Senior Hardware Engineer

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Aliso Viejo CA

Sony Interactive Entertainments Cloud Gaming Engineering and Infrastructure (CGEI) division is leading the Cloud Gaming revolution putting console-quality video games on any device from TVs to consoles to mobile devices and beyond.

Our Hardware & Systems Engineering team is looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join an innovative team of hardware engineers specialized in custom scale-out computing development. The ideal candidate complements this team and brings technical leadership to team members and partners.

• Work with local and remote partners to create custom computing hardware by owning the design cycles for scale-out gaming hardware
• Work with external partners and suppliers to design and execute to hardware specifications
• Work with developers in partner software and firmware departments to create system-level solutions that integrate with existing and novel rack- datacenter and global-level system architectures.
• End-to-end PCBA design including schematic- and VHDL-based design and layout oversight
• Hands-on laboratory work including new hardware bringup and laboratory management

• BSEE required MSEE or PhD preferred
• 5 years of proven hardware design and technical leadership
• Experience with Jira and Confluence in both waterfall and Agile environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to articulate technical information in a clear and concise manner at all levels from executive staff to engineers
• Strong cross-team collaboration and interpersonal skills with a variety of roles including engineering product management and support
• Strong understanding of digital electrical design
• Deep knowledge of high-speed protocols including PCIe link and transport DDR5/6 Ethernet USB4
• Proven experience with broadly-used electrical design tools
• Experience building debugging and troubleshooting novel high-performance hardware systems

• Experience with FPGA/CPLD design including commensurate knowledge of standard and vendor-specific tooling
• Working experience in Perl TCL Python Linux environments and/or C/C
• Understanding of computer architecture interconnects FPGAs and storage technology
• Experience developing test code (firmware software test code) for prototypes and early validation platforms and commensurate knowledge of integrated development environments (IDEs)
• Experience leading technical work in small workgroups

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