Hardware Systems Design Engineer - Circuit Board

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Secaucus, NJ · Engineering

This role is for a Hardware Systems Design Engineer focused on circuit board design for cloud compute server systems. The engineer will lead development from concept to production, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure product quality, performance, and schedule.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the development of system-level architectures and board-level implementations
  2. Prepare and oversee specifications, BOM, design, and schematic entry
  3. Supervise design work by junior engineers and external suppliers
  4. Make critical decisions related to PCB layout guidelines and supervise Layout Engineers
  5. Work hands on in system bring-up and testing, and system-level and board-level debugging

Skills

Required

  • Electrical Engineering
  • analog and digital design
  • high-speed serial interface design
  • high-frequency PCB layout design
  • debugging skills for system-level and board-level designs including signal integrity issues
  • server CPU and GPU system architectures
  • implement and debug high-speed serial and parallel interfaces (SAS/SATA, PCIe, USB, backplane Ethernet, DDR, etc.)
  • feature and cost trade-off analysis
  • create detailed specifications and design guides
  • leadership and communication skills

Nice to have

  • power distribution techniques