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Principal Hardware Engineer - Santa Clara - Hybrid

Engineering Santa Clara, California

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Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world’s leading organizations run fast, stay secure, and innovate. We provide the industry’s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction, serving more than 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and hundreds of governments and educational institutions worldwide. 
Gigamon is seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer to perform board-level circuit design, development, and bring-up, including digital and analog technologies. The candidate will be working as part of a small, dynamic global team and must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. 
  
Responsibilities: 
  

  • Define the architecture and high-level concepts of new systems and board-level products. 

  • Perform board and system-level circuit design, bring-up, and validation, including digital and analog technologies. 

  

  • Understand up-to-date optical communications technologies, responsible for new optics investigation, qualification, and release 

  • Responsible for the design and development of new products as well as the support and modification of existing products 

  • Collaborate with the Product management team to translate customer requirements into system design 

  • Responsible for conceptual design, parts selection, design simulation, detailed design, schematic capture, and PCB layout guidelines 

  • Mentor junior engineers 

  • Manage prototype builds with contract manufacturers and JDM/ODM partners 

  • Support the boards and systems during environmental testing and entry into production 

  
  
Qualifications:   

  • BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, MS preferred 

  • 15+ years of applicable design experience designing networking products or equivalent, familiarity with Broadcom/Marvell solutions is a big plus 

  • Deep understanding of high-speed (100G PAM4) board design, including SI/PI implications 

  • Experience with the design of low-noise, high-efficiency on-board power regulation circuits 

  • Strong board-level debug and verification skills 

  • Experience using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers 

  • Prior experience writing product specifications, test plans, and test procedures 

  • Must be willing to learn new skills, be a self-starter, and a team player 

  • Ability to organize and prioritize responsibilities effectively to meet deadlines 

  • Ability to recognize problems, gather data, draw valid conclusions, and effectively present information to managers, peers, and customers 

  • Ability to work effectively with a wide variety of people. 

 
The base salary compensation range targeted for this role, based at Gigamon's Santa Clara, CA, Headquarters office, is $192,000 to $240,000, with an opportunity to earn an annual bonus or commission (subject to the terms and conditions of the plan). This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices

As an equal opportunity employer, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and/or local law. For more information, please refer to Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at (669) 240-2248.

If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.

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