Viking Enterprise Solutions, a division of Sanmina Corporation, is responsible for the design of high performance storage and server systems for the OEM/JDM marketplace. Due to our continued success and growth, VES has an opportunity for an electrical/systems engineer. This is an opportunity to join the Colorado Springs, CO VES team for an exciting career on the cutting edge in product design. 

The Electrical/Systems 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 DVT and EVT 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, proactive, and have good communication and customer interaction skills.

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Generate product requirement documents (PRD) for new boards and systems
• Identify cost-efficient ways to develop new boards that meet the PRD
• Perform cost analysis of components
• Develop schematics for new boards
• Generate BOM and work with procurement to secure timely availability of components
• Assist in layout review
• Bring-up and debug of boards
• Error logging and revision control of boards
• Integration into system and long term functional and reliability testing
• Provide Engineering-level Support for Customers and Operations for new and existing products
• Participate in continuous improvements in design process, quality, design and support activities
• Travel required to support product manufacturing and component fabrication, as well as onsite support to customers
• Participate in design process improvements.
• Create intellectual property that sets Viking apart from other server providers

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Systems Engineering (BSEE) or equivalent qualification
• 4 years of relevant electrical product design and development preferred but candidates with less experience may be considered
• Excellent communication skills to develop and maintain proactive interactions
• Good understanding of x86 server architecture
• Demonstrate knowledge of Linux OS and scripting
• Working knowledge of SPI, I2C , PCIe, NVMe and Ethernet protocols
• Familiar with high speed PCIE retimers/redrivers and switches and/or SAS IO controllers
• Good working knowledge of signal integrity and familiarity with SerDes characterization equipment such as bus analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, JTAG boundary scan and bus and protocol analyzers.
• Knowledge of Intel XDP / IDP software a plus
• Team player willing to integrate into a heterogeneous team of electrical and mechanical engineers.

Salary Range: $70,000 - $85,000.

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