Power Development + Power Integrity Engineer

Responsibilities

The India System design team is responsible to own and deliver System design milestones for IBM POWER, Storage and mainframe platforms. The team collaborates with Global System design & development teams and stakeholders.

As a Power conversion development / Power Integrity Engineer,the candidate has to work with stakeholders and others in a multidisciplinary team to define requirements and develop the power subsystem solution for next generation enterprise server systems. Must havestrong fundamentals in core Power electronics disciplines, control theory, analog, digital, magnetics, and optimized pc board layout, with a high level of analysis and design skills. This position involves end to end ownership of the Server Power Subsystem.

Responsibilities

As Power development engineer, the responsibilities include

Define requirements and develop the power subsystem solution for next generation enterprise server systems.

Accuracy of the circuit design and functional implementation of AC/DC Power Supplies and DC/DC Voltage Regulators both pluggable and embedded,ensuring they are released per the planned development schedule

Describe both the DC, current density, and high frequency characteristics. Understanding how each link in the power delivery chain contributes the desired frequency response is paramount.

Develop verification plans and execution of those plans to ensure functionality to specifications and the overall quality.Experience with SPICE and averaged model simulation tools such as SIMPLIS is preferred.

Perform electrical analysis on card and substrate packages, including DC and frequency/time domain analysis across single card and system level card network, and Verify DC and transient excitations meet system components' tolerance requirements.

As a core member of the Power team, expected to work autonomously and deliver on project phases on time and on budget

Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Doctorate Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics or equivalent program

Around 7-10 years engineering experience

Understanding of Development process from Concept to Qualification

To identify issues, develop and execute action plans, and react quickly to changing requirements.

Demonstrated experience in High efficiency/High Reliability DC-DC and AC-DC Power Conversion

Lab support experience using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, etc. and understanding test/validation results is critical.Logic debug skills are also required for this position.

Experience using PCB design/editor tool (ex:Cadence Allegro).

Experience with I2C, PMBus, AVSBus, SPI protocols and power management devices.

Experience with PowerSI, OptimizePI, and Synopsys Hspice and/or Simplis spice network tools.

Familiarity with statistical analysis and statistical tools also a plus (ex:JMP).

Basic Software Engineering experience (writing and/or modifying Perl, Bash or Shell scripts)

Demonstrated communication skills in a cross functional Development team environment.

Should demonstrate interpersonal communication, creative problem solving, and team building skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Basic understanding of server and computer architecture

Masters/PhD Power Electronics

Experience in Power Design Development

Exposure to Development of Computer Enterprise Server Systems

A background and experience in signal integrity and power integrity is a plus as these skills are integral to power design

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