Board Design Engineer

Why ZT Systems

At ZT Systems, you’ll get to do work you are proud of alongside smart, passionate people. Every day, there are opportunities to collaborate with the best in the industry to design, build, and deliver impactful solutions to world-class customers. Along the way, you will gain hands-on experience in a face-paced environment that’s challenging, rewarding, and career-defining.

A culture built around our values, we work hard and think fast. We view challenges as opportunities—to do better, push harder, and be faster than we were the day before. When we fail, we learn from it and move on together. And when we succeed we use the momentum to go even further. We create value with everything we do, building the foundation of today—and transforming the future of tomorrow.

Join ZT Systems and help us build technology infrastructure that connects the world.

About The Role

The Staff Board Design Engineer will be responsible for translating the System and Architectural Specifications into actual designs. This translation includes authoring/contributing to a detailed Design Spec and schematics as well as collaborating with Power Engineers, Signal Integrity Engineers, and PC Board Layout Engineers to generate a physical instantiation. Board DEs participate in power on planning and are active in the lab during power on and board level testing as well as driving debug and root cause analysis. Other responsibilities for this position include working directly with our customers and core technology suppliers to understand and solve technical problems facing the customer.

What You’ll Do

• Develops server motherboards and add-in cards from definition through schematics, PCB Layout/CAD, and HW Verification in the lab.
• Develops/implements repeatable design processes, looking for ways to improve quality and reduce risk and opportunities for errors. Practices “continual process improvement”
• Develop technical relationships with the System Architecture Team.
• Collaborate with the appropriate BIOS/FW teams to establish the I/O pin definitions and ensure the HW Design Specification accurately defines them.
• Create consistent, human readable schematics
• Design with high quality and cost-effective solutions in mind. Avoid unnecessary or unessential features and understand when a novel solution is the correct choice.
• Drive design through new product development life cycle from concept through planning and development.
• Lead feasibility studies of system level concepts.
• Drive prototyping or proof of concepts of new technologies.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering required, Master’s degree preferred
• 5 years of direct industry experience required
• Solid grasp of analog and digital circuit theory and principles.
• Strong background and experience with high-speed signal design implementation, power distribution techniques, and Intel/AMD/ARM/GPU platform architectures.
• Experience with implementation of high-speed serial buses and Fabrics (SAS/SATA, PCIe, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, Ethernet, etc.), high speed Memory Buses (DDR4, DDR5, HBM2), and Processor/Accelerator Cache Coherent Links (CCIX, GenZ, CXL).
• Strong knowledge of the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) functionality and the ability to enable it.
• Demonstrated ability to create detailed design specifications and develop test plans for new product features.
• Demonstrated ability to discover, learn, and apply new technologies.

ZT Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and do not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, age, gender, marital status, national origin, disability or handicap, or veteran status.

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