Hardware System Integration Engineer - Data Center Hardware Engineering

- Mid Level

Austin, TX

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Data Center Hardware Engineering team is looking for an experienced electrical integration engineer to work on projects from design conception to mass production. This is a highly cross-functional role which requires balancing the needs and priorities of many other teams such as mechanical, power, software, firmware, silicon design, hardware validation, and reliability engineering. Come join our team! The EE integration team is responsible for the design, specification, and realization of high-performance compute solutions supporting customer's specific requirements. This is a design and validation position that entails owning electrical engineering implementation, documentation, and validation of customized compute designs. The ideal candidate has electrical systems integration experience with emphasis in high-speed digital design using high-performance silicon. Day-to-day tasks involve electrical design, simulation, bringup, debug, and validation. Routine responsibilities also include factory build support, and multi-disciplinary cross-functional collaboration and negotiation where strong documentation and communications skills are critical. We are looking for well-rounded candidates with a broad set of skill and interests, and the curiosity to dig deep wherever necessary to solve challenging problems. In addition to technical capability, we prize curiosity, creativity, integrity, leadership, collaboration, and a passion for learning.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical engineering implementation, documentation, and validation of customized compute designs.
• Perform electrical design, simulation, bringup, debug, and validation.
• Support factory builds and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Develop functional specifications, procedures, and other documentation for complex system integration.

Requirements

• Strong EE fundamentals, grounded in a solid understanding of E&M physics and first principles.
• Outstanding written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Working knowledge of design and validation requirements for common low-speed and high-speed digital interfaces: I2C/SMBus, SPI, JTAG, USB, PCIe, Ethernet (SGMII, RMII, QFSP), DDR Memory.
• Experience with PCB bringup and debug using standard EE lab equipment: Soldering, DMM, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer.
• BS in electrical or computer engineering with a minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience.

Nice-to-haves

• High-speed board design experience with 10+ layer PCBs, including PCB material selection.
• Experience in circuit design for a variety of domains including power, digital, analog, high-speed communications, and/or programmable logic.
• Understanding of computer architecture and design tradeoffs.
• Schematic capture and constraint-driven PCB layout using Cadence tools or similar.
• Demonstrated ability to understand technology and debug problems at varying levels of abstraction, from the system-level down to the silicon/transistor level.
• Experience with designs utilizing new or custom silicon.
• Automation and data manipulation script development.
• Data analysis and visualization.