Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
The Senior Principal Hardware Engineer will be responsible for board-level circuit design, bring-up, and validation. They will also coordinate projects with JDM, ODM, and OEM partners. Responsibilities include defining system specifications, creating HW specifications, designing digital circuits, working with mechanical engineers, understanding optical communications, designing new and supporting existing products, selecting components, supporting prototype builds, and coordinating environmental and compliance testing. This role requires a candidate who can work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
Must have:
- BS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- 15 years of design experience in networking or embedded products
- Experience with high-speed board design
- Experience with on-board power regulator design
- Board-level debugging and validation skills
- Experience with test equipment
- Experience writing product specifications
6 skills required
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 enhance the customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce costs and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction, serving more than 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and hundreds of governments and educational institutions worldwide.
Gigamon is seeking a Senior Principal Hardware Engineer to perform board-level circuit design, bring-up, and validation, as well as coordinate JDM, ODM, and OEM projects. The candidate will be 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 using OrCAD or similar tools, bring-up, and validation
- Work with mechanical engineering on mechanical and thermal solutions, system assembly, and integration.
- Understand optical communications technologies and drive the qualification of new and sustaining existing optics, including transceivers and passive splitters.
- Responsible for the design of new products as well as the support of existing products.
- Responsible for component selection and qualification.
- Support and coordinate prototype builds and validation at contract manufacturers and/or JDM/ODM partners.
- Support and coordinate environmental and compliance testing, manage certifications and reports, and assist customers with compliance-related questions and requests.
Qualifications:
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent.
- 15 years of design experience in networking, embedded, or optical products.
- Experience with high-speed board design
- Experience with low-noise, high-efficiency, on-board power regulator design
- Board-level debugging and validation skills
- Experience using test equipment, including 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, and draw valid conclusions
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including platform and application software teams, 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 $190,500 - $275,000, with an opportunity to earn an annual bonus or commission (subject to the plan's terms and conditions). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.
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