Hardware Engineer

Overview

Design and deliver end-to-end electrical hardware for Routers and Ethernet Switches used in hyperscale data centres for AI, service providers and enterprise networks. Hybrid role based in Bengaluru, India.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end responsibility for designing and delivering the product.
• Work with the PLM team to understand market requirements and define architecture details.
• Define architecture and product descriptions, and author hardware functional specifications.
• Complete the hardware design flow: schematic entry, component selection, and coordination with eCAD, PCB layout, SI, power, mechanical, thermal and FPGA teams.
• Specify the PCB stack and work with PCB vendors, supply chain and manufacturing teams.
• Work with the CM and/or ODM to take the product through its full lifecycle from prototype to production.
• Perform hardware bring-up and testing, supporting EDVT, MDVT, EMC, HALT, SI and IEEE test teams.
• Work closely with the diagnostic software team for design validation and manufacturing testing.
• Work with software and software test teams to debug complex system issues.
• Develop organization-wide architectures and methodologies for electrical hardware design across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies, innovations and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with the technology roadmap and business value.
• Review and evaluate designs and project activities for compliance with technology and development guidelines and standards.
• Influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners and industry standards groups.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Typically 6+ years of experience.
• Experience using electrical design tools and software packages.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience designing hardware using high-speed serial interfaces at 50G and 100G with NRZ and PAM4.
• Experience with x86 CPU architecture.
• Experience designing high layer count boards (18+ layers) including 50G+ signals and advanced PCB manufacturing technologies.
• Experience working with multi-phase DC/DC converters for high-current, high-transient loads.
• Experience working with high-speed interfaces such as DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR, PCIe Gen3, PCIe Gen4 and NVMe SSD.
• Experience in overall architecture of electronic hardware for products and solutions.
• Experience designing and integrating electronic components, integrated circuitry and algorithms into overall architecture.
• Evaluating, proposing and selecting empirical analysis, modeling and testing methodologies to validate component, circuit and hardware designs and thermal/emissions management.
• History of innovation with multiple patents in the field of electronics packaging.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery of English and the local language.
• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at business unit and executive levels.

Details

• Hybrid role: on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
• Location: Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India.
• Job level: TCP_03; job family: Engineering.