Job Title: Senior Board Design Engineer
Location: Austin TX
Job Description:
- Seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Board Design Engineer to join our hardware engineering team in Austin TX.
- In this role you will be responsible for the design development and validation of complex server boards that power nextgeneration platforms.
- The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in schematic design PCB layout and systemlevel design considerations.
- You will collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams including silicon design firmware and manufacturing to deliver innovative solutions to our enterprise customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Board Design and Development:
- Design and develop highcomplexity server boards including processor boards power delivery subsystems and peripheral interface cards.
- Create detailed schematic designs and guide PCB layout to ensure signal integrity and thermal management.
- Design Validation and Debug:
- Validate board designs through simulations and physical testing to ensure functionality and performance meet standards.
- Debug hardware issues and provide root cause analysis and solutions.
Collaboration and Documentation:
- Work with silicon firmware and manufacturing teams to align board designs with product specifications.
- Generate detailed design documentation including schematics BOMs and test plans to support manufacturing and production teams.
- Signal Integrity and Power Analysis:
- Perform signal integrity power integrity and thermal analysis on board designs.
- Optimize designs to meet performance manufacturability and reliability requirements.
- Design for Manufacturing (DFM):
- Work closely with PCB fabricators and assembly houses to ensure designs are manufacturable at scale.
- Review and incorporate DFM feedback into board designs.
Qualifications:
Education & Experience:
- Bachelors or masters degree in electrical engineering or a related field.
- 8 years of experience in board design for highperformance computing or server products.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in schematic capture tools (e.g. OrCAD Cadence Allegro Design Entry).
- Expertise in PCB layout tools (e.g. Cadence Allegro PCB Editor).
- Strong understanding of highspeed signal integrity power integrity and thermal design principles.
- Familiarity with interfaces such as PCIe DDR NVMe USB and highspeed serial links.
- Experience with systemlevel debug tools like oscilloscopes logic analyzers and protocol analyzers.
- Knowledge of power delivery network design and voltage regulator module selection.
Soft Skills:
- Strong problemsolving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
- Ability to work in a fastpaced collaborative environment.