Google has reportedly poached an Apple employee to hire on its own staff. VentureBeat reports that Google has hired Apple’s (now former) Senior Director of Product Integrity Simon Prakash for a secret project, where he would work perhaps along with Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin. Prakash could even work under Motorola Mobility, whom Google is working to acquire, to head hardware projects.

Prakash worked at Apple for over eight years, and was responsible for the product quality across Apple’s products, from iPhones to Macs. To boost his reputation, you may recall that Apple was voted top among product quality in a recent JD Power and Associates Award for the sixth consecutive last year. It’s pretty obvious why Google would go after such an employee.

Prakash could be joining Google to work on Google X’s wearable heads up displays glasses we showed you in December. Former Apple employee Richard DeVaul, a PhD. scientist from MIT with a focus on building wearable technologies, also left Apple to join Google X’s team. Is Google building up a huge, talented, team for such a large product?

We have more iOS device executive departure news forthcoming, so stay tuned.