Hardware Engineer 4

Hardware Engineer 4 Description :

• Seeking a self-motivated, team-oriented board design engineer to develop our next generation Solid State Drive (SSD) products.
• This position requires experience in hardware architecture, design, signal integrity and power supply design.
• This would include modeling and simulation for high speed signaling implementations and power supply design including power distribution network (PDN) simulations.
• A successful candidate will have a good working knowledge of : state of the art memory device technologies, interfaces such as SATA, SAS, PCIe Gen 3&4, ONFI and implementation techniques required for high-speed interfaces.
• In addition, this candidate will have a good working knowledge of Buck and boost power supply designs. Experience with PCB design tools (Cadence PCB design and analysis, including Si / Pi).

Expertise in the design for optimum signal and power integrity as well as hands-on lab experience.

Duties :

• Interface in cross functional teams to ensure the design meets all firmware, diagnostic and system level requirements.
• Participate in architecture definition, design reviews, requirements generation of SSD products.
• Perform basic Signal and power integrity measurements
• Document and communicate results with cross functional counterparts.
• Simulate and analyze design proposals, review results and provide recommendations on optimal design practices to other design engineers.
• Experienced in designing hardware for large scale manufacture, including DFx and low cost considerations
• Hardware design, worst-case analysis, simulations, capture schematic, de-rating and assumes complete ownership of the SSD hardware thru the product lifecycle.
• PCB back-end process : defining stack-up and via technologies, part placement, setting design constraints, signal integrity and power integrity analysis
• Works proactively with cross functional team members during design, verification as well as on RMAs

Requirements :

• BS in Electrical Engineering required; MS in Electrical Engineering is preferred
• Good written and verbal communication
• Good problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated. Desire to take on challenges. Result-driven and details oriented.
• Good in transmission line fundamentals. Understand the fundamentals of time-domain vs. frequency-domain.
• In depth knowledge in circuit designs, as well as semiconductor design.
• Good PCB design experience on high speed signals routing guideline and review, power copper routing and review, design for EMI / ESD protection.
• Design for signal integrity, including SerDes, power and interconnect.
• Develops solutions to complex technical problems, which require ingenuity and creativity.
• Analog design using simulation e.g. SPICE (or equivalent).
• Practical experience with design tools or equivalent : Cadence Sigrity, Allegro Power-Aware SIMentor Graphics HyperLynx
• Practical lab SI analysis experience using equipment or equivalent : High-bandwidth measurements (20-35GHz) via : TeledyneLecroy SDA820Zi-B OscilloscopeAgilent MSO-X 92004A OscilloscopePCIe Compliance equipment (requires also using one of the following test equipment)Teledyne Lecroy PER-R008-S01-X Protocol Aware Bit Error Rate TesterKeysight J-BERT M8041A # Protocol Aware Bit Error Rate Tester

Compensation :

$73-78.13 / hr W-2

JP 2184