Supplier Quality Engineer, Tape Storage
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sponsorship not specified$144k-$208kDetected 49 min ago
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About the role
- - Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- - 8 years of experience in tape drive, tape media, or tape library quality, reliability or manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate extensively with supplier design and factory teams to ensure tape drives, media, and libraries meet Google quality and reliability requirements.
- Be responsible for supplier quality engineering (SQE) collaboration with the Design, Manufacturing and Commodity teams across all tape activities in NPI and sustaining.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in tape drive, tape media, or tape library quality, reliability or manufacturing.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as needed.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.
- 8 years of experience as a component, quality, reliability or product engineer in tape drive, media, or library commodities used in server and storage data center infrastructure equipment.
- Technical expertise in tape heads, magnetic recording, tape-to-head interface (tribology), LTO/Enterprise tape standards, and robotic automation mechanisms (pickers, actuators).
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity as an adaptable team player, detail oriented.
- Strong leadership, communication and relationship management skills.
- The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable.
- You are a Quality and Reliability expert with a track record of improving the quality of Tape storage systems during new product introduction (NPI) and maintaining it throughout its life cycle.
- Track failure trends in production and data centers while driving continuous improvement and root-cause failure analysis with suppliers using structured methodologies (e.g., 8D, CAPA).
Skills
- Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Compensation
- US: $144000 - $208000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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