Senior Hardware Engineer - Board Failure Analysis
Core
Lead end-to-end technical investigations into critical field escalations and complex system failures involving hardware, signal integrity, power delivery, thermal dynamics, and firmware.
Role type
Senior Hardware Engineer (Board Failure Analysis)
Builds
Next-generation hardware with Design-for-Reliability, Design-for-Debug, and Design-for-Manufacturing requirements
Domain
Hardware engineering, high-speed digital systems, power distribution networks
Required skills
Board design, system-level failure analysis, PCIe Gen4/5/6, DDR4/5, HBM, SerDes, optical transceivers, power distribution network troubleshooting, signal integrity analysis, physical failure analysis (CSAM, X-ray, FIB, SEM/EDX, decapsulation, micro-probing), cross-functional root cause analysis, vendor management, 8D reporting
Preferred skills
Executive presence, mentoring junior engineers
Technologies
Firmware, Hardware, Network, PCIe Architect
Responsibilities
Develop structured failure-analysis hypotheses and fault-isolation trees, guide lab engineers in testing high-speed boards and multi-chassis systems, drive cross-functional root cause analysis with ASIC Architecture, Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, Mechanical/Thermal, Diagnostics, and Software teams, conduct component-level physical failure analysis with vendors and foundries, use field and manufacturing failure data to inform design requirements, establish standardized root cause failure analysis methods and 8D reports, mentor junior engineers
