Senior Staff Hardware Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Evaluation Board Development

• Independently own EVB development projects from specification through validation.
• Create hardware specifications, design documents, schematics, PCB layout requirements, assembly guidelines, and validation plans.
• Lead hardware bring-up and debugging efforts for application engineering platforms.
• Act as the hardware expert supporting both internal engineering teams and external customers.
• Drive signal integrity and power integrity analysis to support successful product deployment.
• Serve as the primary hardware liaison for application engineering activities..

EVB Bring-Up, Validation & Debug

• Lead first-power-on and bring-up activities for newly developed hardware platforms.
• Perform board-level debug involving:
• Perform root-cause analysis and drive corrective actions for hardware issues.
• Support system characterization and reliability testing activities.

Customer Optical Transceiver Support

• Support customers integrating DSP products into optical transceivers and AEC platforms.
• Review customer schematic designs and PCB layouts.
• Assist customers in resolving hardware-related issues during design and deployment phases.
• Work directly with customer hardware teams during bring-up and qualification activities.

Power Integrity & Power Delivery Design

• Analyze power delivery networks for high-performance DSP and optical products.
• Perform power integrity simulations and validation using industry-standard tools.
• Evaluate:
• Voltage ripple
• Transient response
• Decoupling effectiveness
• Power distribution performance
• Optimize power delivery architectures to meet performance and reliability requirements.

Required Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5 to 8 years of experience in high-speed hardware development, PCB design for high-speed SerDes or optical transceiver design
• Strong experience in schematic capture, PCB design review, and hardware development processes.
• Familiar with high-speed PAM4 signaling and SerDes-based systems.
• Hands-on experience with EVB design, bring-up, validation, and debug.
• Strong knowledge of signal integrity, fundamentals and channel analysis.
• Deep Knowledge of power integrity concepts and power delivery network design.
• Experience with laboratory equipment for EVB bring up:
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.