Senior Hardware Design Engineer

$130,000 - $192,000/Yr

Arista Networks - Santa Clara, CA

Full-time - Senior

Santa Clara, CA

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

The Senior Hardware Design Engineer at Arista Networks plays a crucial role in the development of high-speed networking and Ethernet products. This position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to innovate on system architectures and high-speed PCB designs, ensuring the delivery of advanced hardware solutions that meet the demands of modern networking environments. The engineer will be responsible for the entire hardware design process, from authoring specifications to debugging prototypes and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Authoring Functional Specifications of high power and high density Ethernet switches used in AI networks
• Selecting and Qualifying Components
• Schematic Capture (both flat and hierarchical)
• Working closely with eCAD teams on PCB layout and component footprints
• Running signal integrity simulations on both power and datapath signals
• Specifying PCB stackup and fabrication details with various PCB vendors
• Collaborating with local and overseas Contract Manufacturers (CM), from proto through production
• Lab bring up and debug of prototypes
• Driving complex system debug between software, hardware, and test teams
• Training CM for high yield test and manufacturing
• Guiding groups of engineers and mentoring younger engineers

Requirements

• BSEE or MSEE
• 10+ years of relevant experience in hardware engineering
• Experience designing Networking Hardware, particularly involving 100G and 200G PAM4 Ethernet switching
• Embedded x86/ARM system design is highly desirable
• Experience designing 20+ layer count boards featuring 50G+ signals, and advanced PCB manufacturing technologies such as sequential lamination, HDI, and ultra-low-loss materials
• Experience working with multi-phase DC/DC's for high current, high transient loads
• Experience working with High speed interfaces, such as DDR, PCIe
• Writing specifications and drawing schematics for high complexity boards
• Working closely with CAD designers on complicated layout and routing
• Familiarity with signal integrity and power integrity concepts and tools, such as: impedance, PDN's, differential routing, insertion loss, S-parameters, TDR's, VNA's
• Experience with mass production Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
• FPGA design and system simulation using Verilog
• Successfully taking products from concept to production

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with Contract Manufacturers

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Wellbeing programs
• Tax savings
• Income protection