General Information

Req #
WD00043573
Career area:
Hardware Engineering
Country/Region:
Japan
State:
Kanagawa
City:
Yokohama-shi
Date:
Friday, October 21, 2022
Working time:
Full-time
Additional Locations: 
* Japan - Kanagawa - Yokohama-shi

Why Work at Lenovo

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #217 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company by further expanding into growth areas that fuel the advancement of ‘New IT’ technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence) including server, storage, mobile, software, solutions, and services.

This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

Description and Requirements

■Roles and responsibilities

-       Understand next-generation chipset specifications and create basic designs and prototype models

-       Appropriately understand the requirements from customers and the marketing department, perform high-level hardware design, and create technical specifications.

-       Perform detailed hardware design (circuit diagram, layout, wiring) based on technical specifications

-       Conduct unit tests or direct external development partners

-       Work with chip suppliers to debug and fix issues

-       Collaborate with ThinkPad mechanical and thermal design team to optimize motherboard shape and component placement

-       Collaborate with ThinkPad's software development team to optimize performance and power management

-       Collaborate with purchasing engineering team to optimize subsystem implementation

-       Communicate with product quality assurance and product engineering departments, identify and report on problem situations, and negotiate on problem corrections.

-       Collaborate with overseas ThinkPad development teams and development partners outside Lenovo to support ThinkPad development work

-       Report the development status to the project manager and people manager.

■Key Interaction with:

• Inside the Lenovo Yokohama office

o Circuit design, mechanical design, thermal design, BIOS/EC development, driver development, subsystem development

o Product quality assurance, product technology

• Overseas Lenovo offices

o ThinkPad China Development LAB (product development work)

o Procurement Engineering (China/Taiwan/USA)

o Manufacturing plant (China)

• Outside Lenovo

o Overseas partners (mainly Taiwan)

o Suppliers of each component (Intel, NVIDIA, etc.)


Requirements: Must Have

-       More than 5 years of experience in electrical design and development of electronic devices such as PCs, tablets, and digital home appliances

-       Understand the specifications of chipsets, GPUs, subsystems, etc.

-       Understand motherboard circuit diagrams and IC layouts

-       Understand graphics interface standards and specifications

-       Ability to communicate in English to conduct technical discussions in emails and meetings with overseas suppliers (reference: TOEIC score of 650 or higher. Applicants whose native language is not Japanese must have the ability to communicate in Japanese (Reference: Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 or higher)


Requirements - Good to Have

- Experience in designing and developing PC graphics boards

- Experience in GPU-related design and development for PCs, tablets, digital home appliances, etc.

- Knowledge and practical experience to explain to others about hardware design of Intel CPU/Chipset and NVIDIA/AMD GPU

- Detailed knowledge and understanding of graphics interface standards and specifications

- Knowledge and practical experience to the extent that you can explain to others about high-speed bus architectures (electrical standards and bus protocols) such as USB/Thunderbolt/PCIe/SATA

* Japan
Kanagawa

Additional Locations: 
* Japan - Kanagawa - Yokohama-shi
* Japan - Kanagawa - Yokohama-shi
* Japan - Kanagawa
* Japan
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