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Introduction

As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.

Your role and responsibilities

The India System design team is responsible to own and deliver System design milestones for IBM POWER, Storage and mainframe platforms. The team collaborates with Global System design & development teams and stakeholders. As a Mechanical engineer with the IBM thermal design team, the candidate must have experience  in mechanical design with 3D mechanical modelling, design for manufacturing, and product release process to join industry leading engineers in pioneering the future of high performance and high reliability mainframe solutions.

 

Challenges of high performance and high reliability server solutions include high density designs with complex system requirements that require creative solutions from our mechanical design team to optimize system designs. The candidate will work in a multi-functional environment where the requirements of thermal, acoustics, electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC), structural integrity, safety, industrial design, cost, performance, and functionality must all be satisfied to deliver a final solution. Working with a focused team, the candidate will develop the product design from concept through product release.

Primary responsibilities will be to develop mechanical models through engagement with the expanded team, rapid prototype critical hardware updates, release design changes to manufacturing, evaluate hardware for design improvements, and engage suppliers for the IBM Z mainframe.

 

Responsibilities

As a member of the Thermal design team, the responsibilities include

·       Creation of Bill of Materials (BOM), product structures, engineering changes (EC)

·     Working with multi-disciplinary engineering team to collaborate on development and definition of complex rack level integrated products with multiple compute, storage, and networking systems components.

·       Interface with development, manufacturing, and compliance teams to enable fulfilment of complex rack level integrated products out of IBM manufacturing division.

·       Mechanical component and integrated assembly design through multiple iterations from early concept level to final production level

·       Computer Aided Design (CAD) 

 

·       Material selection and parts design optimization for functionality, cost, and manufacturability

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

·       Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent program

·       Around 4-6 years engineering experience

·       Highly skilled in Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools; creating 2D drawings and 3D models: Solidworks Preferred

·       Skilled in mechanical analysis: tolerance analysis (GD&T), clash analysis, structural analysis

·       Skilled in part design using sheet metal, plastic, die-cast, machining, 3D printing, and finishes

·       Skilled in design for manufacturability (DFM)

·       Experience with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

·       Self-starter, self-motivated, and able to independently drive tasks to completion

·       Willingness to work hands on with mechanical components

 

·       Must be effective working in a team-based atmosphere

Preferred technical and professional experience

·       Bachelor’s degree in applicable engineering discipline

·       Basic understanding of server and computer architecture 

·       Strong and effective soft skills including verbal and written communication, problem solving/critical thinking, time management, and being a team player

·       Experience writing engineering changes and bill of material structuring

·       Experience extracting physical design data from Cadence circuit board ECAD models to use in mechanical CAD models of circuit cards

 

 

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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