Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of design experience in product design.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
• Ability to travel more than 40% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in manufacturing processes and industrial design execution.
• Experience in CMF development and implementation.
• Ability to assess cosmetic quality across a variety of materials and finishes.
• Ability to communicate quality assessment to suppliers and develop plans for improvements.
• Ability to collaborate with US-based design teams across time zones.

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

• Conduct onsite supplier visits and maintain direct communication to ensure manufacturing outputs align with rigorous industrial design standards.
• Evaluate parts and fully assembled devices throughout the development cycle, focusing on cosmetic quality, fit and finish, and "step and gap" precision; work with suppliers to achieve quality standards.
• Partner with Color, Material, and Finishing (CMF), material science, engineering, and supply chain teams to bridge the gap between design intent and mass production.
• Liaise closely with the US-based Pixel ID team to ensure global design consistency and execution.
• Provide technical and design oversight to translate conceptual industrial design into market-ready future products.