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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 Power conversion development / Power Integrity Engineer, the candidate has to work with stakeholders and others in a multidisciplinary team to define requirements and develop the power subsystem solution for next generation enterprise server systems. Must have strong fundamentals in core Power electronics disciplines, control theory, analog, digital, magnetics, and optimized pc board layout, with a high level of analysis and design skills. This position involves end to end ownership of the Server Power Subsystem.

 

Responsibilities

As Power development engineer, the responsibilities include

  • Define requirements and develop the power subsystem solution for next generation enterprise server systems. 
  • Accuracy of the circuit design and functional implementation of AC/DC Power Supplies and DC/DC Voltage Regulator’s both pluggable and embedded, ensuring they are released per the planned development schedule
  • Describe both the DC, current density, and high frequency characteristics. Understanding how each link in the power delivery chain contributes the desired frequency response is paramount.
  • Develop verification plans and execution of those plans to ensure functionality to specifications and the overall quality.  Experience with SPICE and averaged model simulation tools such as SIMPLIS is preferred.
  • Perform electrical analysis on card and substrate packages, including DC and frequency/time domain analysis across single card and system level card network, and Verify DC and transient excitations meet system components' tolerance requirements.
  • As a core member of the Power team, expected to work autonomously and deliver on project phases on time and on budget
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Doctorate Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics or equivalent program
  • Around 7-10 years engineering experience
  • Understanding of Development process from Concept to Qualification
  • To identify issues, develop and execute action plans, and react quickly to changing requirements.
  • Demonstrated experience in High efficiency/High Reliability DC-DC and AC-DC Power Conversion
  • Lab support experience using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, etc. and understanding test/validation results is critical. Logic debug skills are also required for this position.
  • Experience using PCB design/editor tool (ex: Cadence Allegro).
  • Experience with I2C, PMBus, AVSBus, SPI protocols and power management devices.
  • Experience with PowerSI, OptimizePI, and Synopsys Hspice and/or Simplis spice network tools. 
  • Familiarity with statistical analysis and statistical tools also a plus (ex: JMP).
  • Basic Software Engineering experience (writing and/or modifying Perl, Bash or Shell scripts)
  • Demonstrated communication skills in a cross functional Development team environment.
  • Should demonstrate interpersonal communication, creative problem solving, and team building skills.  

 

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Basic understanding of server and computer architecture 
  • Master’s/PhD Power Electronics
  • Experience in Power Design Development
  • Exposure to Development of Computer Enterprise Server Systems
  • A background and experience in signal integrity and power integrity is a plus as these skills are integral to power design

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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