Computer Hardware Engineer Career Research and Resources
Lightwire
Digital Circuit Designer • Responsibilities included designing of integrated circuits, troubleshooting, and verification. My proficiencies include expertise in graphical CAD software, such as SOC Encounter, RC Complier, Synthesis, Encounter Timing System, and Logic Equivalent Checker. Self-motivated individual with an excellent team-oriented background. • Designed various top and block level embedded circuit designs in 6...
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LSI
Lead Design • Talked on customer conference calls, scheduled meetings, and assigned tasks to design team. Served mostly a working manager participating on design as well as leading the group. • Set team milestones, kept meeting notes, and charted progress of team as it pertained to customer deadlines. • Managed teams from two to eight people, along with multiple projects at the same time. Delegate tasks to team me...
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US Peace Corps
Teach math to local students in a public middle school. Teach English to motivated learners. Lead basic computer skills classes to local university students. Other general development work in health and education.
Avg. Salary: $22,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Penn State Center for NMR Research
Create software (C/C++; Matlab) that simulated MRI scans that were physically impractical or unfeasible. The software was to use a new method of simulation than had ever been tried before. I also created technical documents for all work completed for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Avg. Salary: $22,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc.
Reviewed and established criteria to reduce the amount of electronic test equipment on board naval vessels. Participated in code verification during a software review of C++ code written for digital signal processing hardware.
Avg. Salary: $22,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
NASA Goddard Space FLight Center
Create software (C/C++) to pass messages between a command station and two COTS power supplies. I worked for the James Webb Space Telescope project in the Flight Software branch.
Avg. Salary: $22,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
Microsoft
Hardware Engineer – Xbox360 Product Engineering Team In a newly-formed team within the organization, I helped pioneer end-to-end failure investigation and analysis by developing technical debug processes and consistent data collection. I then scaled the organization by leading a local lab team and international support staff through this failure investigation process. With the data collected, I analyzed trends, proposed ...
Avg. Salary: $67,500 · Company Rank: Not Available
IBM
Cell Processor Development - I expanded automated testing efforts to accommodate the growing processor characterization team. This led to greater confidence in understanding product behavior while expediting project completion.
Avg. Salary: $67,500 · Company Rank: Not Available
IBM
Power6 Product Development - In collaboration with multiple teams developing a set of servers, I determined a consistent way to track processor behavior from sub-system assembly to customer use. I then developed the software that took the various data sources and converted the information into a format which allowed it to be married with the manufacturing data warehouse. This enabled data analysts to look at CPU behavio...
Avg. Salary: $67,500 · Company Rank: Not Available
IBM
PowerPC 970 and 750 Processor Development - I joined a larger lab team to continue expanding its capabilities, manage rapidly-changing priorities, grow new talent and lead characterization efforts for new products. The cross-functional team I worked with helped my understanding of where improvements could be made in the lab’s testing, while our characterization influenced the design and manufacturing teams to deliver a q...
Avg. Salary: $67,500 · Company Rank: Not Available
