Google Inc. is hiring: Power Hardware Engineer, Pixel in Mountain View

Google place Mountain View, CA, USA

This role is responsible for designing, optimizing, and integrating enjoyable and safe charging experiences into Pixel phones and wearables. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Electrical Engineering (EE), Power Delivery (PD), Software, and Validation, will be necessary to integrate battery charging hardware into Google hardware devices.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional hardware, software, and systems teams to define, implement, and integrate battery charging (wired/wireless) hardware solutions to meet product battery charging requirements.
• Define and develop detailed circuit/analytic models for optimizing charging efficiency, reducing charging time, and improving charging thermal performance.
• Define, develop, and optimize magnetic components for charging, for example, wireless charging coils using EM/analytic modeling and simulation tools.
• Create hardware power testing plan, validate the charging hardware system, and work with cross-functional teams for system validation in products.
• Propose and drive implementation of innovative new power solution for charging features across hardware and software to provide a positive experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience working in a consumer or wearable electronics system design technical environment.
• Experience in one or more of the following: architecture, power/battery, low/high speed interface (e.g., MIPI, SPI, I2C, DDR, USB, I2S/PDM), analog engineering, and connectivity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Power Electronics or related discipline.
• 5 years of experience in power conversion design for consumer electronics applications, (e.g., battery charging, USB-PD adapter, wireless charging, etc.).
• Experience in wireless charging design and WPC-Qi specification.
• Knowledge of system power converter modeling and simulation, electromagnetic modeling, analysis fundamentals, and simulation tools.
• Knowledge of on-board power conversion design for consumer electronics battery charging applications.

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