Failure Analysis Engineer

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THE ROLE:

As a Failure Analysis Engineer, you will play a critical role in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex failures across GPU-accelerated server platforms deployed in rack-level and data center environments. This is a highly technical, hands-on role focused on server bring-up, system-level debug, and rack integration troubleshooting involving CPU, GPU, memory, PCIe, networking, power delivery, and thermal subsystems.

You will leverage advanced electrical, firmware, and platform-level diagnostic tools to uncover root causes of failures impacting system stability, performance, and reliability in multi-node server environments. You will collaborate closely with platform design, firmware, validation, manufacturing, and quality teams to improve product robustness, accelerate debug cycles, and drive corrective actions across deployed infrastructure.

This role requires deep experience with server platforms - not just component-level FA - including rack-level interactions, BIOS/BMC behavior, and data center operational environments.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and thrives in fast-paced, high-visibility debug environments. You are comfortable owning complex investigations involving hardware, firmware, power sequencing, and system interoperability across multi-node GPU servers.

You are experienced in server bring-up and rack-level troubleshooting and can clearly translate technical findings into structured RCA/FMEA documentation and actionable design improvements. You are equally comfortable working independently in lab environments and cross-functionally with design, firmware, validation, and manufacturing teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform component-, server-, and rack-level failure analysis on GPU-accelerated server platforms.
• Debug and isolate complex platform issues involving CPU, GPU, memory, PCIe, networking, storage, and peripheral subsystems.
• Troubleshoot server bring-up failures including POST issues, BIOS/UEFI misconfiguration, PCIe enumeration failures, and firmware interaction problems.
• Analyze BIOS, BMC, IPMI, and system logs to identify hardware/firmware interaction issues impacting system stability.
• Diagnose rack-level failures including power distribution issues, thermal interactions, multi-node communication problems, and system integration defects.
• Utilize advanced electrical and system-level test equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and power integrity measurement tools.
• Replicate and isolate field failures within lab environments to accelerate root cause identification.
• Investigate system-level failures such as boot instability, performance degradation, thermal throttling, GPU errors, and interoperability issues.
• Create formal, concise RCA/FMEA reports detailing failure reproduction steps, data analysis, root causes, and corrective actions.
• Drive corrective actions with design, firmware, validation, and manufacturing teams to improve Design for Reliability (DfR), Design for Testability (DfT), and Design for Serviceability (DfS).
• Develop and maintain debug guides, SOPs, and knowledge bases to accelerate future troubleshooting efforts.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Hands-on experience debugging server platforms in data center or rack-level environments.
• Strong background in GPU server systems and multi-node infrastructure.
• Experience troubleshooting power sequencing, PCIe subsystems, memory training issues, and thermal management in server platforms.
• Familiarity with BIOS/UEFI, BMC, IPMI, and firmware-level debugging.
• Proficiency using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and power analyzers for system-level debug.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally to drive systemic corrective actions and reliability improvements.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering required; Master's Degree in Electrical or Systems Engineering preferred.

LOCATION: Austin, Tx (Onsite)

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