Electrical Engineer (HW Design)

Lead Hardware Engineer

Detailed Description

The successful candidate will be a self-starter who likes to take responsibility and works best with little supervision. Likes to perform a variety of tasks and have the ability to handle multiple priorities and has previously performed in a similar position. This is a 'hands-on' role requiring a strong technical background and product development experience.

Duties

1. Identify technical issues, troubleshoot and resolve them by coordinating with R&D, Manufacturing and Field teams.
2. Participate in customer technical meetings and prepare training programs for internal subordinates.
3. Hardware validation of Networking, Storage, Server products against customer’s infield issues, requirements and Mfg. issues during NPI or RMA.
4. System validation including DVT (Design Validation Trial), SPIT (Signal, Power, Integrity & Timing) environmental & regulatory approval.
5. Qualify alternative components for compatibility, cost effectiveness and benchmarking.
6. Support Manufacturing Engineering and Test Engineers on troubleshooting and resolving technical issues and root cause analysis.
7. Work with software teams to identify root cause of system failure.
8. Ability to install software such as Linux based Operating Systems, ONIE, BIOS, BMC, SES.
9. Proficient in using various test and measurement equipment including but not limited to Oscilloscope, Impedance analyzer, Power meter, Signal analyzer, Spectrum analyzer.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should have 8+ years' experience in either Network, Storage or Server products.

1. At least BEng. (Hons.) in Electronics or similar.
2. Strong electrical design and debug skills required.
3. Familiar with PCIe, NVMe, SAS, SATA, I2C, SPI, DDR buses.
4. SDRAM timing and integrity analysis for clocks, strobes, S&H, Power bounce, temp stability.
5. Hands-on design knowledge of latest peripheral chipsets for Gigabit Ethernet, SCSI, SATA, SAS, USB, Ethernet, & PCI cards etc.
6. High performance RISC / X86 CPUs and architecture including Intel, AMD, MRVL.
7. Proficient in using various test and measurement equipment including but not limited to Oscilloscope, Impedance analyzer, Power meter, Signal analyzer, Spectrum analyzer.
8. Working knowledge of Windows & Linux configuration, installation procedure, network configuration, driver configuration etc.
9. Working knowledge of Diag, ONIE, BIOS, BMC, Linux and Windows operating systems.

Desirable Knowledge

1. Experience of working in medium sized multidisciplinary development teams.
2. Ethernet Switches, Server, Storage products.
3. Orcad Schematics & Allegro PCB layout tools.

Personal Attributes

The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual capable of working with a minimum level of supervision in a dynamic team environment. Good interpersonal skills. Be able to communicate effectively (both verbal and written) with members of other teams, departments and clients; a high degree of liaison is needed. Mandarin knowledge is desirable.