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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, bring-up and validation, and coordinate JDM/ODM/OEM projects. The candidate will be working as part of a small, dynamic team and must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.  
Responsibilities: 
  • Help define high-level system design specifications. 
  • Create HW functional specifications 
  • Board-level digital circuit design, bring-up, and validation  
  • CPLD/glue logic coding 
  • Collaborate with mechanical engineering on mechanical and thermal solutions, as well as system assembly and integration. 
  • Understand optical communications technologies and drive the qualification of new and sustain existing optics, including transceivers and passive splitters. 
  • Responsible for the design of new products as well as the support of existing products. 
  • Responsible for component selection and qualification. 
  • Support and coordinate prototype builds and validation at the contact manufacturer and/or JDM/ODM partners. 
  • Support team with critical customer escalations
  • Support and coordinate environmental and compliance testing, manage certifications and reports, and assist customers with compliance-related questions and requests. 
Qualifications: 
  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent. 
  • 10+ years of design experience in networking products, embedded products, or optical products. 
  • Experience with high-speed board design 
  • Experience with low-noise, high-efficiency, on-board power regulator design 
  • Experience with Verilog 
  • Board-level debug and validation skills 
  • Experience using test equipment, including oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. 
  • Experience writing product specifications, test plans, and test procedures. 
  • Ability to organize and prioritize responsibilities effectively to meet deadlines 
  • Ability to recognize problems, gather data, and draw valid conclusions 
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including the platform and application software team, and manufacturing 
Bonus: 
  • Test scripts (Tera term, Shell, or Python)  
The base salary compensation range targeted for this role, based out of 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 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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