Staff Electrical Design Engineer
Lightmatter · Mountain View, CA · 1 mo ago
HybridEngineering$400/hrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the system architect and technical leads to define system-level hardware requirements and specs
- Electrical design of power, memory, and interconnect circuits, working in both the analog and digital domains
- Identify electrical and optical components to fit the application based on specifications provided by the IC and photonics engineering teams
- Develop conceptual designs, physical modeling, and simulations of chip-modules and systems
- Oversee and review PCB layout designs, providing complete and detailed electrical constraint rules
- Ensure the board and system is manufacturable to the latest technologies with high yield and robustness
- Qualify chip and system electrical properties
- Perform laboratory validation of boards and systems
- Lead integration with mechanical, software, IC, and other related teams
- Support contract manufacturing during prototype and production phase to resolve any issues
- Work with component vendors and other supply partners
- Research new components, processes, and technologies to meet product goals
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
- 8+ years of related experience in system-level electrical design, having successfully taken several products from concept to production
- Proficient in schematic design using Cadence, Mentor, or Altium tool set (Altium preferred)
- In-depth knowledge on VRMs, high speed SERDES, CPUs and various interfaces/protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, QSPI, I3C, I2C, etc
- 5+ years of experience in lab experimentation, non-intrusive circuit debugging, and leading cross-functional integration teams
- Experience in working with thermal solutions for integrated circuits and their board level systems
- Familiar with Product Lifecycle Management tools, e.g. Oracle Agile, Arena, or Omnify PLM with an understanding of BOM and ECO management
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing electrical systems for networking or similar industries
- Knowledge of integrated circuit layout, and designing a carrier PCBA for it
- Familiarity with Systems Engineering principles
- Familiarity with 3D Mechanical CAD tools, e.g. Solidworks or AutoCAD
Pay
$186,000 USD - $250,000 USD
Schedule
Flexible, hybrid workplace model