SANMINA-SCI SYSTEMS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. Hiring! Full Time Senior-Staff Hardware Design Engineer - Bedok in Central Region (Singapore), Earn up to SGD 5,000 - Ricebowl

We are seeking an experienced Senior/Staff Hardware Design Engineer to lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and validation of next-generation, high-performance enterprise server motherboards, compute/storage blades, and custom hardware accelerators. In this role, you will take ownership across the entire hardware lifecycle—from initial feasibility studies and schematic capture to board bring-up, high-speed interface validation, and mass-production deployment with ODM/CM partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Be responsible for architecting, designing, testing, and bringing up high-performance enterprise server motherboards, compute and storage blades, and custom hardware accelerators.
• Conduct product feasibility studies, define system and hardware architectures, partition design blocks, identity and address design and solutions risks.
• Perform schematic capture for server main logic boards, power boards, backplane and companion/add-on cards. Define design constraints and guide PCB layout engineers.
• Execute signal integrity simulations, perform board bring-up, and conduct hands-on-system-to- component level debugging using lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers).
• Validate high-speed digital and enterprise server interfaces such as PCIe, DDR memory,100-GbE or higher Ethernet, USB, I²C/SMBus, SPI, and UART, and verify product performances and functionality.
• Partner closely with mechanical, thermal/cooling, power, firmware, software, silicon, manufacturing(ODM/CM), and reliability teams to balance trade-offs.
• Support factory builds, component qualification, and mass-production issue resolution (including vendor/factory travel as needed).
• Create and maintain functional specifications, Bill of Materials (BOMs), test procedures, and design verification testing (DVT) reports.
• Provide technical expertise and consultation to peers.
• Meet project schedules and budgets.

What You'll Bring

• Education: Bachelor Degree or Masters in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of hands-on hardware or system direct experience with a proven track record delivering data-center-class server platforms, GPU, server platforms and storage solutions.
• Technical Breadth: Strong background in digital, analog, and power circuit design, along with computer architecture fundamentals (x86 CPU/GPU platforms, SoCs, BMC, NVLink, DDR4/DDR5, high-speed networking, or FPGA design/coding).
• Debugging & Problem-Solving: Demonstrated troubleshooting skills in high-speed signaling, power delivery, and thermal management.
• Experience using CAD tools (e.g. Cadence Allegro, System Capture, Mentor)
• Experience with SI/PI simulation (e.g. ANSYS HFSS/SIWave) and lab equipment like high-speed oscilloscopes and VNAs are added advantage
• Familiar with ISO 9001 standards.
• Soft Skills: Collaborative mindset, ability to perform under pressure to meet schedules and budgets, and strong written and verbal communication skills.

How to Stand Out

The ideal candidate has hands-on  expertise architecting high-bandwidth enterprise interfaces (PCIe Gen 5/6, DDR5, 100G+Ethernet, NVLink) along with simulation proficiency (HFSS, SIwave) to conquer complex channel loss and power delivery challenges. You also demonstrate bench experience isolating and solving root-cause hardware failures down to the component level using high-bandwidth oscilloscopes, VNAs, and protocol analyzers through DVT. You have a strong track record balancing system trade-offs with thermal, mechanical, and power teams, while successfully driving designs through NPI stages (EVT/DVT/PVT) into mass production with ODM/CM partners.