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Product Safety Engineer

Google· Google hardware safety team
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Mountain View, CA, USA$132k - $189kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

The Google hardware safety team focuses on designing and delivering helpful consumer hardware products, working across field safety, laboratory analysis, failure modes, batteries and electrical circuits for smart home devices, phones, laptops, tablets, wearables, and accessories. The role involves evaluating field failures and customer complaints, performing benchtop laboratory examinations, researching device usage statistics, determining root causes, and collaborating with cross-functional product teams throughout the development life cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate customer safety related complaints.
  • Maintain a database that tracks safety issues, and identify trends.
  • Perform root cause analysis and laboratory testing of new or fielded products related to user safety.
  • Engage with cross-functional teams to identify potential component, module, system, and user interactions which cause safety concerns. Resolve conflicts in design goals and ensure that future product designs enhance solutions previously implemented.
  • Collaborate with other teams to drive improvements in design, processing, handling, installation, and qualification of hardware devices.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a specialized field (e.g., Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP, etc.), or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience working in a technical environment.
  • Experience with laboratory techniques and failure analysis.
  • Experience in evaluating, testing, and disassembling consumer electronics.
  • Experience in data analysis techniques.

Skills

Required:Customer safety analysisRoot cause analysisLab techniquesDisassembly of electronicsData analysis

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (linked in job description).
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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