Principal Board Design Engineer

4 weeks ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom European Recruitment Full time

Principal Board Design Engineer


European Recruitment are working closely with a leading semiconductor company, based in Cambridge, who are looking for an experienced Principal Board Design Engineer to join their team.


In this role you will join a Hardware Platform team focused on the development of physical hardware development platforms, based around custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs.


These platforms are then used for software development and validation activities for both external partners/customers and internal development teams.


Responsibilities as Principal Board Design Engineer :

  • Specification, development, and commissioning of new hardware platforms.
  • Lead the PCB development, including schematics, and commissioning.
  • Support the NPI process including management of external contractors and manufacturing support.
  • Work closely with the program team, competency in planning and scheduling tasks, to meet project timescales.


Requirements:

  • Experience in leading multifunctional teams.
  • Excellent communications & interpersonal skills with a desire for learning and self-improvement.
  • Comfortable working with outsourcing companies.
  • Detailed knowledge of embedded system board design, designing with complex LSI devices such as FPGAs, demonstrating an understanding of various high speed IO interface standards such as PCIe and DDR, PCB stack-ups and topolgies.
  • Excellent written and spoken English; ability to write coherent documentation.


Desirable Experience:

  • A broad knowledge of EDA tools for schematic entry PCB layout and signal integrity analysis.
  • Experience in using Cadence CIS, Mentor PADs Layout, Allegro PCB design suite and Hyperlynx tools.
  • Embedded software knowledge to test and debug the design with a creative and structured approach to problem-solving.
  • RTL skills in Verilog or VHDL.
  • Use of a UNIX environment and shell programming/scripting in e.g. Tcl, Perl, Python etc.
  • Programming languages such as: assembly language, higher-level (e.g. C), object orientated (e.g. C++).


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