PCB Design Tools Support

Introduction
As a Hardware Developer at IBM you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The India System design team is responsible to own and deliver System design milestones for IBM POWER and mainframe platforms. The team collaborates with Global System design & development teams and stakeholders.
In this role the candidate will work to provide support for the PCB design tools that are used to create our servers. The candidate will be responsible for providing solutions and determining root cause for any technical problems associated with these design tools. You will be working closely with different teams such as physical design card design signal integrity and many more. The job requires a resourceful problem solver who works around technical obstacles and works independently with little direct supervision.

Responsibilities
As PCB Design Tools support the responsibilities include

• Provide support for any questions and issues related to PCB design tools like Cadence – Allegro/APD and also Operating Systems (Windows/Linux)
• Development of utilities to enhance PCB Design Tools
• Tool and design methodology education to Design team as required
• Support for Installs patches updates etc.
• AFS support for new users issues data increases etc.
• Problem evaluation and resolution

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3-8 years of total experience in PCB Design tools support like Cadence – Allegro APD & Mentor Graphics – Xpedition
• Demonstrated experience programming languages such as Perl K-shell C-shell SKILL code C Python Java
• Understanding of file structures on various platforms with Windows and Unix/Linux
• Troubleshooting skills to access and address root cause(s) and provide solutions in timely manner
• Social/Communication skills to work with a wide variety of people in many different cultures and skill levels
• Must be effective working in a team-based atmosphere
• Self-starter self-motivation able to independently drive tasks to completion
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to detail
• Expertise in server administration including installation upgrades backup etc.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge on any secondary PCB design tool like Siemens – PADS Altium or Siemens – Valor NPI
• Understanding of electronics and physical design
• Understanding of manufacturing processes involved with the build of PCB from Gerber to Raw Card to Assemblies
• Background/understanding of IT related skills (systems and networks database management operating system knowledge technical writing PC hardware troubleshooting etc.)