Computer Hardware Engineer Career Research and Resources
Cisco Systems Inc.
Full hardware R&D responsibility to lead Cisco VPN router market segment. Rebuild a 15 member team to a 40 member team including engineers and managers to develop a high-end VPN router. The team consists of ASIC designers, ASIC verification engineers, Board designers, System designers, Diagnostic engineers, PCB layout engineers and Signal Integrity engineers. Designed and shipped 3 ASICs (Tools & Fab: IBM). and 2 Router...
Avg. Salary: $200,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Worked with Sun Microsystems CTO, Greg Papadopoulos to take a project from Incubation to product development. Build the team of 17 engineers including 2 managers from scratch. Hands-on involvement with the team to define the system architecture, HW, SW and Telco Style packaging. Played a key role to make trade-offs and select computing nodes, switches, routers, stable storage and interconnect technology. Technology develo...
Avg. Salary: $200,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Tandem Computers
Developed and delivered a R10000 based high-end NSK/UNIX fault tolerant server design. Formed and managed the team from scratch. Created the overall project schedule. Helped define the goal, architecture, performance, PCB and ASIC technology for the project. Designed processor interface ASIC and mother board. Senior Technical Leader of Kernel sub-system of a fault tolerant RISC based server from concept to lab bring up....
Avg. Salary: $200,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Seagate Technology
• Designed experiments for recipe development of automatic detection, evaluation and optimization of the HDD media using optical tools • Improved the efficiency of failure analysis by analyzing the statistical distribution of experiment data
Avg. Salary: $80,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Western Digital Corporation
• Designed and fabricated a new layer structure of next generation heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) hard drive to promote the overall magnetic recording performance • Studied the effect of different buffer layers on the structure of the magnetic recording layer to enhance the reliability of the hard drive
Avg. Salary: $80,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Univerisity of Washington
Magneto-electronic and logic devices: The impact of structure and interfacial coupling on the properties of nano-scale thin film structure and magnetic tunnel junction device • Developed a novel mask-transfer process for the purpose of fabricating high-temperature nano-scale multilayered ring shape magnetic tunnel junction device (MTJ) • Investigated the interfacial exchange-bias coupling to control the switching behavior...
Avg. Salary: $80,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
University of Washington
• Designed and fabricated an unique PDMS-based microfluidic device to sort magnetic nanoparticles • Optimized design parameters to increase the separation efficiency of the device
Avg. Salary: $80,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Department of Defense
• Integrated test program sets and delivered high quality, functional software on time and under budget. • Detected and debugged errors in software that allowed end users to accurately detect faults in ATE, adapter, and UUT. • Performed peer reviews of developments ensuring the delivery of exceptional products to the end user in accordance with established standards and requirements. • Assisted in training video development...
Avg. Salary: $44,176 · Company Rank: Not Available
CACI
• Design automated replacement test solutions for LRU (line replaceable unit) avionics on legacy military test systems for United States Air Force (USAF). Interpret documentation sources to reverse engineer and redesign test systems for rehosting on company PXI-based benchtop solution. Interface with customer via requirements gathering and design reviews.
Avg. Salary: $65,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
National Instruments
Executed daily operations of corporate metrology laboratory--coordinated, scheduled and managed outsourced calibrations to commercial and National Standards Laboratories (NSLs). Provided metrology technical support to corporate R&D and manufacturing personnel including technical review of calibration methodologies and procedures. • Software development: Wrote software tools for data collection, task automation, and report g...
Avg. Salary: $65,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
