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Senior Systems Engineer

Location
Mountain View | United States, CA · On-site
Level
Senior
Experience
5+ years
Education
Master's degree
Listed
29 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • ARM or x86 server hardware architecture
  • high-speed interfaces (DDR, PCIe, Ethernet)
  • root-cause analysis

Also useful

  • CXL
  • Lauterbach
  • Python

About the role

Collaborate with architecture, silicon engineering, firmware, hardware design and validation, operating systems, manufacturing, and customer teams to build state-of-the-art AI, compute, storage, networking, and accelerator hardware solutions. Analyze new interfaces and subsystems, develop integration plans, evaluate power efficiency, debug integration issues, and provide technical recommendations.

Perform new, unique, different, and difficult (NUDD) technology and feature analysis, and provide risk assessments and mitigation recommendations. Drive technical requirements and ensure solutions are flexible and scalable across the hardware, firmware, and software stack.

Drive platform- and solution-level technical discussions, contribute to product architecture, and deliver against product goals for quality, reliability, and performance. Collaborate with internal, external, and open-source partners to seamlessly onboard innovative technologies.

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

5+ years of hands-on experience with ARM- or x86-based server hardware architecture, SoC development, high-speed interfaces such as DDR, HBM, PCIe, or Ethernet, and hardware, firmware, and operating system interactions. 5+ experience troubleshooting complex system-level issues and conducting root-cause analysis across areas such as board hardware, signal integrity, CPLD/FPGA, thermal, firmware, or operating system components.

5+ of experience with platform-level test architectures and debugging tools such as Lauterbach, Arium, ARM JTAG tools, OpenOCD, or programming or scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or shell scripting.

These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience Experience with post-silicon validation, platform bring-up, system integration, or server platform validation.

Experience evaluating OEM hardware designs, including hardware, firmware, and operating system interactions, platform configuration trade-offs, performance tuning, or optimization. Experience with high-speed interfaces and technologies such as CXL, PCIe, DDR, E1.S, or Ethernet. Experience with Windows or Linux operating systems, system firmware such as BIOS or BMC, or hardware and software system security.

Experience with workload measurement methodologies or benchmarks such as SPEC CPU, Linpack, or FIO. Understanding of AI and machine learning workloads or experience validating related software stacks, such as TensorFlow. Effective written and verbal technical communication skills, including experience collaborating with cross-functional technical teams.

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