What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hardware Engineer 1 position at MACOM?
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 65 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.
Hardware Engineer 1
Job Description:
The Hardware Engineer 1 will design, develop, and document interconnect solutions for internal hardware needs as well as for customer hardware reference designs; will identify techniques and methodologies for modeling and measurement of devices and systems; and will actively participate in the evaluations of these. The Hardware Engineer I 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 through hand-off to validation and application engineering for the production launch. This encompasses efforts to find limits of product performance as well as debugging.
The key responsibilities will include:
EEO:
MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.
Reasonable Accommodation:
MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process, please call 1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number, and the position title and location in which you are interested, and the nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.
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 65 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.
Hardware Engineer 1
Job Description:
The Hardware Engineer 1 will design, develop, and document interconnect solutions for internal hardware needs as well as for customer hardware reference designs; will identify techniques and methodologies for modeling and measurement of devices and systems; and will actively participate in the evaluations of these. The Hardware Engineer I 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 through hand-off to validation and application engineering for the production launch. This encompasses efforts to find limits of product performance as well as debugging.
The key responsibilities will include:
- Collect inputs from users of the PCB, including but not limited to, validation engineer, product engineer, IC design engineer, SI Engineer etc.;
- Draft a BRD (Board Required Document) / Block Diagram to clearly define what is expected of the board & review it.
- Consult with designers, application engineers for component selection and circuit around the device under test;
- Design certain circuits, e.g. Power management circuit, I2C/SPI control circuit, current mirrors and filters in critical data paths.
- Capture schematic using CAD tool such as xDxDesigner.
- CAD Library maintenance support and Bill of Material Generation (BOM).
- Layout the board using PADS with high speed trace routing for Optical frequencies.
- Documentation for PCB fabrication and work with PCB vendors to resolve issues during manufacturing.
- Prepare Bonding Diagram for High speed Optical interface and Chip on Board devices.
- Create high speed board design rules for automation and to speed up the Layout design time and effort.
- Verification of power circuit, low speed communication and interconnections between microcontroller and peripherals.
- Debug if certain feature does not work and contribute in board bring up.
- BSEE with some experience/knowledge in schematic capture, PCB Design and layout using Mentor Tools (xDxDesigner, PADS, Hyper Lynx)
- Able to work independently and as a team player.
- Experience with CAD Library creation/maintenance is a plus.
- Knowledge on Board Design for manufacturing (DFM), PCB Fab Process is a plus.
- Knowledge on firmware development in C for ARM controllers is a plus.
EEO:
MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.
Reasonable Accommodation:
MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process, please call 1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number, and the position title and location in which you are interested, and the nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.
Salary : $59,500 - $96,000
