Hardware Application Engineer

Introduction

XConn Technologies is a leading ASIC supplier of PCIe Gen5 switches and CXL 2.0 switches.Our customers are datacenter OEM vendors and hyperscalers. XConn Technologies is a 4 year old well-funded startup with headquarter office located in the silicon valley.The company focuses on high performance CXL switch ASIC for the next generation computing platforms for AI computing and data centers server systems. The company demonstrated the world's first CXL switch ASIC at FMS event, Intel Innovation and OCP global summit in 2023.

XConn Tech is looking for a motivated and experienced hardware application engineers (AE) to work directly with customers in a support role to help customer design, bring up, debug using either XConn's ASIC or XConn's reference design systems. The AE role is critical for secure design wins and take our solution to production at customers. You will work with customers closely to ensure the successful design, bring up and launch of the project/product.

Requirements and Experiences

• BSEE/BSCS required
• 10 year's hands on experience with schematic, PCB stackups, board designs; design experience with data center servers, AI/GPU systems is a plus
• 5 years working with PCIe switch, PCIe devices, Ethernet switch
• Familiar with design of computing systems SI, PI, device function
• Extensive knowledge and working experience with PCIe protocols, CXL protocol is a plus
• Good understanding of PCIe systems such as SI, clocking, VSP
• Ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently
• Debugging of problems or bugs of hardware and systems
• Hardware/system bring-up
• Familiar with Lab test equipment protocol analyzers, oscilloscopes.
• Direct customer interaction and involvement
• Project or time management skills
• Able to travel to customer sites to support (locations includes China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan)

Functions and Responsibilities

Fundamentally your role is to help customer design the system/boards based on XConn's reference designs; you will review and assist customers to do their hardware designs, making sure the design meet XConn product specs and design rules; you will also help customers in bringing up their products, debugging issues and resolving issues; you may also design boards for XConn's own reference design systems. You will contribute directly to the success of the products and customers that you support.

Responsibilities include:

• Being the primary technical interface to and supporting day-to-day interactions with existing design wins/customers
• Work with customers to complete designs
• Coordinate and support bring-ups and debugs of customer platforms
• Support XConn's own boards and board designs
• Manage writing of datasheets, application notes

Communications

- Excellent written and verbal skills

- Fluency (conversational and/or technical) in English

- Excellent team-work skills

Job location

- Zhubei City, Taiwan

• Outstanding problem-solving skills and professional working attitude are required for this position.