Job Description

Locations: Austin, Texas

Categories: Engineering

Req ID: 93240

Hiring Target Min: USD $71,440.00/Yr.

Hiring Target Max: USD $107,160.00/Yr.

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THE ROLE

The Data Center Platform Engineering Group (DPEG) organization is looking for skilled individuals that can contribute to the bring-up, support and debug of complex system / SOC problems. Individuals will be part of a growing lab team and required to do hands on experiments related to issue management as well board level reworks. The position involves a wide range of activities including deploying pre-production platforms and test stations to enable silicon bring-up and validation, contributing to the triage, debug and rework required to resolve complicated system level issues.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate be a team player with strong communication skills and able to work in a dynamic environment. Must be a self-starter capable of working with minimal supervision and driving tasks to completion.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Setup hardware to facilitate remote/local test execution and user defined workloads in the DPEG validation lab
• Own initial troubleshooting and debug of a wide variety of system, firmware, or software issues encountered while maintaining the integrity of a large number of development systems.
• Reproduce issues and validate fixes identified by DCGPU platform leads and chief engineers.
• Provide logs and statistics that will help in further debug of issues.
• Integrate automated testing in CI/CD environment (e.g. Jenkins, Ansible)
• Work within a managed ticketing system and communicate clearly on steps/activities

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Proven test bench setup experience with expertise in embedded systems
• Able to read and interpret board schematics
• Software Programming and scripting experience (Python, bash, C/C++) in Windows and Linux operating systems.
• PC/server environment H/W and S/W setup and administration.
• Basic networking skills
• Comfortable working in different operating system environment including Windows and Linux
• Excellent soldering skills
• Experience with HW and SW fault detection and management
• Experience with power supplies monitoring and sequencing
• Proficient in the fundamentals of power electronics with special emphasis on multiphase power converters
• Demonstrated ability to work with oscilloscopes, multi-meters, current probes, electronic loads, and protocol analyzers as well as adept at intuitive reasoning to explain and correct unexpected results
• Proficient at documenting experimental results in a structured manner for ease of reference
• Knowledge of computer hardware (CPU/APU, graphic cards, memory, bus logic, and display technologies) and software architecture (driver/bios)
• Ability to set up hardware and build computer systems
• Logic based decision making on triage/debug
• Test automation expertise using Perl/Tcl/Python/LabView
• Bonus skills: Familiarity with the low-speed industry standard protocols such as I2C, Redfish, IPMI, SPI, I3C, SVI2, SVI3 and for the high-speed industry standard protocols such as PCIe Gen 5.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering Preferred

LOCATION

• Austin, TX

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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