Senior Staff Engineer, Power Design

Summary

The Staff Engineer, Electrical Design - Power develops new electrical systems/circuits for various applications. You will research system ideas and draw up plans for these systems, and capture them in schematics and system specifications. Other responsibilities will be testing, simulation, validating and qualifying the systems and make adjustments as needed. You will need to provide support throughout the manufacturing of the electrical systems that have been designed.  The role will work in cross functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development.  You will enhance designs with feedback from reviews in areas such as manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design and simulations.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Work with the guidance and support from Sr. Staff and Principal-level engineers
• Design, develop and implement technical solutions for complex projects. Participate in project planning and scheduling.
• Propose innovative solutions for performance, reliability, and features of system or product.
• Provides technical leadership and direction to a global team of engineers.
• Reviews and interprets customer specifications and may act as primary customer contact.
• Analyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions. Develop and lead deployment strategies and plans.
• Lead and manage schematic design, Bills of material, power tree, drawings, board layout, and cross-functional design reviews
• Lead power bring-up, debugging, and support for manufacturing assembly, and deployment
• Lead relationships with key vendors and partners.
• Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations, and share within team
• Liaison with suppliers, customers, contractors, and other internal teams.
• Analyze and create reports and documentation of specifications, design, testing, debugging, and etc.
• May be a recognized expert (go to person) in one or more technical areas.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Experienced in power design of single/multi-phase DC/DC converter, point-of-load converter, LDO, MOSFETs, magnetics, hot-swap circuitry of how-swap controller, load switches, current sense circuit and amplifier, and etc
• Experienced in designing power systems for networking, compute, or storage products
• Experienced in high-current, low-voltage power subsystems for CPU, GPU, ASIC, SoC, and FPGA
• Experienced in PCB stack-up, power planes, and tools used to simulate voltage gradients
• Familiar with schematic capture and CAD layout tools or equivalent ones
• Proficient with circuit simulation tools such as SIMPLIS, PSPICE, and LTSPICE, or equivalent tools
• Knowledge of high-density power modules and Vertical Power Delivery (Knowledge on Integrated Voltage Regulator (IVR) is a plus)
• Experienced with power integrity tools such as PowerDC or equivalent and board level evaluation
• Experienced with design and troubleshooting of power management interfaces such as PMBus, AVS, SVID and SVI2/3.
• Experienced with defining specifications and validation of power connectors, cable assemblies and fuses
• Familiar with NPI hardware design and deployment cycle
• Experienced with development of test automation for power validation that is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to present to various audiences effectively

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

• 7+ years' of related experience

Typical Education

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

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Salary

$128,000 - 170,000 USD/year

The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

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.