Staff Engineer, Hardware Design

General Overview

Job Title:  Staff Engineer, Hardware Design
Functional Area:  Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream:  Design Engineering Hardware (DHW)
Role:  Staff Engineer (SEN)
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Summary

Job Overview:

1. This job is expected to build system architecture for Networking, Server & Storage products:
2. Talk with the external and the front end team, understand market/customer requirements to define system architecture for Networking, Server & Storage products.

Detailed Description

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Lead technical proposal for customer RFQs
2. Define white box products’ architecture and elaborate detail requirements
3. Following technology trend and contribute to product roadmap definition.
4. Lead system level building blocks
5. Consultant and lead complex issue debug and troubleshooting;

Experience:

1. 10+ years electrical design experience.
2. Familiar with Rack-mounted Networking, Server & Storage product architecture.
3. Familiar with Intel and AMD x86 platform
4. Familiar with some mainstream chipsets or solutions such as PCIe switch, SAS expander, Ethernet controller
5. Advanced understanding of relevant technologies, specifically Edge Computing, NVMEoF, DDR4/5, PCIe Gen3/4/5, 100G/200G Ethernet.
6. Understand high-speed design, PAM56G,112G&224G Serders design experience is highly recognized.   
7. Advanced understanding of vendor products and competitor's offerings.
8. Knowledge on software and FPGA/CPLD, understand software interface; familiar with FPGA and protocol will be a plus.
9. Has good experience in multi-layer PCB design

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Refer to technical skills below

Physical Demands

• General Skills, Knowledge, Competencies:

• Understand key components and familiar with major suppliers
• Has good insight on different system solutions and sense on cost.
• Understand product, mechanical, thermal, signal integrity, compliance requirement and software interface. Can balance different functions.
• Good communication skills to lead team on technical proposal and system definition.
• Excellent communication skills. Must have team work spirit.
•  Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills;

Typical Experience

• 7 to 10 years of related experience;Experience in similar job roles

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.