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Touch Hardware Engineer, Chrome Hardware

San Francisco Bay Area, US - Information Services, Internet

Google engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. As a member of an extraordinarily creative, motivated and talented team, you develop new products that are used by millions of people. We need our engineers to be versatile and passionate to tackle new problems as we continue to push technology forward. If you get excited about building new things and aren't daunted by the challenge of building something from scratch, then our team might be your next career step.



As a Touch Hardware Engineer, you will design, develop and deploy next generation Chrome hardware. You have a solid Electrical Engineering (EE) design background and knowledge of touch input (including touchpad and touchscreen) for mobile products. You will select controllers, define sensor patterns, board/ITO layout constraints and requirements, oversee physical engineering design layout, and work cross-functionally on system integration. You will also work cross functionally with mechanical design, operation, and product to deliver systems to production.



Responsibilities

• Participate in the development of next generation portable computers. Design and develop the touch interface for portable computers from concept to mass production.


• Participate in detailed hands-on development of touchpad and touchscreen. Support partners using touch components you have designed.


• Drive resolution of cross-functional issues including those related to architecture (performance, power consumption, thermal behavior), production (quality, failure analysis, manufacturing), and development (schematic design, PCB layout, and overall system integration).


• Investigate new partitions of the touch stack. Investigate and recommend different methods of touch sensor depending on performance, cost and size required.


• Work with touch software team to define the whole solution from sensor to User Interface. Evaluate sensors, help build a lab environment that will enable repeatable testing and evaluation of sensors, controllers and algorithms. Develop quality and latency metrics. Support team in debug and failure analysis investigation.


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  Minimum qualifications
  


• BS degree in EE or equivalent practical experience.


• 3 years of touch experience.


• Experience in the design and development of touch solutions


• Experience in PCB-level and/or glass-level design engineering of touch sensors, including controller, sensor pattern, communication interfaces to the system, and appropriate power supply solutions.


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  Preferred qualifications
  


• MS degree.


• Experience with design simulation, implementation and evaluation of resistive/acoustic/optical touch sensor.


• Familiarity with design, simulation, implementation and evaluation of capacitive touch sensors, and with industry standard CAD tools such as Cadence Concept and Allegro.


• Experience with issues caused by noise and ways to mitigate.


• Experience and solid understanding of the system development process including symbol creation, schematics, and board design and development, as well as board and system bring up and debugging.


• Understand entire product development process for mass volume production design, with a focus on DFM (design for manufacturing) and DFT (design for test) and experienced working with OEM, ODM, JDM, and CM partners (or some subset of these).


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  The web is what you make of it, and the Chrome and Apps team is helping the world make more of the web. From open-source pros to user-experience extraordinaires, the team develops products like Chrome OS, Gmail and Google Docs that help users connect, communicate and collaborate with others. Our consumer products and Enterprise platforms are giving millions of users at homes, businesses, universities and nonprofits around the world the tools that shape their web experience -- and changing the way they think about computing.
  
  
  
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