Board Hardware Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Board Hardware Engineer

Description

The Board Hardware Engineer acts as a project lead engineer working with the board architect to design future board hardware. The role translates product requirements into electronic schematic information, coordinates with component, mechanical, SI, firmware, and validation teams, and supports customer issues as needed. The engineer creates schematics and functional specifications and interfaces with the firmware team during design bring-up.

Responsibilities

• Interpret product requirements into electronic schematic information

• Select and approve components with component engineering

• Write functional specifications and unit test plans

• Use the company online document control system

• Manage and manipulate the Bill of Materials (BOM)

• Work with physical design teams to determine component placement and routing constraints

• Perform pre- and post-simulation of the board design

• Coordinate multiple assignments and keep marketing and management informed of progress and blockers

• Interface with contracted design and test services for selected project assignments

• Support new and existing designs through engineering change orders and problem debugging

• Ensure the overall solution meets requested parameters across engineering teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (or equivalent)

• 5+ years of related experience with PCB design and development

• Experience with high-speed PCB design

• Experience designing and laying out DC/DC regulator circuits

• Board bring-up experience using oscilloscopes, digital multi-meters, and soldering tools

• Working knowledge of Cadence-Allegro System Capture and PCB Editor

• Experience with simulation tools: Cadence Sigrity PowerDC and OptimizePI

• Experience with LTSPICE/PSPICE

• Familiarity with bus protocols: DDR4, PCIe, UART, I2C, SPI, USB

• Proficiency with MS Office (Excel, Word, Visio) and Google (Sheets, Docs)

• English fluency to interact with peers, management, marketing, and customers

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus

• Competitive new-hire equity grant and annual equity awards

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• 401(K) with company matching

• ESPP

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Company-paid holidays

• Paid sick leave and vacation time

• Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence per applicable laws