Senior Structural Simulation Engineer, Pixel Watch

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with structural simulation software.
  
• Experience with engineering and physics-based first principles.
• Experience with the mechanical properties of materials (e.g., glass, ceramics, metals, plastics, polymers, or adhesives).
  
• Experience with numerical methods, modeling practices, and FEA tools (e.g., Abaqus, Ansys, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a similar field.
• 8 years of experience with structural simulation in the consumer electronics industry.

Experience with designing, building and testing prototypes to validate design concepts and analysis results.

Experience setting up both a material lab and development of validation tools.

Experience with advanced material characterization and modeling for developing numerical models.

Knowledge of design tools such as NX or similar CAD software.

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

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify risk, create analysis/simulation/validation plan, brainstorm and propose solutions to problems based on analysis data, iterate through the entire product development cycle to optimize the design to achieve product performance objectives.
  
• Own and drive analysis of cutting edge designs, enabling early optimization prior to prototyping and root cause and failure analysis of complex mechanical problems.
  
• Generate FEA/analytical models of mechanical parts, modules, and assemblies. Use static, dynamic, structural and thermal-mechanical analysis and create and develop methods to predict field failure models.
  
• Build simulation models by using thorough verification, calibration, and validation techniques and best practices leading to high-quality results.
  
• Drive the exploration, validation and integration of new technologies, materials, analysis methods and tools to advance and expand team capabilities.