Job Description

DESIGN ENGINEER IV - COMPUTER HARDWARE INDUSTRY Location: Milpitas, CA Pay Rate: $89/hr Start Date: ASAP 5 Month Contract Role (Potential for Extension or Conversion) Job Category: Engineering

Our client is seeking an "Hardware Board Design Engineer IV" with a passion for technology and joining the world's leading storage solutions provider who is all about delivering the possibilities of data. We are looking for a strong hardware board design engineer to work on next generation enterprise SSD Development Platforms. The candidate must be a highly motivated self-starter who will thrive in this dynamic, cutting-edge environment.  A fundamental part of our strategy is having desirable and powerful Development hardware that enable the experiences enterprise customers want, and elicit their excitement. Creating these platforms involves a close partnership between hardware and Firmware engineers, ASIC designers, and Program team. Duties:

• You are responsible for providing technical leadership in all facets of Board hardware development, focused on Hardware design, testing, validation and production support.
• You will work with architects and system engineers to test complex digital and analog circuit blocks and an overall FPGA Development Platform for SSD controllers.
• You will implement or provide leadership to lab team whose tasks will include board bring-up, EVT/DVT testing, and hardware debug.
• You will also participate in documentation and defining and implementing process for various stages of the development and rack deployment.

Job Requirement:

• Must have great EE fundamentals, FPGA design and analog design and SI experience to support everyday design/validation challenges
• Test and validate signal integrity of interfaces, clocks and peripheral interfaces.
• Define interfaces for FPGA partitioning, design flexible system clocking and reset scheme based on controller specification
• Define Hardware system architecture of new platforms and perform concept review with development teams
• Schematics design, manage high density PCB layout design, prototype bring-up and debugging.
• Test and validate NAND, DDR4, PCIe, processors.
• Conduct and review EVT and DVT of different parts of the design and at system level.
• Ability to communicate with other groups such as Architecture group, ASIC design, FPGA design, Firmware team, program management.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, or related technical degree is required.
• Minimum 8-10 years’ experience in board design at component, board, and system levels.
• Must have experience with schematic capture software (OrCAD) and Layout (Allegro).
• Must have clear understanding of fundamentals for DFT and DFM.
• Experience in high speed interface design ( DDR-4, PCIe, SAS, SATA etc.).
• Practical experience in hardware debug - use of test equipment (Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Chipscope etc.).
• Must have HW experience designing high density FPGA boards.
• Must have hands-on experience in prototype bring-up and debugging, functional verification and hardware support/sustenance.
• Experience in small embedded systems, and basic processor and DRAM bringup.

Desired:

• Experience with development platforms is a definite plus.
• Basic software development experience using C and/or Linux (Perl/Shell scripting) is a plus.
• Experience with Synplify Premier, Identify debugger, Xilinx Vivado, Xilinx ILA, ARM ICE debuggers.
• High level RTL design experience for FPGAs is definitely a plus.

Please submit your resume in Word or PDF version to be considered.

Company Description

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