Hardware Design and Test Engineer

Job Title : Hardware Design and Test Engineer

Job Type : Long term Contract

Duration : 12+ months

Location : Milpitas CA

Job Description :

10 years of relevant experience as a Hardware design and test engineer.

Bachelor s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or equivalent.

Excellent problem-solving / debugging skills and attention to detail.

Excellent written and oral communication.

Active involvement in all phases of an embedded product development ( Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Prototyping, Documentation and Testing)

Should be an expert in selecting components meeting cost, functionality, performance, regulatory and non-functional requirements such as long-term availability, size etc.

Independently develop micro-controller and micro-processor-based designs with peripherals such as ADCs, DACs, storage, Ethernet PHYs etc

Experience in / Knowledge of interfaces such as DDR3 / 4 / 5, PCIe Gen4 or higher, SATA, USB3.0 / 4.0, Ethernet, Display interfaces, Audio interfaces, SPI, I2C etc

Proficient in developing Schematics using Cadence OrCAD tool

Should be able to prepare the PCB layout guidelines and review the PCB layout using Cadence Allegro tool

Experience in designing multi-layer PCBs considering EMI / EMC and signal integrity aspects

Perform board bring-up tests, functional tests, and DVT

Experience with hardware testing and debugging tools (e.g., Power Supply, Multimeter, Oscilloscopes, Logic analysers etc).

Good to have :

Conduct pre-compliance screening tests for EMI / EMC / Safety etc at third party labs

Perform reliability analysis such DFMEA, MTBF prediction, HALT testing, ESS testing etc

Experience in high-speed designs (interfaces such as PCIe Gen 5 / 6, USB4.x, DDR5, 10G / 100G Ethernet etc)

Signal Integrity testing, compliance testing