F5
F5
F5 is a cybersecurity and enterprise SaaS company focused on application services and security. Its technology helps organizations manage digital applications across cloud environments, with capabilities designed to support application performance, availability, control, and protection.

Principal Hardware Design Engineer - Bangalore, India (Hybrid)

Lead high-performance hardware architecture, design, validation, and production support at F5. Mentor engineers and guide complex electronic systems from concept through manufacturing.

Description

  • Lead system-level hardware architecture, functional specifications, and requirements for new products
  • Drive manufacturability, testability, and reliability throughout product development
  • Evaluate emerging technologies to improve current products and inform future designs
  • Serve as a technical authority for complex assignments, independently selecting appropriate methods and procedures
  • Mentor hardware engineers, provide technical direction, and review work for quality and efficiency
  • Present technical information internally and externally while sharing knowledge across the Hardware Development Team
  • Create and maintain delivery schedules for documentation and testing milestones
  • Work with suppliers and manufacturing partners to validate designs and resolve issues
  • Develop and implement CPLD designs in Verilog HDL when required
  • Provide sustaining engineering support for legacy products and help train manufacturing teams on new designs
  • Participate in design reviews and advance hardware design processes and standards through continuous improvement
  • Follow F5’s Business Code of Ethics and promptly report suspected violations of company policies

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent discipline
  • At least 10 years of experience designing electrical hardware for high-speed digital, analog, and mixed-signal systems
  • Ability to follow F5’s internal processes and requirements
  • Advanced board- and system-level troubleshooting skills
  • Strong knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC, and thermal design
  • Proficiency with schematic capture and hardware design tools such as Cadence, Altium, or Mentor Graphics
  • Proficiency in Verilog HDL programming for CPLD development
  • Extensive Intel or AMD x86 motherboard design experience
  • Extensive experience with high-speed serial interfaces, including DDR4/5, USB 2/3, PCIe Gen5, and 100G+ Ethernet SerDes
  • Extensive electrical design experience for network switches
  • Extensive electrical design experience with Altera and Xilinx FPGAs
  • Extensive experience designing and validating multi-phase CPU VR power supplies
  • Extensive knowledge of memory and storage technologies, including NAND/NOR, SRAM, DRAM, HBM, SATA, and NVMe
  • Extensive experience modeling, simulating, and validating signal integrity
  • Extensive experience modeling, simulating, and validating power integrity
  • Extensive system integration experience involving chassis and backplane designs
  • Expertise with SI simulation tools such as HyperLynx SI/PI, HSPICE, Ansys HFSS, Agilent ADS, or Sisoft QCD
  • Familiarity with low-level firmware and software components, processes, and standards, including BIOS, BMC, Secure Boot, IPMI, Redfish, authentication, and encryption
  • Familiarity with applicable industry standards and compliance requirements
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Experience with UL, CE, FCC, and reliability testing is preferred
  • A master’s degree in Electrical Engineering is desirable

Benefits

  • F5 provides a range of reasonable accommodations for candidates
  • Employment opportunity protections apply equally to eligible candidates
  • Accommodation requests are voluntary and evaluated separately for the application process and job performance

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