Location: San Jose, CA
Work Mode: Onsite
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Experience Required: 10+ Years
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Hardware Design and Failure Analysis Engineer with strong expertise in high-speed hardware systems, board-level design, power integrity, signal integrity, and system-level failure analysis. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience debugging complex hardware issues, conducting component-level failure analysis, and collaborating with silicon suppliers and analytical laboratories to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
Primary Skills
High-Speed Hardware Design,
Hardware Failure Analysis and Root-Cause Analysis,
Power Integrity and Signal Integrity,
Embedded Digital Hardware Design and Development,
ASIC Circuit Design
Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Circuit Design
Thermal Analysis
Secondary Skills
PCIe Gen4 / Gen5 / Gen6,
DDR4 / DDR5 / HBM,
56G / 112G / 224G SerDes,
Optical Transceivers
Power Distribution Network (PDN) Analysis
Multi-Phase Voltage Regulator Modules (VRMs)
PMBus / SVID Telemetry
Python / C Automation
Advanced Semiconductor Packaging
Hardware Reliability and Quality Engineering
Key Responsibilities
- Lead hardware design, debugging, and failure analysis for complex electronic systems.
- Investigate power distribution network issues, including transient voltage droop, switching noise, and multi-phase VRM behavior.
- Analyze high-speed signal integrity issues across PCIe, DDR, HBM, SerDes, and optical transceiver interfaces.
- Perform system-level troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of intermittent and complex hardware failures.
- Collaborate with silicon suppliers and analytical laboratories to conduct component-level physical failure analysis.
- Analyze hardware telemetry, including PMBus and SVID data, to identify electrical and power-related anomalies.
- Develop and implement corrective actions to improve hardware performance, reliability, and product quality.
- Work with cross-functional engineering teams to resolve hardware design and validation issues.
- Communicate technical findings, failure mechanisms, and recommendations to engineering leadership and customers.
- Develop Python or C automation tools to reproduce intermittent failures and complex hardware race conditions.
- Support hardware quality and reliability initiatives throughout the product lifecycle.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field.
- Strong experience in hardware engineering, board design, or system-level failure analysis.
- Hands-on knowledge of high-speed hardware architectures, including PCIe, DDR, HBM, SerDes, and optical interfaces.
- Proven expertise in power integrity, signal integrity, and power distribution network debugging.
- Experience with hardware failure analysis, electrical measurements, troubleshooting, and root-cause identification.
- Experience working with external silicon suppliers and analytical laboratories.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to present complex technical findings to cross-functional stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting hardware quality or reliability programs for hyperscale cloud environments.
- Knowledge of chiplets, 2.5D/3D integrated circuits, CoWoS, and advanced semiconductor packaging.
- Understanding of semiconductor failure mechanisms and component-level physical analysis.
- Proficiency in Python or C for hardware automation and failure reproduction.
- Experience with ASIC design, analog and mixed-signal circuits, and thermal analysis.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by applicable law. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process may request assistance.
Employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of job-related pre-employment screening, which may include background and reference checks and, where permitted by applicable law and applicable to the position, drug testing. All such screening will be conducted in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
