We are seeking a highly experienced and technically authoritative Principal Engineer specializing in Signal Integrity. The ideal candidate will be a recognized leader in the field of interconnects, responsible for designing, modeling, analyzing, and characterizing high-speed connectors and systems. This role involves significant technical leadership, customer engagement, and conducting cutting-edge research to advance interconnect science.
Primary Purpose:
- Design, model, analyze, and characterize high-speed connectors and systems.
- Act as a focal point in providing technical leadership within the team and to external stakeholders.
- Work closely with customers to develop application-specific solutions and provide comprehensive technical support.
- Conduct research on new and emerging areas of interconnects science, contributing to innovation.
- Be recognized by customers as a technical leader in the field of interconnects.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Discover and invent new techniques and methods in modeling, design, and measurement.
- Lead a team in developing major new products, guiding and directing the activities of multifunctional teams according to engineering management priorities.
- Perform high-speed empirical and analytical signal integrity evaluations of connectors.
- Recommend changes in designs or technical procedures to optimize performance and reliability.
- Conduct and coordinate analytical simulations for connector systems.
- Provide development input to design teams, and create electrical product models and documentation.
- Analyze variation dependence and perform parametric optimization.
- Work in a laboratory environment to validate designs and correlate measurements with simulations using instruments like VNA (Vector Network Analyzer), TDR (Time-Domain Reflectometer), and Oscilloscope.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by management.
Education:
- Required: BSEE, BS Physics, or BS Applied Math.
- Preferred: MS and PhD in the above disciplines.
Skills Sets:
Required:
Technical Team leadership.
- Software Proficiency: Ansys HFSS & Designer, CST, Agilent ADS & PLTS, Matlab.
- Test and Measurement Expertise: VNA, TDR.
- Strong capabilities in Channel modeling and correlation, connector design and validation.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers.
- Proven ability to publish technical papers.
Preferred:
- Established records of invention such as patent ownership.
- Established records of technical paper authorship.
- Experience in communications system and hardware engineering.
