Product Design Architect, Platforms and Devices
Share Product Design Architect, Platforms and Devices
corporatefare_ Google place Mountain View, CA, USA
Mid
Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.
Share Product Design Architect, Platforms and Devices
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, Industrial Design, Manufacturing) or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of experience in consumer product design, including in the consumer electronics industry.
Experience with 3D surfacing, utilizing NX/Alias.
Experience designing and shipping consumer products.
Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
Experience in aligning design team's efforts with the company's goals.
Experience with materials, manufacturing and all phases of the design process, and apply this expertise to provide innovative solutions to complex problems.
Experience leading projects from concept to mass production as a great team player, with a willingness to learn.
Proven record of shipping exceptional consumer products.
Ability to grow in ambiguity, fixated on customer experience, be detail oriented and do what it takes to get the job done.
Strong problem-solving abilities, excellent communication and presentation skills.
About the job
The Product Design Architect team is part of Google's Hardware Design organization, and our core mission is to support the industrial design team's goal by developing ideas into products. We shape the future by designing consumer devices that harness the power of Google to delight and inspire millions of people worldwide.
Our Product Design Architect team uses a deeply-considered approach to craft beautiful, production-ready Class-A surfaces with an extremely high bar for quality, aesthetics, and mathematical precision. Beyond delivering these user-visible surfaces, we also partner cross-functionally to investigate mechanical/component architectures and develop innovative design concepts for appearance models, visualizations and functional proto@types.
As a Product Design Architect, you'll use 3D CAD software to capture and maintain industrial design goal from concept to production. You have an understanding across a broad range of manufacturing processes and leverage cross-functional collaboration to meet requirements across engineering, UX, reliability and cost.
In this role, you will be passionate about pushing 3D CAD to the highest level, sweating the details to bring beautiful designs into mass production.
The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
Leverage NX/Alias to capture and maintain industrial design intent from sketches, reference CAD, and discussions.
Collaborate with Industrial Design, UX, Engineering, Manufacturing, and external teams to deliver production-level CAD models with Class-A surfaces (in NX/Alias) that meet requirements.
Create high-quality 3D surfaces for various design concepts, proto@types, engineering evaluations and visualizations.
Work independently and cross-functionally throughout the development and build process. Travel may be needed (e.g. manufacturing facilities overseas) to ensure solutions have manufacturing viability while holding the design goal intact.
Present knowledge of new materials and processes, state-of-the-art innovation, and emerging technologies that inform product development. Identify future tools and processes to enhance capabilities and support department and company growth.
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