Hardware Engineer 2

Company Overview :

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Click here to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status or veteran status or any other legally protected status.

Job Title : Hardware Engineer 2

Key Responsibilities :

• The Hardware Engineer 2 designs, develops, and documents interconnect solutions for internal hardware needs as well as for customer hardware reference designs, identifies techniques and methodologies for measurement of devices and systems and actively participates in the evaluations of these.
• Drives feasibility analyses at onset of PCB (printed circuit board) definition phase, evaluates and specifies electrical characteristics and performance of the PCB to determine compliance to appropriate regulating standards, and takes cradle-to-grave ownership of PCB according to requirements
• Collects inputs from users of the PCB, including but not limited to, validation engineer, product engineer, IC design engineer, signal integrity engineer etc.
• Drafts a BRD (Board Required Document) / Block Diagram to clearly define what is expected of the board & review it.
• Consults with designers, application engineers for component selection and circuit around the device under test.
• Designs circuits as required
• Captures schematic using EDA tool such as xDxDesigner.
• Creates electrical symbols and layout footprints for new components.
• Creates Bill of Material (BOM).
• Helps maintain CAD Library
• Creates layout of the board using EDA tools
• Interacts with external vendors as necessary.
• Performs Power Integrity of assigned boards using PI Analysis tools such as HyperLynx Power Integrity.
• Creates documentation for PCB fabrication and work with PCB vendors to resolve issues during manufacturing.
• Prepares Bonding Diagram for high-speed Optical interface and Chip on Board devices.
• Creates high-speed board design rules for automation and to speed up the Layout design time and effort.
• Organizes and drives board design reviews for assigned projects.
• Drives PCB verification and debug (board bring-up)

Key Competencies & Skills required :

Required Qualifications and Experience :

The Salary Range for this position is $70,000 - $113,000 . Actualsalary offered to candidate will depend on several factors, including but notlimited to, work location, relevant candidates' experience, education, andspecific knowledge, skills, and abilities.

EEO :

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverseworkforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant onthe basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation,national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, militaryservice, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation :

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonableaccommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. Ifyou have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation withrespect to any part of the application process, please call +1-978-656-2500 oremail HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number and the position titleand location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed,and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request orneed reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions oftheir jobs.