Cerebras
Lead Systems Signal Integrity/Power Integrity Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA. Posted 2 months ago
The role
This person will solve complex signal integrity and power integrity problems for high-speed AI compute platforms. They will perform analysis across PCBs, flex circuits, rigid-flex assemblies, connectors, and advanced packages.
What you will do
- Solve complex signal integrity and power integrity problems for high-speed AI compute platforms
- Perform advanced pre-layout and post-layout SI/PI analysis
- Lead root-cause analysis of challenging SI/PI issues
- Analyze and resolve SI/PI challenges associated with flex circuits, connectors, and advanced packaging
- Analyze and troubleshoot power delivery networks using DC and AC simulations and hardware correlation
- Define and refine PCB, rigid-flex, and flex circuit stack-ups and material selections
- Review schematics, PCB layouts, and flex designs to identify SI/PI risks
- Work with silicon and package design teams to resolve SI/PI issues
- Act as a technical escalation point for complex SI/PI issues
Required qualifications
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
- 15+ years of demonstrated depth of expertise in system-level signal integrity and power integrity engineering for high-speed hardware systems
- Deep expertise in high-speed serial and parallel interface analysis and debug
- Strong hands-on experience with PCB, rigid-flex, and flex circuit stack-up design and analysis
- Advanced SI/PI analysis of flex connectors, high-density interconnects, and advanced packaging technologies
- Proficiency with 2D and 3D electromagnetic simulation tools
- Power delivery network analysis, simulation, and lab correlation at the system level
- Strong grounding in transmission line theory, microwave engineering, and high-speed design fundamentals
- Proven ability to correlate simulation results with hardware behavior and drive concrete design fixes
- Experience working on server hardware, AI accelerators, hardware accelerator, datacenter, AI Hardware, enterprise product, GPU, CPU, TPU, server platform
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale AI or high-performance compute systems
Benefits
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research
- Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world
- Enjoy job stability with startup vitality
- Simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs
About the company
Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. The company works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.