SSD Hardware Engineer 5
Location: Longmont, CO
Pay range: $88/hr. - $94/hr.
Contract: 12 Months
Description
Seeking a self-motivated, team-oriented board design engineer to develop
next generation Solid State Drive (SSD) products. This position requires
experience in hardware architecture, design, signal integrity and power
supply design. This would include modeling and simulation for high speed
signaling implementations and power supply design including power distribution
network (PDN) simulations. A successful candidate will have a good working
knowledge of: state of the art memory device technologies, interfaces such
as SATA, SAS, PCIe Gen 3&4, ONFI and implementation techniques
required for high-speed interfaces. In addition, this candidate will have a
good working knowledge of Buck and boost power supply designs. Experience with
PCB design tools (Cadence PCB design and analysis, including Si/Pi).
Expertise in the design for optimum signal and power integrity as well as
hands
Duties and Responsibilities
* Interface in cross functional teams to ensure the design meets all
firmware, diagnostic and system level requirements.
* Participate in architecture definition, design reviews, requirements
generation of SSD products.
* Perform basic Signal and power integrity measurements
* Document and communicate results with cross functional counterparts.
* Simulate and analyze design proposals, review results and provide
recommendations on optimal design practices to other design engineers.
* Experienced in designing hardware for large scale manufacture, including
DFx and low cost considerations
* Hardware design, worst-case analysis, simulations, capture
schematic, de-rating and assumes complete ownership of the SSD hardware thru
the product lifecycle.
* PCB back-end process: defining stack-up and via technologies, part
placement, setting design constraints, signal integrity and power
integrity analysis
* Works proactively with cross functional team members during design,
verification as well as on RMAs
Critical Skills
* Self-motivated. Desire to take on challenges. Result-driven and details
oriented.
* Good interpersonal and communication skills are a must.
* Good in transmission line fundamentals. Understand the fundamentals of
time-domain vs. frequency-domain.
* In depth knowledge in circuit designs, as well as semiconductor design.
* Good PCB design experience on high speed signals routing guideline and
review, power copper routing and review, design for EMI/ESD protection.
* Design for signal integrity, including SerDes, power and interconnect.
* Develops solutions to complex technical problems, which require ingenuity
and creativity.
* Analog design using simulation e.g. SPICE (or equivalent).
* Practical experience with design tools or equivalent:
- Cadence Sigrity, Allegro Power-Aware SI
- Mentor Graphics HyperLynx
* Practical lab SI analysis experience using equipment or equivalent:
- High-bandwidth measurements (20-35GHz) via:
o Teledyne Lecroy SDA820Zi-B Oscilloscope
o Agilent MSO-X 92004A Oscilloscope
- PCIe Compliance equipment (requires also using one of the following test
equipment)
o Teledyne Lecroy PER-R008-S01-X Protocol Aware Bit Error Rate Tester
o Keysight J-BERT M8041A # Protocol Aware Bit Error Rate Tester
Qualification Requirements
* BS in Electrical Engineering required; MS in Electrical Engineering is
preferred
* Good written and verbal communication
* Good problem-solving skills
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Flux is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity in our workplace.
We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, sex,
age, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability,
pregnancy, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic
information or sexual orientation.