What are the responsibilities and job description for the High-Speed Board Design Engineer position at HatchPros?
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Onsite
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Job Description
We are looking for a dedicated, self-driven High-Speed Board Design Engineer to contribute to the development of our next-generation Solid State Drive (SSD) products. This role requires extensive experience in hardware architecture, design, and signal integrity for high-speed systems. The successful candidate will have deep knowledge of memory device technologies, high-speed interfaces, and hands-on experience with simulation and measurement tools.
Responsibilities
Onsite
U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder
Job Description
We are looking for a dedicated, self-driven High-Speed Board Design Engineer to contribute to the development of our next-generation Solid State Drive (SSD) products. This role requires extensive experience in hardware architecture, design, and signal integrity for high-speed systems. The successful candidate will have deep knowledge of memory device technologies, high-speed interfaces, and hands-on experience with simulation and measurement tools.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure SSD designs meet firmware, diagnostic, and system requirements.
- Participate in architecture definition, design reviews, and requirements generation.
- Perform Signal Integrity (SI) measurements (TDR, TDT, crosstalk, jitter, eye pattern, power plane noise) to validate SI and Power Integrity (PI) designs.
- Document and share results with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Simulate and analyze design proposals, providing optimization recommendations to design engineers.
- Design hardware with a focus on manufacturability, DFx considerations, and cost-efficiency.
- Oversee hardware design through worst-case analysis, simulations, schematic capture, and de-rating.
- Define PCB stack-ups, select via technologies, manage part placement, set design constraints, and conduct SI/PI analysis.
- Actively work with team members during design, verification, and RMA processes.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to other hardware engineers on the team.
- Highly motivated and results-oriented, with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Solid foundation in transmission line fundamentals, time-domain, and frequency-domain concepts.
- Proficiency in PCB design for high-speed signals, power routing, EMI/ESD protection, and signal integrity (including SerDes).
- Demonstrated creativity in solving complex SI challenges.
- Skilled in SPICE and IBIS simulations, with experience in Hspice.
- Practical experience with design and simulation tools, including:
- Cadence Sigrity and Allegro Power-Aware SI
- Mentor Graphics HyperLynx
- Hands-on lab experience with high-bandwidth measurement tools:
- Teledyne Lecroy SDA820Zi-B Oscilloscope
- Agilent MSO-X 92004A Oscilloscope
- Experience with PCIe compliance equipment:
- Teledyne Lecroy PER-R008-S01-X Protocol Aware Bit Error Rate Tester
- Keysight J-BERT M8041A
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (required); Master’s degree preferred.
- 10 years of relevant high-speed board design experience.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and communication skills, both written and verbal.
