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Position Title: Hardware Technician
Reference: TPL03SV
Sector: MIPS Processors
Location: Sunnyvale Regional HQ, USA
Salary: Competitive rates of pay apply
The Role: The Hardware Technician is a critical role in the platform engineering group responsible for supporting the design team on all phases of FPGA platform design and manufacturing. The Hardware Technician will interface between design engineering and our contract manufacturers to produce prototype and production development hardware.
Background: As a key member of the engineering team you will be a central person responsible for supporting our hardware development platforms.
Opportunity:
This position offers the chance to be very visible and key member of the platform engineering team. The right candidate will have the chance to be a key individual supporting design engineering, internal and external developers and the customer support teams.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate assembly of engineering boards with external contractors.
- Support assembly and testing as needed with contractors.
- Set up development boards as per customer requested specifications, pack and ship systems.
- Debug hardware emulation boards to component level.
- Run scripts to generate FPGA files, load onto emulation systems.
- Document test methods used and results obtained to hardware lab wiki and database.
- Rework reference designs and customer boards
- Build prototype test system components for engineering development and test fixtures.
- Work with purchasing to procure prototype parts and materials.
The successful candidate will have some of the following skills:
- Minimum 2+ years experience in commercial electronic engineering in a DVT or Manufacturing Test lab environment.
- Prior experience with bill of materials and manufacturing test procedures.
- Ability to root cause hardware failures
- Familiarity with Windows and Linux operation.
- Install PC Operating Systems: Linux, Windows and DOS.
- Ability to read datasheets, schematics, understand basic circuits, digital circuits.
- Experience with lab equipment; oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, digital voltmeters and general lab tools.
- Experience using Windows and MS Office applications.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with the engineering team and to understand the required work.
- Self-motivated team player with excellent problem solving skills
- Participate as part of a project team and perform duties under the leadership of the Engineers and Engineering Manager.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience with Cadence Orcad schematic tools.
- Experienced with Arena BOM management system.
- Experience with In-Circuit Programming of Xilinx FPGAs and other devices.
- Experience working with embedded systems or PC motherboards.
The successful candidate will be:
- A self-starter – able to work both alone and as part of a team.
- Friendly – outgoing personality, gets on with all types of people and interface effectively with other groups in the engineering department.
- Able to be detail oriented and sensitive to high level project requirements.
- Extremely organized, able to communicate clear project information both written and verbally.
Working Environment: As a member of the platform engineering team you will be working closely with the processor design, Linux Kernel, FPGA synthesis and hardware design engineers to ensure our projects achieve high test coverage and test efficient. Our collaborative project team will depend on your insights to help define methods to test new features and functions.
Qualifications: Associates or Bachelors degree in engineering required, relevant semiconductor experience a plus
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