# Sensors Hardware Engineer Health - Google Careers
## Job Details
- Location: Mountain View, CA, USA
- Experience Level: Mid
- Job Type: Full-time
## About the Role
Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members with deeper expertise and applied knowledge within the relevant area.
## Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience working in sensor design, OR 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
## Preferred Qualifications
- Masters or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time to support hardware builds.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
## About the Job
The Sensors Engineering team is at the forefront of creating and bringing to market sensing systems for Googles consumer hardware. They innovate by taking a broad view, transforming new technologies into products for everyone.
The Watch and Tracker Health Sensing team focuses on pioneering, designing, validating, and integrating Photoplethysmogram (PPG), Electrocardiogram (ECG), and Electromyogram (EMG) sensors.
In this role, you will:
- Collaborate across teams to shape the technical goal, choosing and refining sensor technologies to enable groundbreaking user experiences.
- Expand the possibilities of what can be measured and understood through wearable devices using electrical engineering.
- Play a key role in developing concepts into finished products and enhancing the electrical architecture and ASIC for Googles wearables year after year.
- Be responsible for prototyping new hardware, analyzing sensor data to identify valuable insights, and designing experiments to gather that data.
- This may involve numerous experiments, often incorporating both hardware and human interaction.
- Collaborate with a variety of technical specialists within the Technical Engineering (TechEng) team to manage complex issues, ultimately contributing to product launches in conjunction with other Google Engineering teams.
## Responsibilities
- Design, analyze, prototype, and validate electrical design of health sensors.
- Create, review, and analyze analog/digital circuit schematics and layout relative to sensors.
- Examine distributions and set manufacturing limits.
- Conduct failure analysis and debug of units created at the build.
- Write engineering requirements specifications and engineering reports for projects.
## Compensation
- US Base Salary Range: $159,000 - $231,000
- Note: Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
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