Staff Hardware Engineer Job Description
Staff hardware engineer
provides platform and Custom design solutions for high speed cable products and processes required to manufacture these products.
Staff Hardware Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
The Engineer will be an FPGA designer on future high-speed Ethernet PCB's that are part of Ethernet test systems
Storage performance optimization from the hardware to the application
Monitor vendor roadmaps
Requires the ability to quickly learn, analyze and implement new interfaces and subsystems, break down complex issues and collaborate across cross-functional teams to resolve issues in a timely manner
Work with other Implementation CAD tool owners (PnR ) to resolve any inter-dependencies between the tools
Collaborate with team members from various disciplines like RTL, PnR, global timing, clocking, full chip integration as part of this task
Architect and realize product design that meets product requirements, design, process & safety guidelines customer expectations
Architect and realize new product concept design that meets customer requirements & expectations, design, process & safety guidelines
Conduct product verification against defined hardware specification, prepare design documentation and support the product development team
Develop engineering/product concepts that are innovative, high-quality, cost-appropriate, and satisfy all stakeholder (customer, manufacturing, material, ) needs and requirements throughout the full Product Realization value stream
Staff Hardware Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Staff Hardware Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: EMC, BICSI, EMI, CID, USB, ESD
Education for Staff Hardware Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the staff hardware engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Computer Science, Science, Computer Engineering, Technical, Electronics Engineering, Design, Information Systems, Technology
Skills for Staff Hardware Engineer
Desired skills for staff hardware engineer include:
SAS/SATA
USB
Ethernet
Hyperlinx
Power supplies
Analog design
High speed clock circuit design
High speed design methodologies and simulation
High speed simulation using HSpice
Implementation and measurements
Desired experience for staff hardware engineer includes:
Deep exposure to SSD, HDD, RAID, and SAS controllers
Strong knowledge of Linux OS, tools, and scripting
Experience with kernel and device driver development prefered
Strong knowledge of storage applications (Hadoop, MySQL, Ceph)
Minimal travel involved
Experience with one of the wireless standards such as WiFi, UWB or LTE is a strong plus
Staff Hardware Engineer Examples
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Staff Hardware Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of staff hardware engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for staff hardware engineer
- Work with Implementation CAD tool owners to help resolve any inter-dependencies between the tools
- Oversee tool customization required for their semi-custom/full-custom design environments
- Provide technical direction and mentoring to employees on the team to achieve successful project outcomes
- Draft detailed design verification test plan
- You will need to collaborate with team members from various disciplines like RTL, PnR, global timing, clocking, full chip integration as part of this task
- Track/coordinate parts for shipment, qualifications, reliability studies
- Coming up with Hardware architecture and design spec
- Closely work with electrical analysis team for an optimized design
- Specify and set-up test environments (equipment, fixtures)
- Technical oversight of Suppliers with design review responsibilities
Qualifications for staff hardware engineer
- Understand transmission line theory, cross talk, and low power architecture with ability to design, implement, and simulate system performance
- Availability for travel to international and domestic development sites and customer locations
- Experience with schematic capture (i.e Orcad) and PCB layout tools
- Knowledge of embedded processor design in-circuit emulation tools
- Knowledge of PCB layout is a plus
- Knowledge of system EMI is a plus
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Staff Hardware Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of staff hardware engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for staff hardware engineer
- Travel to subcontractors for reviews, troubleshooting, and acceptance testing
- Perform activities related to medium complexity integrated circuitry design for electronic equipment and systems
- Support on DfX related activities
- Perform electronic design of medium complexity equipment (drivers for motors, pumps, valves, transducers, sensors, LCDs) based on microcontrollers
- Perform electronic design starting from existing architectures or proposing new ones according to product requirements
- Perform Reverse Engineering on existing designs for cost optimization (Value engineering)
- Draw up error budgets, power budgets and detailed electrical report on implemented electronic design starting from components specs and labs measurements/characterizations
- Find cost optimal solutions in design implementation
- Work closely with other functional groups (project management, software, mechanical, quality, testing) following, as Electrical Engineer, the device life-cycle development steps up to the mass production
- Work in close collaboration with customer in any design development phase
Qualifications for staff hardware engineer
- Familiar with wireless technologies (CDMA, UMTS, EVDO, LTE, Wi-Fi, BT, NFC)
- Candidate will be responsible for configuring Rack routers, switches, to allow port forwarding, remote access
