Staff Engineer, Power Design
About The Position
The Staff Engineer, Electrical Design - Power develops electrical systems and circuits for a range of applications. The role researches system concepts, prepares plans, and documents designs in schematics and system specifications. It also involves testing, simulation, validation, and qualification, making adjustments as needed, and providing support through manufacturing. The position works with cross-functional teams, including designers, customers, manufacturing engineering, and project leadership, to deliver robust, high-quality products. Designs are improved based on feedback from manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design, and simulation reviews. The engineer works with guidance from Senior Staff and Principal-level engineers while providing technical leadership and direction to a global engineering team. The role may serve as a recognized technical expert in one or more areas.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience with an M.S., or at least 5 years of experience with a Ph.D.
- Experience designing single- or multi-phase DC/DC converters, point-of-load converters, LDOs, MOSFETs, magnetics, hot-swap circuitry/controllers, load switches, and current-sense circuits and amplifiers.
- Experience designing power systems for networking, compute, or storage products.
- Experience with high-current, low-voltage power subsystems for CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, SoCs, and FPGAs.
- Experience with PCB stack-ups, power planes, and tools for simulating voltage gradients.
- Familiarity with schematic capture and CAD layout tools or equivalent.
- Proficiency with circuit simulation tools such as SIMPLIS, PSPICE, and LTSPICE, or equivalent tools.
- Experience with power integrity tools such as PowerDC or equivalent, and board-level evaluation.
- Experience designing and troubleshooting power-management interfaces such as PMBus, AVS, SVID, and SVI2/3.
- Experience defining specifications and validating power connectors, cable assemblies, and fuses.
- Familiarity with the NPI hardware design and deployment cycle.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present effectively to various audiences.
- Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience; educational requirements may vary by geography.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of high-density power modules and Vertical Power Delivery.
- Knowledge of Integrated Voltage Regulators (IVR).
- Experience developing test automation for power validation.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement technical solutions for complex projects, and participate in project planning and scheduling.
- Propose solutions to improve system or product performance, reliability, and features.
- Provide technical leadership and direction to a global team of engineers.
- Review and interpret customer specifications and potentially serve as the primary customer contact.
- Analyze complex system trade-offs, recommend solutions, and develop and lead deployment strategies and plans.
- Lead schematic design, bills of material, power trees, drawings, board layout, and cross-functional design reviews.
- Lead power bring-up and debugging, and support manufacturing assembly and deployment.
- Lead relationships with key vendors and partners.
- Keep current with relevant industry knowledge and regulations and share that knowledge with the team.
- Liaise with suppliers, customers, contractors, and internal teams.
- Create reports and documentation covering specifications, design, testing, and debugging.
- Provide support throughout manufacturing of designed electrical systems and incorporate feedback from design reviews.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
