Hardware Design Engineer

Hardware Design and Test Engineer

Milpitas CA

Job Description:

• 10 to 15 years of relevant experience as a Hardware design and test engineer.
• Bachelor s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or equivalent.
• Excellent problem-solving/ debugging skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Active involvement in all phases of an embedded product development (Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Prototyping, Documentation and Testing)
• Should be an expert in selecting components meeting cost, functionality, performance, regulatory and non-functional requirements such as long-term availability, size etc.
• Independently develop micro-controller and micro-processor-based designs with peripherals such as ADCs, DACs, storage, Ethernet PHYs etc
• Experience in/Knowledge of interfaces such as DDR3/4/5, PCIe Gen4 or higher, SATA, USB3.0/4.0, Ethernet, Display interfaces, Audio interfaces, SPI, I2C etc
• Proficient in developing Schematics using Cadence OrCAD tool
• Should be able to prepare the PCB layout guidelines and review the PCB layout using Cadence Allegro tool
• Experience in designing multi-layer PCBs considering EMI/EMC and signal integrity aspects
• Perform board bring-up tests, functional tests, and DVT
• Experience with hardware testing and debugging tools (e.g., Power Supply, Multimeter, Oscilloscopes, Logic analysers etc).

Good to have:

• Conduct pre-compliance screening tests for EMI/EMC/Safety etc at third party labs
• Perform reliability analysis such DFMEA, MTBF prediction, HALT testing, ESS testing etc
• Experience in high-speed designs (interfaces such as PCIe Gen 5/6, USB4.x, DDR5, 10G/100G Ethernet etc)
• Signal Integrity testing, compliance testing