Hardware Architect

Position: Hardware Architect

Location: Moutainview, USA

Experience: 10+ years

Rate: case to case basis

Custom silicon, Digital&Power Electronics, Microcontroller, Signal integrity, Power Integrity, Hardware design, Digital System Design, EDA tools, CAD Tools, Orcad, Dx Designer, schematics, oscilloscopes, multi-meters, signal generators, PCIe Gen5/6, LPDDR5/6

• Leading the design, development, and implementation of hardware components for servers, including processors, memory, storage, and network interfaces.
• Mentoring and guiding a team of hardware engineers, providing technical expertise and support, and ensuring team members adhere to industry standards.
• Understanding customer requirements, translating them into technical specifications, and working with other departments to ensure a robust and scalable solution.

Collaborating with software engineers, system architects, mechanical, thermal and other stakeholders to ensure a cohesive and efficient system design

10+ years of experience

• Hardware board design experience from Semiconductor background.
• Experince in custom silicon chips or mobile chipset based validation boards designs, spanning analog, mixed-signal, and digital domains.
• Worked on end-to end ecosystem of projects from requirement to final product release (circuit design, prototyping and testing) and maintenance.
• Strong understanding of electronics, signal integrity (SI), Power Intigrity (PI), and power management.
• Hands on designing experience in high-speed interface standards PCIe Gen5 or Gen6 , LPDDR5 , USB 3.x, ethernet ,M.2, U.2, CSI,DSI, MCIO s HSIO s
• Experience in developing detailed schematics and Technical document writing
• Expertise on PCB design process, layout reviews , and routing guidlines
• Proficient in schematic preparation, PCB layout design, and design validation
• Strong understanding of application-specific customization and multi-chip architectures. Focus on chip efficiency, including performance and power optimization.
• Strong knowledge of PCB stack-up definition, controlled impedance routing guidelines for complex stack-ups and topologies
• Hand on experience in board bring up and validation of high speed interfaces. circuit validation, board debugging functional testing , trouble shooting, Failure analysis
• Good hands on experience in instruments like high end oscilloscopes , DMM, power supply , FG, electronic loads etc.)

Good Communication and interpersonal skills