# Jose Ayala Garcia

> Product Design Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joseayalagarcia

## Work Experience
### Product Design Engineer @ Google
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Pixel Phone Product Design Engineer

### Product Design Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
●	Conducted testing on different pressure-sensitive adhesives to verify adhesive properties 
●	Developed fixtures to assemble phone displays to trim using liquid-dispensed adhesives onsite
●	Initiated and led intern project to investigate use of thermally conductive materials to cool phones passively

### Advising Fellow @ Matriculate
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
●	Advised nine low-income, high-achieving high school seniors through the college application and scholarship process
●	Selected as one of fifteen advising fellows from 2020/21 Cohort to join the 2021/22 Cohort

### Hardware Product Sprint Participant @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
●	1 of 20 students selected to participate in Google’s 12-week consumer product design development program
●	Designed and developed a smart kitchen assistant using PTC Creo and Google AIY kit
●	Applied product design, injection molding, design for assembly and manufacturing techniques to ensure product robustness

### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ KLA
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Milpitas, California, United States
●	Assembled prototype, conducted testing using oxygen meter, and drove further improvements for module 
●	Conducted analyses using SolidWorks Flow Simulation to guide design modifications to improve protection factor for lens
●	Reduced module costs by 30% by updating design of module using SolidWorks

### Mecahnical Design Intern @ Wells Enterprises
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
●	Modeled and developed working drawings to reverse engineer ice cream machine parts
●	Completed modifications and technical drawings for a prototype
●	Reduced replacement component costs by up to 90% by reverse engineering parts

### Engineering Intern @ BoxPower Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
●	Prototyped solar-powered mini-grid capable of supplying a single-family house with power
●	Created computer-aided design models of the portable solar-powered generator using Autodesk Inventor
●	Supervised $50,000 solar-powered generator shipping logistics


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University

### Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jose-ayala-garcia

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Last updated: 2026-03-29