Supplier Quality Engineer, Tape Storage

About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

You will join the team responsible for setting and managing the quality and reliability standards for our Tape Infrastructure (including Tape Drives, Media, and Library Automation) across Google. 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.

You have extensive involvement in the tools, processes and technologies used to assess Tape Drive mechanics, magnetic tape media, and robotic library automation quality and reliability. You have superb partner collaboration skills and love to sift through data and use it to drive design or manufacturing process improvements.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $144000 - $208000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate extensively with supplier design and factory teams to ensure Tape drives, media, and libraries meet Google quality and reliability requirements.
• 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).
• Facilitate SQE collaboration with the Design, Manufacturing, and Commodity teams across all Tape activities in NPI and sustaining.
• Ensure comprehensive failure analysis including corrective and preventive actions.
• Mitigate risks to Google through comprehensive supplier audits, process control audits, and regular quality reviews.

Minimum qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Quality Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 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).
• Thrives in ambiguity as an adaptable team player, detail oriented.
• Ability to travel up to 25% as needed.
• Excellent leadership, communication and relationship management skills.