GPU BOARD SOLUTIONS PRODUCT ARCHITECT Job in Santa Clara, California Us

GPU BOARD SOLUTIONS PRODUCT ARCHITECT #1427037

The product architect will be responsible for the technical oversight of all the production GPU board designs within a given product segment across multiple business units including Geforce, Quadro and Tesla. The product architect will participate in every facet of the definition, positioning, architecture and execution of board-level products. The candidate will provide top level technical support to management while mentoring and influencing product level decisions interfacing with other lead GPU board solution design engineers. The product architect will participate in defining a competitive lineup with marketing and management, pushing to generate a re-use strategy that will drive consistency across the boards within a segment. Every exquisite product needs to be to hand crafted and extremely well optimized with the intense focus on every small detail along with the lead design engineers involved. As a critical member of the product development team, the product architect will help drive resolution of issues and bugs gating the completion of schedule milestones. The product architect will audit the cost and performance of boards under development to insure they remain in alignment with the competitive niche they were intended to occupy.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leading a product design team from conception to production release
- Define lineup for multiple boards in a segment, helping to obtain power estimates and derive a clear plan of execution
- Generate top level detail documentation on all boards within a segment providing cost and performance opportunity breakdown
- Work extremely closely with other lead design engineers, helping to review implementation details and to help minimize any mistakes. Ensure a re-use strategy is clear and push to ensure alignment across entire segment
- Align all major software features across all boards, setup and drive discussions with software to ensure proper execution
- Active participate in reviewing statement of work documentation
- Collaborate with product managers to align procurement forecast and help identify any potential risk areas.
- Review validation plans with lead validation engineers to ensure proper qualification coverage
- Main interface to application engineering team during the design phase to help them obtain necessary information for external design collateral required for customer enablement
- Ultimately responsible for the overall placement architecture which drives correct subsystem and optimized component placement for the entire thermal/mechanical/electrical design
- Key active participant in GPU bring-up meetings, working in a team environment providing key technical board level leadership, representing multiple boards within a segment
- Large scale optimized IC BGA Ball-map development, signal assignment definition, signal breakout optimization

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- BS or MSEE with circuit/board with 6+years PCB design experience and team leadership experience
- Technically proficient in DC/DC Switching supplies, G/DDR Memory, DVI, Display Port, HDMI, PCI-Express
- Experience with leading other electrical board design engineers, thermal / mechanical engineers and layout engineering
- Experience with high speed board design techniques, best practices
- Proven ability to drive complete product design from marketing requirements to production release with aggressive schedules
- Can do attitude, High energy with leadership and excellent communication skills
- Ability to learn complex concepts in a fast pace environment
- Quick thinking and good decision making skills
- Extreme passion towards attention to details on design and high focus on design quality
- Execute with skill, precision, pride and attention to details
- Experience with Cadence Allegro Schematic Entry (Concept HDL) and Allegro Layout
- Understanding of PC architecture

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