Lead Board Hardware Debug Engineer - Datacenter & AI Platforms

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The Role

We are seeking a Senior Board Hardware Debug Engineer to join our Datacenter & AI Board Validation team. In this role you will:

• Own complex board-level debug for high-performance Datacenter GPU platforms
• Drive hardware validation from prototype bring-up through production
• Analyze and optimize board signaling and system-level design for next-generation GPU-based solutions
• Work at the intersection of cutting-edge GPU solutions, CPUs, memory, networking, and power delivery
• Lead system-level integration and debug across multi-board, multi-GPU datacenter platforms

You will be a key technical leader ensuring our boards and systems meet performance, reliability, and quality targets in demanding Datacenter and AI environments.

The Person

We are looking for someone who is:

• Hands-on: Comfortable in the lab with scopes, analyzers, probes, and soldering tools
• Deeply passionate about DEBUG and testing: Enjoys chasing down elusive failures and intermittent issues
• Strong in PCB-level signal integrity: Understands high-speed serial links, impedance, terminations, and layout tradeoffs
• A problem solver: Able to isolate issues systematically across silicon, firmware, board, and system domains
• Creative and resourceful: Able to design experiments, work around incomplete specs, and find data-driven solutions

You thrive in ambiguity, enjoy complex technical challenges, and take pride in owning issues to closure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead board- and system-level DEBUG of Datacenter GPU platforms (bring-up, stability, performance, interoperability)
• Develop and execute functional test plans for new boards and system configurations
• Perform and guide Board Signal Integrity validation: eye diagrams, jitter analysis, margins, channel characterization
• Lead technical validation efforts across teams, driving validation priorities and test coverage for critical features
• Champion root-cause analysis and cross-functional debug across silicon design, firmware, BIOS, board design, and manufacturing
• Collaborate closely with hardware design, layout, SI/PI, firmware, BIOS, and system engineering teams to resolve issues
• Provide design-for-test and design-for-debug feedback for future board and system designs
• Document debug findings, create reproducible test cases, and drive corrective actions into design and process
• Support factory, customer, and field escalations requiring deep hardware debug expertise

Preferred Experience

• Proven experience in Datacenter board design and/or Board Validation for server, accelerator, or networking products
• Strong background in system-level hardware validation (bring-up, qualification, reliability, and margin verification)
• Hands-on debug methodologies: fault isolation, boundary scan, probing, rework, A/B comparison.
• Solid understanding of signal integrity concepts and tools (e.g., high-speed SerDes, DDR, PCIE channel analysis)
• Working knowledge of computer and I/O protocols, such as PCIe, CXL, DDRx, NVLink, Ethernet, I2C/SMBus, SPI, etc.
• Strong grasp of system architecture: CPU/GPU/memory hierarchy, power sequencing, reset schemes, clocking architectures
• Comfortable with lab equipment: high-speed oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, BERTs, VNAs/TDRs
• Willing and comfortable traveling to support engineering builds, factory ramps, and key debug events (domestic and international, as needed)
• Self-directed and self-motivated: able to drive tasks with minimal supervision and manage multiple debug threads in parallel

Academic Credentials

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering or related field.

LOCATION: Markham, Ontario, Canada

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.