Packaging Design Engineer

Google

Sunnyvale, CA

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
SKILLS
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Assemblers Technology, Assembly Drawings, Assembly Line, Bill of Materials (BOM), CAD (Computer-Aided Design) Software, Cargo/Freight, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Cross-Functional, Document Management, Engineering Change Order, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Finite Element Analysis, Industrial Design, International Operations, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Design, Mass Production, Network Operations Center, Operations Research, PTC Creo, Product Design, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Packaging, Product Requirements Document (PRD), Product Safety, Product/Service Launch, Prototyping, Recycling, SolidWorks, Supply Chain, Technical Drawing, Technical Leadership, Technical Writing, Technical/Engineering Design, Testing
LOCATION
Sunnyvale, CA
POSTED
24 days ago

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in hardware product packaging and structural design.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 8 years of experience in hardware or industrial packaging design.
  • Proven ability to work autonomously, take complete ownership of projects, and deliver results with minimal guidance.
  • Natural innovator with a track record of thinking outside-the-box to design creative solutions for complex structural, space, or material constraints.

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.

The Packaging Design Engineer serves as the critical technical link between advanced hardware engineering and global operations. In this role, you will lead the end-to-end structural development, mechanical validation, and technical execution of protective packaging systems designed specifically for complex, high-value, and shock-sensitive hardware infrastructure.

Operating within a changing New Product Introduction (NPI) framework, you will own the entire packaging development lifecycle from initial concept phase through to global mass production. You will cross-functionally collaborate with product designers, supply chain partners, and manufacturing facilities to translate complex product fragility requirements into highly reliable, scalable, and freight-efficient architectures.

You will bring a data-driven approach to structural design, utilizing predictive engineering tools alongside physical testing to eliminate transport risks. You will act as an internal advocate for sustainable engineering, continuously identifying opportunities to reduce carbon footprints, minimize material waste, and optimize cube utilization without ever compromising product safety. Ultimately, your work ensures that our next-generation physical infrastructure transitions seamlessly and reliably from factory floors to global deployment sites around the world.

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 - $209000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Utilize advanced Three-Dimensional/Two-Dimensional Computer-Aided Design software (SolidWorks, Artios CAD, Creo, etc.) to architect complex structural packaging solutions and generate precise technical drawings, assembly instructions, and cushion layouts.
  • Manage technical documentation within Product Lifecycle Management systems. Own the release of Bills of Materials, component specifications, and Engineering Change Orders/Requests.
  • Apply strict Design for Manufacturing principles to optimize pack-out workflows, ensuring packaging designs can be assembled efficiently, safely, and seamlessly on global manufacturing lines.
  • Serve as the Subject Matter Expert on packaging material properties, driving the integration of novel, high-performance, and sustainable or recyclable materials to meet corporate environmental goals.
  • Conduct Finite Element Analysis and dynamic simulations to evaluate drop impact, velocity, and vibration stress distribution, accelerating development and reducing physical prototyping loops.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

About the Company

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Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V