Job Description

HW Development PCB Card Planning Engineer

* Country:US
* State:TEXAS
* City:Austin
* Category:Software Development & Support
* Required Education:Bachelor's Degree
* Position Type:Professional
* Employment Type:Full-Time
* Contract Type:Regular
* Company:(0147) International Business Machines Corporation
* Req ID:342293BR
* Travel Required:No Travel
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* Location:Austin, TX US

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Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Do you love to solve technical problems with systems and integration? Do you enjoy interacting with a wide array of teams to solve complex problems? Are you a motivated engineer with a strong background in PCB design? If so, then read on.

IBM Cognitive Systems is seeking an experienced Hardware Development PCB Card Planning Engineer to join our enterprise class server development business. IBM has a long and storied history of delivering high reliability high performance servers to key enterprise class companies in industries including Healthcare, Transportation, Business Analytics, and Finance. While an industry leader in high reliability server solutions IBM Cognitive Systems is undergoing expansion into the fields of AI and Machine Learning with such revolutionary innovations as the suite of Watson products. With growing scope of server design, we are seeking a highly motivated engineer with strong background in PCB design to join our elite design team and help to deliver the servers of tomorrow utilizing the IBM POWER architecture.

Job Duties:
The Card Planning Engineer is a unique role to IBM that combines the industry's PCB Card Engineering role with PCB Physical Design (PD) Layout skills to deliver IBM's highly efficient design methodology.
* The Card Planner role leverages card engineering and PD skills to lay a foundation for system critical card designs that enables execution teams to minimally iterate to a final solution. High level system concepts developed by the Card Planner include the number of cards required, card size and shape, major component placement, major bus pathways, connector requirements, etc.
* Post concept the Card Planner drives the delivery of the concept through the execution phase including logic entry and physical design. During the execution phase the Card Planner defines details including component placement, processor fanout and escape, major bus connections, custom connector pinout definitions, and more.
* As a unique role to IBM, the Card Planning Engineer can be developed from two primary paths commonly found in the industry: Card Engineering and Card Physical Design.

About the Team
Card Planners engage in the concept phase of the design in collaboration with system architects and mechanical leads to develop a clear conceptual system design.

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise
* A minimum of 10 years of experience in Card Engineering or Card Physical Design
* Demonstrated experience in designing high-density, multi-layered, high-speed circuit PCBs in either a Card Engineering role or Card Physical Design (PD) role
* Demonstrated experience coordinating and balancing input from multi-functional teams such as System Architecture, Mechanical, Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI), and Interconnect.
* Demonstrated experience with PCB design tool suites.
* Experienced in team-based work developing hardware products including planning, status reporting, leading formal reviews, and schedule planning to achieve aggressive product delivery targets.
* Self-starter with relentless desire to learn and innovate.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Preferred Requirements:

* In depth knowledge of Cadence's Allegro Design Entry, PCB Editor, and Allegro System Architecture.
* Prior experience working on design of processor backplanes.

About Business Unit
IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the worlds most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

Your Life @ IBM
What matters to you when youre looking for your next career challenge?

Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.

About IBM
IBMs greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.

Location Statement
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

IBM intends this job to be performed entirely outside of Colorado.

Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.