Hardware System Integration Engineer (Data Center Server Hardware)

Quick Facts

• Role: Hardware System Integration Engineer (Data Center Server Hardware)

Description

Contribute to the end-to-end hardware engineering lifecycle for high-performance server compute designs—from specification and schematic capture through board bring-up, validation, and factory build support. Partner with senior engineers and cross-functional teams (mechanical, power, software, firmware, silicon, manufacturing, and reliability) to ensure design requirements are met at scale. The work includes high-speed interface validation, compliance testing, and systematic hardware debugging.

Responsibilities

• Create hardware system designs and perform schematic capture for server main logic and companion boards, including layout guidance and design constraint management
• Run signal integrity simulation, conduct board bring-up, and perform hands-on debug from system level down to component/circuit level
• Develop and maintain functional specifications, validation plans/procedures, and integration documentation
• Validate high-speed digital interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR, and others), including compliance testing and protocol analysis
• Collaborate cross-functionally to balance design tradeoffs and meet program requirements
• Support NPI and factory builds, including travel to overseas build sites, plus sustaining engineering through mass production
• Drive issues to root cause using EE lab instrumentation (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, DMM)
• Apply DFM/DFT/DFA principles for manufacturability at scale

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• 1+ years of relevant industry work experience in hardware or systems engineering
• Working knowledge of low-speed and high-speed digital interfaces: I2C/SMBus, SPI, JTAG, USB, PCIe, Ethernet (SGMII, RMII, QSFP), and DDR memory
• Broad circuit design experience across power, digital, analog, high-speed communications, and/or programmable logic
• PCB bring-up and characterization experience using standard EE lab equipment
• Ability to debug complex hardware issues from system level down to circuit level
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills and experience producing technical documentation

Benefits

• Work on customized compute platforms from concept through mass production in a highly collaborative environment
• Full lifecycle server hardware engineering exposure, including validation and factory build support