Lenovo

Notebook electrical design engineer with DC/DC and analog circuit design skills. Essentially the experience in power circuit design of PC, Smartphone, Tablet, Embedded System, and or Consumer Electronics for more than 3 years.

Roles and responsibilities

• Understands power architecture and requirement of next generation CPU/Chipset/GPU/Battery charger, makes reference schematics and motherboard for prototyping.
• Understands the market/customer requirements for the product properly and interprets them in architect/high level design of hardware based on those requirements
• Leads and actually executes by herself/himself the detailed design of hardware (schematics, layout, signal routing, etc)
• Leads and actually executes by herself/himself the debugging of hardware issue
• Leads and actually executes by herself/himself problem resolution of hardware issue
• Leads and executes the unit testing of hardware validation
• On-site engineering support at manufacturing factory in China during development and ramp-up phase
• Communicates with mechanical design team to optimize motherboard  design
• Communicates with software team to optimize hardware design
• Communicates with procurement engineering team to optimize the implementation of subsystems
• Communicates with the Product Assurance / Product Engineering teams, and tracks defects
• Communicates with World Wide ThinkPad development team and external development partners to support their development activities
• Report the development status to the project manager and the people manager with timely manner

Skills required

• Understand the datasheet of regulator ICs, FET/Transistor, discrete parts
• Understand schematics and layout design of motherboard
• Observe waveform of motherboard electrical signals and analyze it
• Problem solving skills for electrical issue
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with logical communication skill