Senior Sustaining Hardware Engineer, Arista

• BSEE or MSEE
• 5+ years of relevant experience in hardware engineering
• Experience debugging Networking Hardware
• Experience working with 20+ layer count boards featuring 50G+ signals
• Experience working with multi-phase DC/DC’s for high current, high transient loads
• Experience working with high speed interfaces (DDR, PCIe) as well as low speed signals (I2C, SPI)
• Familiarity with signal integrity and power integrity concepts and tools, such as: impedance, PDN’s, differential routing, insertion loss, S-parameters, TDR’s, VNA’s
• FPGA design using Verilog

• Our Hardware Engineering team is at the forefront of developing high-speed networking and Ethernet products used in Enterprise campuses, hyperscaler datacenters and bleeding edge AI clusters
• With this comes complex, oftentimes cross-platform issues requiring engineers passionate about debugging and delivering root cause analysis and fixes to the design team, executives, and customers
• Candidates for this position would be responsible for debugging production system problems and delivering solutions
• Deep dive into various aspects of any existing hardware design - CPU/ASIC, power, SI, clocking, PCIE, optics, fab, components, etc
• Work closely with software & customer teams on escalations from the field, including reading logs, identifying the bug, determining the best fix with minimal interruption to the field, delivering the final solution, determining if any other systems are susceptible, and implementing measures to prevent the bug from occurring again
• Work closely with the Hardware design team, but also be able to make firmware, schematic, BOM, fab changes as needed
• Lab measurements and debug
• Work closely with component, FA, ODM teams to identify component level or third party RCAs and fixes needed
• Identify test escapes and work with design validation team to develop and deploy new tests
• Write and present root cause analysis for executives and customers

Total funding: $66m

Arista is a supplier of cloud networking solutions, addressing the needs of internet companies, cloud service providers, and enterprises. While the business is not tied to a crowd of large customers, companies are nonetheless attracted to its CloudVision Software - which has the potential to save them a significant amount of money.