Hardware Engineer

Supermicro•San Jose, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Supermicro is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us. We’re hiring a hands-on Hardware Engineer to support server products across our production lines and customer data centers. You will start embedded at production to learn our processes, build and maintain test fixtures, execute testing, and triage issues with design, manufacturing, and customers. As you ramp, you’ll expand into system bring-up assistance and debugging. We are looking for a self-starter, motivated and talented engineer who has passion for hardware engineering. Familiarity with server hardware is a plus.

Requirements

BS in Engineering with 1+ years in FAE, validation, NPI, or test/fixture design.
Hands-on experience with connectors/cabling and custom mechanical solutions for electrical testing.
Excellent documentation and communication skills.
System and component debugging skills.
Self-motivated team player with ability to lead the project in fast-paced environment.
Able to travel domestically and internationally to on-site support customers and production.
Basic coding/data skills for test analysis.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with server hardware is a plus.

Responsibilities

Bring up and maintain functional test stations and fixtures; write/update work instructions; train operators; drive daily issue triage and containment.
Work with EE/ME and manufacturing to meet ramp schedules and support NPI -> MP transfer with clear documentation.
Write and maintain debug procedures for production screening.
Plan and execute validation for connectors/cabling.
Partner with customer/DC ops and internal FAEs to reproduce field issues and drive root cause/containment.
Convert lessons learned into design guidelines and validation checklists for future platforms.