Relevant Experience & Education Highlights

The following sections highlight the candidate’s professional background as it pertains to the specific needs of the Director, Signal Integrity position.

1. Engineering Leadership & Team Management

The role requires managing a worldwide team and defining strategic objectives.

• Multi-Discipline Team Leadership: Managed teams of hardware design engineers, hardware verification engineers, FPGA engineers, and thermal/mechanical engineers at a major semiconductor company.
• People Management: Full management accountability including career development, coaching, hiring, performance evaluations, compensation recommendations, and promotions.
• Process Improvement: Drove continuous hardware design process improvements across the organization and promoted positive cross-team collaboration.
• Customer & Partner Engagement: Engaged directly with customers and ODM/OEMs to foster collaboration and resolve technical issues.

2. Data Center Platform Hardware Design

The role requires deep knowledge of Signal/Power Integrity, high-speed interfaces, and PDN.

• Server Platform Delivery: Delivered high-performance CPU baseboards for data center and supercomputer projects in collaboration with a US National Laboratory.
• Full Design Ownership: Led hardware engineering teams responsible for schematic capture, PCB stack-up definition, component placement, routing guidance, power-on test plans, debug procedures, and high-volume manufacturing readiness.
• Cross-Discipline Collaboration: Led collaboration with signal integrity, power delivery, mechanical, manufacturing, environmental, software, and firmware engineers.
• Project Planning: Worked with program management on project scheduling and provided mentoring and guidance for junior engineers.

3. High-Speed Interface & Validation Expertise

The role requires expertise in high-speed signaling, PCB design, and validation tools.

• High-Speed Interfaces: Delivered USB Type-C prototype hardware, Thunderbolt subsystem integration, and wireless module designs (WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS).
• Lab Instrumentation: Proficient with oscilloscopes, vector signal analyzers, vector signal generators, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, and network analyzers.
• Architecture & Trade-offs: Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical trade-offs between subsystem component options and make architecture decisions spanning electrical, mechanical, and software integration.
• Autonomous Delivery: Completed complex, multi-board system designs with a high degree of autonomy, owning all aspects from architecture through validation.

4. Education & Career Progression

The role requires 10+ years of experience (with an MS) and at least 2 years of direct SI management.

• Education: Holds an MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
• Career Tenure: 22+ years of progressive engineering experience at a global semiconductor leader, advancing from rotation engineer to hardware engineer to senior hardware engineer to engineering manager.
• Management Experience: 6+ years in an engineering management role overseeing data center platform hardware design.
• Early Career Foundation: Circuit-level design background including pipelined ADC design and component-level specification analysis.

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