THE ROLE: We are seeking an experienced Hardware Design Engineer to join our Data Center Systems Engineering team and help develop the next generation of high-performance GPU platforms for AI and data center applications.
In this role, you will have significant technical ownership, from system architecture and board design through layout, bring-up, validation, and production readiness. You will work on complex, high-performance hardware and collaborate closely with silicon architecture, signal integrity, power, mechanical, firmware, manufacturing, validation, and program management teams.
This is a highly visible role in a fast-paced engineering environment, offering the opportunity to solve challenging hardware problems and directly influence future AI infrastructure.
THE PERSON:We are looking for a self-driven, collaborative, and technically strong hardware engineer who enjoys solving complex problems and taking ownership from concept through successful hardware bring-up.
The ideal candidate has strong board-level design experience and professional proficiency with the Cadence design environment, along with a solid understanding of computer architecture, high-speed interfaces, signal integrity, power delivery, and system-level hardware design.
You should be comfortable working in an environment where requirements evolve quickly and priorities can change. Strong communication, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills are essential, along with the ability to make sound engineering decisions and drive designs to closure.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:- Lead and contribute to the development of Data Center GPU systems and accelerator cards, from architecture through production readiness.
- Partner with silicon architecture teams to define system architecture, platform requirements, interfaces, and technical product specifications.
- Drive board-level electrical design, including schematic development, component selection, design reviews, and design verification.
- Work with program management and engineering teams to establish development schedules, milestones, dependencies, and technical deliverables.
- Collaborate with component and technology vendors on circuit implementation, component selection, technical reviews, and issue resolution.
- Oversee PCB layout and partner with Signal Integrity and Power Integrity teams to implement high-speed routing requirements, power-delivery solutions, and design constraints.
- Work with manufacturing, validation, and test teams to ensure robust Design for Manufacturing and Design for Test implementation.
- Perform or drive component derating, design-margin analysis, and board-level verification.
- Plan and lead board bring-up, hardware validation, root-cause analysis, and complex system debugging.
- Use oscilloscopes and other laboratory instrumentation to characterize and debug high-speed interfaces, power systems, and board-level hardware.
- Provide technical leadership during design reviews and drive engineering issues to clear, timely resolution.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:- Hands-on design experience with Data Center GPU, accelerator, server, or other high-performance compute platforms.
- Understanding of modern AI data center rack architecture, including compute, networking, management, power, and system-level building blocks.
- Strong experience with Cadence schematic capture, PCB design, and related design and constraint-management tools.
- Experience designing and debugging high-speed interfaces such as PCI Express, XGMI, LPDDR, and other multi-gigabit SerDes technologies.
- Strong knowledge of high-speed PCB design, signal integrity, PHY architecture, transmitter equalization, receiver signal processing, channel analysis, and eye-diagram measurements.
- Experience working with power-delivery networks, voltage regulation, sequencing, telemetry, and board-level power architectures.
- Familiarity with platform-management technologies and firmware interfaces such as Redfish and system telemetry.
- Experience developing or integrating FPGA-based subsystems, including RTL, FPGA configuration, validation, and test environments.
- Experience with BOM management, component lifecycle management, and engineering change processes.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex hardware debugging using digital oscilloscopes and other common electrical laboratory equipment.
- Several years of hands-on hardware design and product-development experience, preferably involving complex multilayer PCB systems.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
LOCATION: Austin, TX
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