Hardware Engineer 4_USD

Longmont, Colorado

Employer: Experis
Industry: 
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Part-Time
Experis is seeking an SSD Hardware Engineer on behalf of our global manufacturing client to work onsite in Longmont, CO.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Interface in cross functional teams to ensure the design meets all firmware, diagnostic and system level requirements.
  • Participate in architecture definition, design reviews, requirements generation of SSD products.
  • P erform basic Signal and power integrity measurements
  • Document and communicate results with cross functional counterparts.
  • Simulate and analyze design proposals, review results and provide recommendations on optimal design practices to other design engineers.
  • Experienced in designing hardware for large scale manufacture, including DFx and low-cost considerations
  • Hardware design, worst-case analysis, simulations, capture schematic, de-rating and assume complete ownership of the SSD hardware throughout the product lifecycle .
  • PCB back-end process: defining stack-up and via technologies, part placement, setting design constraints, signal integrity and power integrity analysis
  • Works proactively with cross functional team members during design, verification as well as on RMAs fpga

Critical Skills
  • Self-motivated. Desire to take on challenges. Result-driven and details oriented.
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills are a must.
  • Good in transmission line fundamentals. Understand the fundamentals of time-domain vs. frequency-domain.
  • In depth knowledge in circuit designs, as well as semiconductor design.
  • Good PCB design experience on high-speed signals routing guideline and review, power copper routing and review, design for EMI/ESD protection.
  • D esign for signal integrity, including SerDes, power and interconnect.
  • Develops solutions to complex technical problems, which require ingenuity and creativity.
  • Analog design using simulation e.g. SPICE (or equivalent).
  • Practical experience with design tools or equivalent:
  • Cadence Sigrity, Allegro Power-Aware SI
  • Mentor Graphics HyperLynx
  • Practical lab SI analysis experience using equipment or equivalent
  • High-bandwidth measurements (20-35GHz) via:
  • Teledyne Lecroy SDA820Zi-B Oscilloscope
  • A gilent MSO-X 92004A Oscilloscope
  • PCIe Compliance equipment (requires also using one of the following test equipment)
  • T eledyne Lecroy PER-R008-S01-X Protocol Aware Bit Error Rate Tester
  • Keysight J-BERT M8041A # Protocol Aware Bit Error Rate Teste

Qualification Requirements
  • BS in Electrical Engineering required; MS in Electrical Engineering is preferred
  • Good written and verbal communication
  • Good problem-solving skills
  • E xperience in hardware architecture, design, signal integrity and power supply design.
    • This would include modeling and simulation for high speed signaling implementations and power supply design including power distribution network (PDN) simulations.
  • A successful candidate will have a good working knowledge of state-of-the-art memory device technologies, interfaces such as SATA, SAS, PCIe Gen 3&4, ONFI and implementation techniques required for high-speed interfaces.
  • In addition, this candidate will have a good working knowledge of Buck and boost power supply designs.
  • Experience with PCB design tools (Cadence PCB design and analysis, including Si/Pi).
  • Expertise in the design for optimum signal and power integrity as well as hands-on lab experience.
Created: 2024-06-13
Reference: 316867
Country: United States
State: Colorado
City: Longmont
ZIP: 80501