Your role and responsibilities
· Perform strategic analysis on pre-production hardware designs utilizing commercially available and internally developed electromagnetic modelling tool suites, scripting, and transient simulation methodologies to validate and improve the performance of innovative high-performance high-quality future designs supporting IBM business goals focused on the Quantum brand.
· Develop and execute laboratory verification/characterization on early user hardware, enabling model-to-hardware correlation to add value to future hardware designs.
· Perform laboratory measurements utilizing an oscilloscope, Phase Noise Analyzer, VNA, and TDR.
· Collaborate with cross-site/cross-geo teams and leadership to establish and refine strategy for tackling aggressive product goals and schedules.
· Continuously innovating design and development processes with the department and utilizing Agile best practices.
Required education
Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred education
Master’s Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
· 3-5 years of industry work experience in Signal and Power Integrity analysis, including both time-domain and frequency-domain assessment of signaling channels and Power Distribution Networks
· Familiarity with Microprocessor and ASIC 1st Level Chip Packaging and Hardware Development
· Demonstrated experience in technical execution
· Demonstrated excellence in communication skills
· Eagerness to learn, demonstrating a growth mindset
· Ability to proactively solve problems independently and in a team environment
Preferred technical and professional experience
· Comprehensive understanding of Microprocessor, ASIC, Signal and Power Integrity, 1st Level Chip Packaging, and hardware development engineering processes
· Experience with one or more programming skills such as Python, Skill, Perl, C++, Matlab
· Comprehensive skills with signal and power integrity simulation software tools
· Demonstrated ability to develop peer, cross-functional, and-cross business relationships to maximize collaboration and team effectiveness
· Demonstrated ability to work and excel in a fast-paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
