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Failure Analysis Engineer - Server PCBA Design - Power

AMD· Engineering
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Secaucus, New Jersey$130.4k - $195.6kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role focused on end-to-end hardware root cause analysis for server PCBA with emphasis on power delivery, PDBs, bridge boards, and high-speed interfaces. Leads RCA across bring-up, factory, customer, and system-level failures; collaborates with cross-functional teams to drive corrective actions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead hardware failure analysis and root cause ownership for server PCBA bring-up, factory, customer, and system-level issues, with primary depth in power delivery, PDB, and bridge board domains.
  • Own technical FA across distribution paths, VRs, hot-swap circuits, connectors, cables, sequencing, and related motherboard or high-speed IO interactions.
  • Identify whether failures stem from design, component quality, layout, manufacturing, SI/PI behavior, diagnostics, configuration, firmware-controlled hardware behavior, or platform interactions.
  • Develop diagnostic strategy and execute structured debug plans using design reviews, oscilloscope captures, logic analyzer traces, imaging results, electrical measurements, diagnostic outputs, telemetry, and platform logs.
  • Perform board- and component-level electrical debug for shorts/opens, marginal devices, rail droop, sequencing failures, SI/PI symptoms, connector issues, intermittent behavior, and bridge board IO faults.
  • Validate hardware behavior using lab instrumentation, protocol tools, fault isolation methods, register reads, and data-driven correlation across boot, initialization, stress, and failure states.
  • Lead RCA while partnering with Systems Integration to separate board-level faults from firmware behavior, silicon behavior, diagnostics, configuration, and broader system effects.
  • Automate debug data collection, log parsing, telemetry review, register analysis, electrical data analysis, and failure correlation using Python, Linux tools, SQL, scripting, and data analysis workflows.
  • Create clear technical reports, executive summaries, debug timelines, and 8D-style documentation that communicate failure mode, evidence, root cause, impact, and corrective actions.
  • Lead cross-functional RCA reviews with hardware design, Systems Integration, firmware, silicon, validation, diagnostics, manufacturing, supplier quality, and customer teams to isolate failures fast and drive corrective actions to closure.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
  • Equivalent hands-on experience in server motherboard design, validation, component-level electrical debug, hardware failure analysis, high-speed IO debug, AI GPU platforms, or complex system-level RCA will be considered.

Skills

Required:Server PCBA debugSchematic and layout reviewOscilloscope and logic analyzersCross-functional leadership
Nice to have:Python, Linux, SQL automation8D problem solving
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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