Sr. Hardware Engineer

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community.

We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior Power DC-DC Hardware Engineer to drive end-to-end power delivery design for next-generation server platforms. In this role, you will lead the architecture, schematic design, layout constraint definitions, and comprehensive validation of complex board-level DC-DC converters and voltage regulator modules (VRMs). You will serve as a technical subject matter expert, resolving complex cross-functional challenges and mentoring junior engineers.

The ideal candidate is self-motivated, results-driven, and passionate about developing best-in-class server products with outstanding performance and reliability.

• Power Architecture & Design: Lead the end-to-end design, schematic capture, and BOM selection for high-current server motherboard DC-DC power delivery systems, including multiphase voltage regulator modules (VRMs), point-of-load (POL) regulators, and power management circuits.
• Component Evaluation & Modeling: Perform component sizing, worst-case stress analysis, power loss calculations, and safe operating area (SOA) assessments for MOSFETs, power stages, inductors, controllers, and passive filtering networks.
• PCB Layout & PI Direction: Establish PCB power layer stackup constraints, define high-current routing strategies to minimize parasitic inductance and loop resistance, and collaborate closely with CAD/layout engineers on power integrity (PI) and EMI compliance.
• Hardware Bring-Up & Lab Validation: Direct the bring-up, loop stability compensation, dynamic load transient tuning, ripple/noise verification, and power efficiency profiling across line, load, and temperature extremes.
• Cross-Functional Issue Resolution: Drive root-cause investigations and failure analysis (FMEA) for complex board- and system-level power anomalies in coordination with signal integrity, thermal, mechanical, firmware, and validation teams.
• Design Standards & Vendor Alignment: Interface with silicon partners and component vendors on custom part evaluations, roadmap alignment, and technical support; establish and document internal power design guidelines, review checklists, and validation standards.
• Technical Mentorship: Review schematics and layout artwork from junior engineers, providing technical guidance and mentoring across the hardware engineering team.

• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Power Electronics, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of hands‑on hardware engineering experience with a primary focus on board‑level DC‑DC power design and server or enterprise computing hardware.
• In‑depth expertise in switch‑mode power supply (SMPS) topologies (synchronous buck, multiphase buck, boost, isolated/non‑isolated DC‑DC converters).
• Strong knowledge of multiphase VR controllers (e.g., IMVP/VR13/VR14 or equivalent), smart power stages (SPS/DrMOS), and digital power telemetry (PMBus, I2C, SVID).
• Proficiency in schematic capture and netlist management tools (e.g., Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL / OrCAD Capture).
• Advanced lab skills using…