Hardware Engineer - Intern
About The Position
MACOM is hiring a Hardware Engineer Intern for a 12-week internship. Each intern receives an individual, well-defined project with outcome goals, hands-on experience, training and ongoing supervision, and formal written feedback. Interns are invited to attend a webinar series and networking and social events, and to present their project successes and pitfalls at a poster session. The intern may help define PCB board requirements, design schematics, lay out boards, prepare fabrication materials, and test and debug designs. Work includes gathering user input and reviewing board requirements with users, creating component symbols and decals, selecting components, capturing schematics, assisting with board layout and costed bills of materials, maintaining the components database, and verifying power circuits and low-speed communications.
Requirements
- Background in Electrical Engineering.
- Familiarity with office productivity tools such as Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Basic knowledge of CAD tools and procedures used for PCB design and fabrication.
Responsibilities
- Collect input from PCB users, including validation engineers, product engineers, and IC design engineers.
- Assist the responsible Hardware Engineer in defining a Board Requirements Document (BRD) and review it with users to obtain sign-off.
- Create symbols for new components.
- Consult with designers and application engineers about circuits around the device under test.
- Select components and design circuits, such as power-management, I2C, and SPI control circuits.
- Capture schematics using Mentor’s xDX Designer.
- Create component decals using AutoCAD and Mentor’s PADS.
- Assist the responsible Hardware Engineer with board layout using Mentor’s PADS.
- Prepare documents for PCB fabrication.
- Assist the responsible Hardware Engineer in creating a costed Bill of Materials.
- Update the components database as required.
- Verify power circuits and low-speed communication in the lab.
- Debug the design.
- Attend and present project successes and pitfalls at the intern poster session.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
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