- Strong scripting skills are required (PERL, TCL, UNIX shell )
- Familiar with basic hardware structure
- Familiar with various communication solutions, like ZigBee, WiFi, Bluetooth, and
- Use OrCAD/Allegro for schematics/board design
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Our company is hiring for a staff hardware engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for staff hardware engineer
- Participates in design review
- Support for existing FPGA designs
- Lead technical efforts on implementing features that are requested by engineering or marketing
- Document and communicate design work that is implemented during the development process
- Plan and drive the verification of advanced digital processing blocks
- Drafting test plan, setup and coordinate regression, collect and analyze results
- Build coverage models, identify holes from coverage result and update test cases to improve coverage
- Enhance verification flow, further automate verification environment
- Determine architecture design, logic design, and system simulation
- Analyze equipment to establish operation data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results
Qualifications for staff hardware engineer
- Technical degree (BSEE / CS) or equivalent
- Master / Bachelor Degree in Electronics or Electrical & Electronics Engineering with a minimum of 1 years’ experience
- Diploma in Engineering with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience with be considered
- Ability and willingness to travel may be required to meet the needs of the business
- Knowledge of reliability engineering, EMC, safety, environmental pre-compliance test procedures and, regulatory agency requirements is a plus
- Experience in detailed design with schematic capture until supervising PCB layout using industry standard EDA tools (Cadence, Mentor Graphics, ) is considered a must have skill
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a staff hardware engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for staff hardware engineer
- Network with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise to benefit ASIC development
- The successful candidate will join a storage electronics development team working on HDD products
- Responsibilities include bring up and validation of the controllers (SoC/ASICs), working with the Firmware team to ensure that new hardware features are correctly implemented and getting to root cause for all electronic hardware failures during the staging phase for drive programs developed in the US
- SoC integration engineers have a system level knowledge of HDD products and the ability to use a structured approach to troubleshoot complex problems involving multiple engineering disciplines
- They also need to have excellent communication skill as they work closely with Design and Firmware engineers when getting to root cause for Electronic issues
- Familiar with working in a team using a structured approach such as Lean to solve problems
- Ability to provide clear and concise summaries of complex topics for upper management
- Create innovative low power hardware platforms for continuous glucose monitoring system
- Create schematics, BOMs and design documentation
- Drive PCB layout
Qualifications for staff hardware engineer
- Masters/Bachelor Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering with minimum of 1 years’ relevant work experience with expertise in Embedded hardware design or
- Diploma in Engineering with a minimum of 8 years working experience will be considered
- Experience in detailed design with schematic capture using industry standard EDA tools (Cadence, Mentor Graphics, ) and supervising PCB layout
- Experience in designing stable SMPS converter control loop
- Experience in battery charging system
- Experience in transducer front-end low noise signal conditioning and data conversion (Amplifier, Discreet filters, ADC/DAC)
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a staff hardware engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for staff hardware engineer
- Ownership of the design through all phases, including cross disciplines towards milestone closure
- Work with suppliers to ensure design manufacturability
- Create and execute hardware design verification protocols and schedules
- Interface with the firmware and test teams to ensure high quality product and all needs for HW debug are included (outside of operational requirements)
- End-to-end system level design of the platform including hardware, board, shell design development
- Hardware design and implementation of new or existing products which includes the specification and development of hardware for RF modules and subsystems such as high performance frequency synthesizers and up/down converters
- Hardware development of RF circuitry and associated control circuitry
- Development responsibilities include design and specification (which involves high-level design and detailed design), scheduling, implementation and coordination of tasks
- Provide technical guidance to other engineers and/or technicians
- Work with system architect to determine circuit board implementation details for system requirements of performance, reliability, mechanics, ease of use, and cost
Qualifications for staff hardware engineer
- Experience in thermal management
- Experience in using analog simulation tools
- Experience in using lab tools and test equipment such a digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzer and network analyzer
- Experience in design for test, manufacturability and reliability
- Experience in technical and/or project leadership skills including assignment delegation, coaching, influencing skills, and customer engagement will be considered for senior position
- Experience in medical devices product development is an added advantage