Principal Electrical Engineer - Server Hardware Validation

Responsibilities

• Lead system- and subsystem-level electrical validation for server hardware across NPI and sustaining engineering activities.
• Develop validation strategies, test plans, test coverage, procedures, and technical reports for complex hardware changes and electrical subsystems.
• Perform hands-on hardware troubleshooting, fault isolation, and rigorous root-cause analysis (RCCA) for complex board-, subsystem-, server-, factory-, field-, and customer-level failures.
• Collaborate deeply with firmware, software, operating system, diagnostics, field service, manufacturing, and other engineering teams to isolate issues and determine root cause.
• Drive corrective actions from investigation through implementation and validation, balancing technical rigor with the need to resolve critical hardware issues quickly.
• Lead qualification of alternate-source components and support Approved Vendor List (AVL) and end-of-life component activities to maintain manufacturing continuity.
• Analyze complex hardware changes and determine appropriate validation coverage based on interactions across electrical subsystems, interfaces, firmware, software, and system configurations.
• Use high-speed oscilloscopes, differential probes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and other laboratory instrumentation to characterize and troubleshoot electrical behavior.
• Investigate signal integrity, power integrity, timing, noise, interoperability, and other electrical issues affecting system performance and reliability.
• Validate high-speed interfaces and electrical subsystems across varying hardware, firmware, load, and environmental conditions.
• Partner with electrical design, CAD, suppliers, manufacturing, and other engineering teams on validation, qualification, and complex technical issues.
• Review schematics, component specifications, PCB layouts, and other engineering documentation as part of validation, qualification, and root-cause investigations.
• Document specifications, validation plans, test results, technical findings, constraints, corrective actions, and engineering decisions.
• Contribute to formal design reviews and provide validation-driven feedback to improve product quality, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, helping teams work through ambiguous and technically challenging validation and debug problems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 7+ years of relevant technical engineering experience; Master's degree and 5+ years; Doctorate and 3+ years; or 11+ years of relevant technical engineering experience without a degree.
• Strong systems-level electrical or hardware engineering background, including validation and troubleshooting of complex computing, server, embedded, or related hardware platforms.
• Proven ability to develop and lead complex hardware validation and qualification efforts.
• Deep hands-on proficiency with high-speed oscilloscopes and laboratory instrumentation, including differential probes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and related measurement tools.
• Strong knowledge of electrical signal integrity concepts, including timing, jitter, noise, and frequency-domain analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex board- and subsystem-level hardware issues using schematics, electrical measurements, test data, and systematic root-cause analysis.
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate ambiguous failures spanning multiple hardware and system domains.
• Ability to collaborate deeply across hardware, firmware, software, operating system, diagnostics, field service, manufacturing, supplier, and other engineering teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly document and communicate complex technical findings.
• Technical leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to guide engineers through complex validation, debug, and root-cause investigations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in the design, validation, or sustaining of enterprise servers, data center infrastructure, or other large-scale computing platforms.
• Knowledge of Intel, AMD, or Ampere processor-based system architectures and NVIDIA or AMD GPU-based server architectures.
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure and the hardware requirements of high-performance GPU-based computing platforms.
• High-speed interface validation, electrical compliance testing, and Ethernet standards knowledge.
• Strong understanding of power integrity, power delivery, PMICs, signal integrity, and server electrical subsystems.
• Component and alternate-source qualification, Approved Vendor List (AVL) management, and end-of-life component mitigation expertise.
• NPI and production hardware lifecycle knowledge, including qualification and sustaining activities after product launch.
• Proven success investigating customer, field, factory, or production hardware failures and driving RCCA and corrective actions through validation and closure.
• Proficiency with Linux and Windows environments and Python or similar programming languages for validation automation, data analysis, or test workflows.
• Familiarity with schematic capture, board-level electrical design, FPGA-based hardware, PCB layout, and design-review processes.

Location: On-Site | Burlington, MA

Career Level - IC4

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