Hardware Design Engineer Job at HCLTech in California

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HCLTech is looking for a highly talented and self-motivated Hardware Design and Firmware Engineer to join it in advancing the technological world through innovation and creativity.

Job Title: Hardware Qualification Engineer (Hardware Design and Firmware Engineer)

Job ID: 1582164BR

Position Type: Full-time

Location: San Francisco, CA and Clifton, NJ

Role/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Onsite support of our hardware qualification efforts in NYC3 and SFO2
• Hardware qualification of new server SKUs for Compute and GPU Hypervisor, Storage and Infrastructure server hardware
• Hardware validation against design targets (functional and performance related)
• Hardware reconfiguration to support different testing efforts (changes to server components)
• Troubleshooting hardware integration with the platform operational tooling (onboarding)
• Firmware validation and qualification
• Performance testing, analysis and monitoring
• Firmware, BIOS, Kernel upgrades and testing

Required Skills

• Deep understanding of hardware designs and subsystems (BMC, PCIe, CPU, GPU, etc.)
• Proven experience with qualification of hardware designs for production release (SKU Qual)
• Experience with testing component subsystems for use in existing SKUs (Component Qual)
• Deep Linux systems experience including troubleshooting network interfaces, developing and applying configuration management, security best practices and monitoring and alerting.
• Experience with firmware testing and deployment (Firmware Qual)
• Strong automation mindset. Expert knowledge in 1 or more orchestration tools such as Salt, Chef, Ansible or Puppet, and strong Python skills.
• Strong communication skills. Your job will involve writing detailed documentation for others to pick up or leading knowledge sharing sessions with operations teams.
• Hands-on experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) clustered environments from Nvidia or AMD. Experience in performing automated wide scale testing on NCCL or other frameworks.
• Hands-on experience in qualification automation with specific focus on developing testing within an automation framework for hands-free qualification

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range Minimum: $92,000/Annum

Pay Range Maximum: $134,000/Annum

HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law.

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their work location, skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.

How You’ll Grow

At HCLTech, we offer continuous opportunities for you to find your spark and grow with us. We want you to be happy and satisfied with your role and to really learn what type of work sparks your brilliance the best. Throughout your time with us, we offer transparent communication with senior-level employees, learning and career development programs at every level, and opportunities to experiment in different roles or even pivot industries.