Staff Hardware Engineer

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • $140,000 PA - $175,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Hardware Engineer will be responsible for board-level circuit design, bring-up, and validation, while coordinating with JDM/ODM/OEM projects. The role involves working within a small, dynamic team and requires the candidate to be comfortable in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities include defining system design specifications, creating HW functional specifications, designing digital circuits, coding CPLD/glue logic, collaborating with mechanical engineering, understanding optical communications technologies, and driving the qualification of optics. The role also involves designing new products and supporting existing ones, component selection, prototype build support, and environmental and compliance testing coordination.

Must have:

BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
5+ years of design experience
Experience with high-speed board design
Experience with low-noise power regulator design
Experience with Verilog
Board-level debug and validation skills
Experience with test equipment
Experience writing product specifications and test plans
Ability to organize and prioritize effectively
Ability to recognize problems and draw valid conclusions
Ability to work with cross-functional teams

Good to have:

Test scripts (Tera term, Shell, or Python)

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Job Details

Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world’s leading organizations run fast, stay secure, and innovate. We provide the industry’s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.

Gigamon is seeking a Staff Hardware Engineer to perform board-level circuit design, bring-up and validation, and coordinate JDM/ODM/OEM projects. The candidate will be working as part of a small, dynamic team and must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

Help define high-level system design specifications
Create HW functional specifications
Board-level digital circuit design, bring-up and validation
CPLD/glue logic coding
Work with mechanical engineering on mechanical and thermal solutions, and system assembly and integration.
Understand optical communications technologies and drive the qualification of new and sustaining of existing optics including transceivers and passive splitters.
Responsible for the design of new products as well as the support of existing products.
Responsible for components selection and qualification.
Support and coordinate prototype builds and validation at contact manufacturer and/or JDM/ODM partners.
Support team with critical customer escalations
Support and coordinate environmental and compliance testing, manage certifications and reports, and support customers for compliance questions and requests.

Qualifications:

BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
5+ years of design experience in networking products, embedded products, or optical products.
Experience with high-speed board design
Experience with low-noise, high-efficiency, on-board power regulator design
Experience with Verilog
Board-level debug and validation skills
Experience using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
Experience writing product specifications, test plans and test procedures.
Ability to organize and prioritize responsibilities effectively to meet deadlines
Ability to recognize problems, gather data, draw valid conclusions
Ability to work effectively with cross functional teams, including platform and application software team and manufacturing

Bonus:

Test scripts (Tera term, Shell, or Python)

The base salary compensation range targeted for this role based out of Gigamon's Santa Clara, CA, Headquarters office is $140,000 to $175,000 with an opportunity to earn an annual bonus or commission (subject to terms and conditions of the plan). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.

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