Staff Hardware Engineer - Santa Clara - Hybrid

Gigamon; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Staff Hardware Engineer to join their dynamic team in Santa Clara. In this role, you will engage in board-level circuit design and validation, contributing to innovative networking and optical products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure product excellence and support critical customer escalations. This role offers the chance to be part of a company recognized for its cutting-edge technology and commitment to customer satisfaction, providing an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of design experience in networking or optical products.
• Strong skills in board-level debug and validation.
• Experience with high-speed and low-noise power designs.

Responsibilities

• Define system design specifications and create HW functional specs.
• Conduct board-level circuit design and validation.
• Support prototype builds and manage compliance testing.

Skills

Board-level digital circuit design

CPLD/glue logic coding

High-speed board design

Low-noise power regulator design

Verilog

Board-level debug and validation

Test equipment usage (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)

Organizational skills

Cross-functional team collaboration

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

BS in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Tera term

Shell

Python

Job description

Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world’s leading organizations run fast, stay secure, and innovate. We provide the industry’s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.

Gigamon is seeking a Staff Hardware Engineer to perform board-level circuit design, bring-up and validation, and coordinate JDM/ODM/OEM projects. The candidate will be working as part of a small, dynamic team and must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

1. Help define high-level system design specifications
2. Create HW functional specifications
3. Board-level digital circuit design, bring-up and validation
4. CPLD/glue logic coding
5. Work with mechanical engineering on mechanical and thermal solutions, and system assembly and integration.
6. Understand optical communications technologies and drive the qualification of new and sustaining of existing optics including transceivers and passive splitters.
7. Responsible for the design of new products as well as the support of existing products.
8. Responsible for components selection and qualification.
9. Support and coordinate prototype builds and validation at contact manufacturer and/or JDM/ODM partners.
10. Support team with critical customer escalations
11. Support and coordinate environmental and compliance testing, manage certifications and reports, and support customers for compliance questions and requests.

Qualifications:

1. BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
2. 5+ years of design experience in networking products, embedded products, or optical products.
3. Experience with high-speed board design
4. Experience with low-noise, high-efficiency, on-board power regulator design
5. Experience with Verilog
6. Board-level debug and validation skills
7. Experience using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
8. Experience writing product specifications, test plans and test procedures.
9. Ability to organize and prioritize responsibilities effectively to meet deadlines
10. Ability to recognize problems, gather data, draw valid conclusions
11. Ability to work effectively with cross functional teams, including platform and application software team and manufacturing

Bonus:

1. Test scripts (Tera term, Shell, or Python)

The base salary compensation range targeted for this role based out of Gigamon's Santa Clara, CA, Headquarters office is $140,000 to $175,000 with an opportunity to earn an annual bonus or commission (subject to terms and conditions of the plan). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.