Electrical Engineer (HW Design)

Location Malaysia
Job reference 170629
Salary 12000.0
Lead Hardware Engineer

Detailed Description

The successful candidate will be a self-starter who likes to take responsibility and works best with little supervision. Likes to perform a variety of tasks and have the ability to handle multiple priorities and has previously performed in a similar position. This is a 'hands-on' role requiring a strong technical background and product development experience.

Duties
  • Identify technical issues, troubleshoot and resolve them by coordinating with R&D, Manufacturing and Field teams
  • Participate in customer technical meetings and prepare training programs for internal subordinates.
  • Hardware validation of Networking, Storage, Server products against customer’s infield issues, requirements and Mfg. issues during NPI or RMA
  • System validation including DVT (Design Validation Trial), SPIT (Signal, Power, Integrity & Timing) environmental & regulatory approval.
  • Qualify alternative components for compatibility, cost effectiveness and benchmarking
  • Support Manufacturing Engineering and Test Engineers on trouble shooting and resolving technical issues and root cause analysis
  • Work with software teams to identify root cause of system failure
  • Ability to install software such as Linux based Operating Systems, ONIE, BIOS, BMC, SES
  • Proficient in using various test and measurement equipment including but not limited to Oscilloscope, Impedance analyzer, Power meter, Signal analyzer, Spectrum Background

Candidates should have 8+ years' experience in either Network, Storage or Server products.

Candidates should have the following essential qualifications and experience:
  • Atleast BEng. (Hons.) in Electronics or similar
  • Strong electrical design and debug skills required
  • Familiar with PCIe, NVMe, SAS, SATA, I2C, SPI, DDR buses
  • SDRAM timing and integrity analysis for clocks, strobes, S&H, Power bounce, temp stability
  • Hands-on design knowledge of latest peripheral chipsets for Gigabit Ethernet, SCSI, SATA, SAS, USB, Ethernet, & PCI cards etc.
  • High performance RISC / X86 CPUs and architecture including Intel, AMD, MRVL
  • Proficient in using various test and measurement equipment including but not limited to Oscilloscope, Impedance analyzer, Power meter, Signal analyzer, Spectrum analyzer
  • Qualify alternative components for compatibility, cost effectiveness and benchmarking
  • System validation including DVT (Design Validation Trial), SPIT (Signal, Power, Integrity & Timing) environmental & regulatory approval.
  • Work with software teams to identify root cause of system failure
  • Working knowledge of windows & Linux configuration, installation procedure, network configuration, driver configuration etc.
  • Working knowledge of Diag, ONIE, BIOS, BMC, Linux and Windows operating systems

Knowledge of the following would be desirable:
  • Experience of working in medium sized multidisciplinary development teams
  • Ethernet Switches, Server, Storage products
  • Orcad Schematics & Allegro PCB layout tools

Personal Attributes

The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual capable of working with a minimum level of supervision in a dynamic team environment. Good interpersonal skills. Be able to communicate effectively (both verbal and written) with members of other teams, departments and clients; a high degree of liaison is needed. Mandarin knowledge is desirable.