System Electrical Engineer / Architect- Pico Lab- San Jose

$126,000 - $306,000/Yr

Bytedance - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Jose, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The System Electrical Engineer/Architect at Pico Lab in San Jose will focus on the design and architecture of system-level motherboards for future XR products, including AR glasses and MR headsets. This role involves hands-on electronics development, schematic capture, and collaboration with various engineering teams to create innovative VR solutions for enterprise clients in education and healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Face the challenge of system-level motherboard architecture and design for future XR products, including futuristic AR glasses, advanced MR headsets, and interactive wristbands.
• Engage early on innovative product concepts and hardware experience in the System Prototyping Team.
• Capture and draw highly complex schematics for high-speed SoC motherboard (MLB) at system level.
• Lead end-to-end electronics development, including early architecture requirements, key components selection, SoC selection, sensors selection, electronic architecture, schematic capture, layout review, system bringing up and supporting embedded and software teams.
• Hands-on electronics development from scratch, full-system schematic capture, complex high-speed PCB designs, Flex designs and board bring-up.
• Own schematic capture of early AR/VR prototypes mainboards, daughterboards, interface boards, wireless connectivity boards and all flexes.
• Prototype closely with industrial designers, optical engineers, mechanical engineers, IC engineers and software engineers for optimized outcomes.

Requirements

• M.S. or PhD in Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years industrial experience in complex schematic capture in consumer electronics development using SoC running Android.
• Experienced with smartphone or smartwatch motherboard design including SoC, MIPI, PCIe, baseband, camera, sensors, mipi, wifi, bt, et al.
• Experienced with schematic and board design using Cadence OrCAD or Altium.
• Experienced with all high-speed mobile SoC, mixed-signal and pure analog boards.
• Experienced working with all of these technologies: use of oscilloscopes, high speed digital test equipment, logic analyzers, or function generators.
• Experience working with digital signal processing, real-time image processing, display engineering, camera modules, mobile SoC and PMIC, or Battery Management System.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiar with embedded software development, firmware coding, Android BSP.
• Familiar with high-speed layout.
• Familiar with RF circuits and layout.
• Familiar with low-power low-noise analog circuitry.
• Familiar with complex SoC motherboard schematic capture, for example experienced in Android smartwatch or smartphone schematic capture.
• Familiar with migrating Android to a customized SoC board. Very familiar with bringing up complex Android SoC systems.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.