineering challenges and issues.
- Support internal, cross-functional, or external collaborations as required during sensor design review, manufacturing, factory testing/calibration, validation, execution and FACA.
- Document and report sensor hardware design and performance results, maintain hardware engineering specification and contribute to cross-functional communication.