Staff Hardware Engineer

Aliso Viejo, CA

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Cloud Gaming Engineering and Infrastructure (CGEI) division is leading the Cloud Gaming revolution, putting console-quality video games on any device, from TVs to consoles to mobile devices and beyond.

Our Hardware & Systems Engineering team is looking for a Staff Hardware Engineer to join an innovative team of hardware engineers specialized in custom scale-out computing development. The ideal candidate complements this team and brings technical leadership to team members and partners.

Responsibilities

• Work with local and remote partners to create custom computing hardware designs that satisfy requirements across the company’s online gaming business.
• Work with datacenter partners to understand, define and document scale out requirements for hardware, firmware and software development partners.
• Work with external partners and suppliers to design, develop and deliver custom hardware.
• Work with developers in partner software and firmware departments to create system level solutions that integrate with existing and novel rack-, datacenter- and global-level system architectures.

Qualifications

• BSEE required, MSEE or PhD preferred
• 7-8 years of proven hardware design and technical leadership
• Experience with Jira and Confluence in both waterfall and Agile environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to articulate technical information in a clear and concise manner at all levels from executive staff to engineers
• Strong cross-team collaboration and interpersonal skills with a variety of roles including engineering, product management, and support
• Strong understanding of digital electrical design
• Deep knowledge of high-speed protocols, including PCIe link and transport, DDR5/6, Etherenet, USB4
• Proven experience with broadly-used electrical design tools
• Experience building, debugging and troubleshooting novel high-performance hardware systems

 Skills & Knowledge

• Experience with FPGA/CPLD design, including commensurate knowledge of standard and vendor-specific tooling
• Working experience in Perl, TCL, Python, Linux environments and/or C/C++
• Understanding of computer architecture, interconnects, FPGAs and storage technology
• Experience developing test code (firmware, software test code) for prototypes and early validation platforms and commensurate knowledge of integrated development environments (IDEs)
• Experience leading technical teams, driving cross-functional projects, and
• mentoring junior engineers