Electrical Engineer II

The Gaming Devices + Acritical Intelligence Engineering team is a team of diverse and creative professionals who design, test and manufacture some of the best-loved gaming devices in the world. Our teams ship tens of millions of hardware products every year including the Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, a full accessories lineup, and more. Come be part of what’s next for the future of gaming! 

Our Electrical Engineering and Firmware team is seeking an Electrical Engineer II with expertise in power delivery and motherboard design.  
As an electrical engineer on the team, you will solve some of the interesting problems in high-performance analog and digital circuits, component design, as well as system-level integration. This candidate shall be responsible for analysis, design, integration, and validation of Direct Current-to-Direct Currentconverters as well as overall board schematic integration. 
 
The candidate will be working with the electrical board design and System in a Chip component characteristics, to design and characterize the necessary power domains on the board from a Direct Current, Analog Current, and a thermal perspective across all necessary time domains and power states.   
The candidate will have an understanding of chip power/performance trade-offs including Direct Current or leakage power and Analog Current components, and binning associated for voltage and performance binning techniques.  Close collaboration with the System in a Chip teams, the board design teams, and the test and manufacturing teams will be essential.   
The range of product technologies this candidate shall possess includes high-performance digital buses, thermal management, advanced power conversion, schematic capture, and layout integration.  

The candidate will demonstrate a solid understanding of core engineering principles, analytical process, disciplined methodology, superior problem-solving skills, and a passion for developing technologies and products with a broad scope of impact. Experience including contribution to the development of world-class consumer electronic products such as video game consoles, set-top boxes, desktop PCs, and laptop/tablet PCs in desired. Good technical leadership, communication skills, and willingness to tackle big challenges are necessary for this position.

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Responsibilities

Designing, characterizing, specifying and performing cost/performance tradeoffs on Direct Current -DC converters. 

Specifying, designing (schematic capture, Printed Circuit Board layout, BOM, cost analysis, prototyping), implementing and verifying electrical subsystems on the motherboard. 

Design and optimize Power Delivery Network (PDN) across packages and