Senior Lead SI Test Engineer

General Overview

Functional Area:  Engineering        
Career Stream:  Design Engineering Hardware    
SAP Short Name:  SLE-ENG-DHW
Job Level:  Level 09
IC/MGR: Individual Contributor        
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect    

Summary

As a Signal Integrity Test and Validation Engineer, you will be part of an exciting team developing, testing, and delivering products for servers/storages/enterprise products. You major duties will be to serve as the hardware validation, verification and analysis for products and provide the support to external and internal customers, team members, and other persons during R&D phase.

Detailed Description

• 1. Main customer contact window for SI/PI test for data center Switches, servers and storages.
• 2. Lead a project from SI test perspective. Arrange and review SI test work according to project needs.
• 3. Good team work whether when leading a project or leading a task in a project.
• 4. Create Signal Integrity Test and Validation Plan for servers/storages/enterprise platform in R&D phase, including resource allocations, test schedule assumptions, and test items scope.
• 5. Implement specific test items in test plan with schedule. Flexible adjustment should be made based on issue occurring and debugging.
• 6. Report test/validation execution progress and issues to the R&D team and track the issues from creation to closure.
• 7. Cooperate with R&D team and other test engineers on debugging, failure analysis and fixing issues discovered during test.
• 8. Evaluate and develop test methodology to reduce test time and increase test coverage. 

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• 1. 7 year's minimum experience in hardware board level testing with related knowledge.
• 2. In-depth understanding of PC/Server/Storage/Switch structure concepts, especially from electrical aspect.
• 3. Working knowledge of signal integrity theory.
• 4. Working knowledge of validation of major buses including Memory, LAN, USB, SATA, SAS, PCI Express, 112G/224G SerDes, I2C and SPI etc.
• 5. Proficiency in analyzing and categorizing signal groups.
• 6. Good understanding of the principles and basic structures of measuring instruments such as oscilloscopes, PNA, waveform generators and Spectrum Analyzer etc.
• 7. Strong technical problem solving skills (good mastery on bus protocols and specifications).
• 8. Strong team work spirit, team leader preferred.
• 9. Excellent bilingual (Chinese & English) written and verbal communication skills required.
• 10. Good ability in multi-task and handling a large number of tasks at once. 

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. 
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Experience

• 6 to 8 years in a similar role or industry.

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.