Electronic Design Engineer

Viking Enterprise Solutions has a rich history of leadership in providing storage and storage server platforms to hyper-scale and enterprise data centers worldwide. The division leads the market with ultra-high capacity and high-end flash systems. Viking Enterprise Solutions provides advanced data center products including solid-state memory and disk-based storage server appliances, JBOD storage systems and related products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Viking Enterprise Solutions products are tailored for integration into OEM, System Integrator and data center products.

Viking Enterprise Solutions is proud to be part of the Sanmina family. Sanmina is recognized as a technology leader, providing end-to-end design, manufacturing and logistics solutions, maintaining a global footprint of design and manufacturing operations in 23 countries on six continents.

Job Purpose:

The Electronic Design Engineer is responsible for electrical and logical design and development of IT products including schematic capture, layout review, and initial bring-up and debugging of new boards and platforms, including generating detailed test reports. The successful candidate will perform schematic, board level and system level characterization and debugging, generate characterization reports and statistical capture of EVT and DVT data including margin testing of memory, PCIe and IO subsystems, board voltage characterization and failure rates. The candidate is capable of generating work-around solution following the errata listings and recommendations of manufacturers. The successful candidate shall be self motivated, a great leader, proactive, take complete ownership of tasks, and have good communication and customer interaction skills.

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities:

Identify cost-efficient ways to develop new boards that meet the PRD

Develop schematics for new boards

Generate BOM and perform cost analysis of components

Assist in layout review

Work with procurement to secure timely availability of components

Bring-up and debug of boards

Thoroughly test and perform failure analysis on failing boards

Error logging and revision control of boards

Integration into system and long term functional and reliability testing

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Systems Engineering (BSEE) or equivalent qualification

1-2 years of relevant electrical product design and development

Good understanding of x86 server architecture

Good working knowledge of signal integrity

Excellent communication skills to develop and maintain proactive interactions

Familiar with SerDes characterization equipment such as bus analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, JTAG boundary scan, and system validation equipment such as bus and protocol analyzers.

Sanmina is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Salary Range(annual): $65,000 - $85,000

Actual base pay within this range (determined at the offer stage) will be based on a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, and skills, and is just one element of our total rewards package. The total rewards package also includes a variety of benefits, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business and, depending on the role, may include eligibility for restricted stock unit awards and participation in a discretionary bonus program.