HARDWARE ENGINEER/SENIOR ENGINEER

Kontron; Penang; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading electronics company based in Penang seeks an experienced embedded hardware designer. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and verifying high-speed embedded PCB layouts while ensuring compliance with industry standards. A Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering is essential, along with skills in PCB design and familiarity with tools such as Mentor Dx Designer. This role involves working on innovative solutions and enhancing existing designs.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge in power management and high-speed design.
• Experience in defining PCB design rules for mixed-signal layouts.
• Ability to integrate new technologies into circuit boards.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for embedded hardware design from components selection to testing.
• Define PCB design rules according to design requirements.
• Simulate electronic circuits and perform signal integrity verification.

Skills

Embedded hardware design

Signal integrity verification

Troubleshooting techniques

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering

Tools

Mentor Dx Designer

Expedition PCB

Hyperlynx

Job description

Responsibilities

• Responsible for embedded hardware design covering from components selection, schematics capturing, layout, debugging and testing.
• Define PCB design rules according to the embedded design requirement.
• Follow the design rule as stated in the design development procedure to ensure the hardware/ layout block maintainability & reusability.
• Integrate new technologies into the circuit boards while maintaining DFC, DFM and OFT objectives.
• Responsible for high speed and multi-layer embedded PCB layout according to the design rules, and meets the DFM and OFT requirement.
• Simulate electronic circuits and layouts using signal integrity and power integrity tools.
• Perform high speed signal integrity verification and power rail verification against detailed engineering specifications as well as internal and industry standards.
• Create logic circuits on programmable logic devices (FPGA; CPLD) using high‑level design languages (Verilog, VHDL).
• Maintain, upgrade and customize design as requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
• Electronics design knowledge in power management, high‑speed design, mixed‑signal design and embedded system design.
• Knowledge in defining high speed PCB, mixed‑signal layout design rules.
• Familiar with standards‑based design such as PCIe, SATA, USB will be an advantage.
• Knowledge and experience in motherboard design, ARM processor and embedded processor will be an added advantage.
• Experience in PCB layout design, signal integrity and EMC regulations will be an added advantage.
• Experience in creating logic circuits on programmable logic devices will be an added advantage.
• Familiar with Mentor Dx Designer, Expedition PCB and Hyperlynx will be an advantage.
• Good troubleshooting techniques to research technical issues and generate creative/innovative solutions with the ability to work independently. Positive attitude & good team player.