Title : Hardware Design and Test Engineer
Location : Milpitas CA (fully onsite)
Job Type : Contract
Job Description :
- 10 to 15 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 labsPerform reliability analysis such DFMEA, MTBF prediction, HALT testing, ESS testing etcExperience in high-speed designs (interfaces such as PCIe Gen 5 / 6, USB4.x, DDR5, 10G / 100G Ethernet etc)Signal Integrity testing, compliance testing