Senior Hardware Failure Analysis Engineer – Onsite San Jose

Experis Technology Group; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

The client is hiring a Hardware FA Engineer to join the hardware engineering team in San Jose, CA. The role focuses on failure analysis and hardware platform quality for networking products, including board-level and system-level troubleshooting and validation.

You will work with SerDes/serial transmission technologies, high-speed signal integrity, and lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, and logic analyzers to identify root causes and drive corrective actions with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field.
• 6+ years of hardware board circuit and system design experience.
• Experience with high-speed SerDes/serial transmission technologies.
• Experience with electrical diagnostics and measurement equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, Ixia, Spirent).
• Familiarity with PCIe, MDIO, SPI, and I2C interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Perform hardware failure analysis on board- and system-level designs to identify root causes and contributing factors.
• Design, execute, and document troubleshooting plans using electrical diagnostics and measurement equipment.
• Analyze high-speed signal behavior for SerDes/serial transmission technologies and support validation of signal integrity.
• Use lab instruments and test setups (oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, Ixia, Spirent) to reproduce and isolate failures.
• Collaborate with engineering stakeholders to communicate findings, recommend corrective actions, and support hardware improvements.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Hardware design

System design

Root-cause analysis

Electrical engineering fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Digital Multimeters

Logic Analyzers

Ixia

Spirent

SerDes knowledge

Job description

The client is hiring a Hardware FA Engineer to join the hardware engineering team in San Jose, CA. The role focuses on failure analysis and hardware platform quality for networking products, including board-level and system-level troubleshooting and validation.

You will work with SerDes/serial transmission technologies, high-speed signal integrity, and lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, and logic analyzers to identify root causes and drive corrective actions with cross-functional teams.