Electrical Engineer (Board-Level Hardware)

Quick Facts

Role: Electrical Engineer (board-level hardware)

Team focus: Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering (CHSE)

Work: Electrical design and validation for cloud infrastructure hardware (server, compute, storage, networking, accelerator, and management-module boards)

Description

Own electrical board-level design tasks and subsystems for cloud infrastructure hardware—covering schematics, PCB layouts, hardware specifications, and interface definitions. Support proof-of-concept work by producing initial designs in Cadence Allegro (alone or with external design firms), and review schematics, BOMs, component selections, and layout/design-rule compliance. Collaborate with internal engineering teams and ODM/OEM partners to implement, verify, debug, and troubleshoot designs at the board level.

Responsibilities

• Apply electrical engineering fundamentals to development of server, compute, storage, networking, accelerator, and management-module hardware.
• Own clearly defined board-level design tasks or subsystems with guidance from senior engineers; document designs using hardware specifications, block diagrams, and interface definitions.
• Create initial schematics and PCB layouts in Cadence Allegro for proof-of-concept development.
• Review schematics, BOMs, component selections, and design documentation; support PCB layout reviews (power, high-speed interfaces, connectivity, and design rules).
• Collaborate with internal electrical, mechanical, thermal, firmware, and system engineers and with external ODM/OEM partners to meet product goals for functionality, performance, quality, reliability, cost, and schedule.
• Support detailed design, board fabrication, EE verification test plan execution, and test report review with ODM EE/SI and power teams.
• Perform hardware bring-up, testing, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Execute hardware debugging: modify boards for measurement/probing, write and run test scripts, collect and analyze data, and document results.
• Operate lab equipment safely (oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers, digital multimeters, protocol analyzers, vector network analyzers, etc.).
• Follow engineering processes for design reviews, documentation control, component qualification, lab safety, issue tracking, and product release.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience with board-level design, implementation, bring-up, validation, and debugging.
• Strong foundation in analog and digital circuit design, including schematic capture and PCB layout principles.
• (Preferred) Exposure to high-speed or high-power designs.
• (Preferred) Familiarity with high-speed interfaces: PCIe, DDR, Ethernet.
• (Preferred) Familiarity with low-speed interfaces: SPI, I2C/I3C, SMBus, UART.
• (Preferred) Familiarity with Windows/Linux, BIOS/BMC firmware, hardware/software security, and datacenter operations at scale.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication; ability to take ownership and deliver results with guidance in a fast-paced learning environment.

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. The posting includes base pay ranges and references additional pay/benefit information via the corporate pay page.