Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider, is seeking to hire an exceptional Applications Engineer to join our Datacenter Product team in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Candidates will be joining some of the brightest inventors and engineers in the world to enable the Rambus CXL Memory Interconnect Initiative. 

We are seeking an experienced Senior Principal Applications Engineer with hardware design and lab debug expertise to support US and international Rambus customers.  The ideal candidate will have extensive experience interfacing with Tier 1 Datacenter customers and OEMs balancing technical expertise with a hyper focus on customer support.   

The Applications Engineer will provide inputs to pre-sales engagements, inform product requirements, collaborate, and negotiate with the engineering team, build proof-of-concept designs, provide customer training, analyze, and debug complex technical issues involving PCIe/CXL/DDR Protocol and signal integrity as well as server and BIOS operation and interaction. As an Applications Engineer, the candidate will be reporting to the Director of Applications Engineering and is a Full-Time position. 

Responsibilities

• Analyze and debug complex technical issues involving silicon, firmware, system software/hardware and bring customer issues to a satisfactory conclusion. 
• Support technical qualification of new chip designs to secure customer design wins. 
• Assist with validation and debug of new datacenter products. 
• Collect and analyze signal integrity data, protocol traces, and debug logs at the system level. 

• Present technical updates to customers and company management in writing and verbally via quality presentations. 
• Prepare technical documentation such as datasheets, user guides and application notes. 

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of the PCIe protocol and electrical sub-systems including experience with analyzers 

• Experience with DDR4/5 memory operation is desirable 
• Good understanding of signal integrity issues up to 16 GHz and higher. 
• Experience with I2C/I3C serial interfaces 
• Experience presenting complex solutions to customers at the senior engineering and director level 
• Extensive experience with probing, high speed oscilloscopes and other lab equipment. 

• History of using fundamental root cause techniques (fishbone, design of experiments, etc.) to solve complex problems. 
• Ability to use scripting languages such as Perl, Tcl or Python to analyze data log text files and automate system and bench testing. 
• Ability to travel to customer sites as needed, including international travel. 
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English. 
• BS degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or related field. 

• 10+ years of experience in hardware design or validation at the chip and module level. 

About Rambus 

With 30 years of innovation and semiconductor expertise, Rambus leads the industry with products and solutions speed performance, expand capacity and improve security for today's most demanding applications. From data center and edge to artificial intelligence and automotive, our interface and security IP, and memory interface chips enable SoC and system designers to deliver their vision of the future.  

Rambus offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, bonus, equity and employee benefits. 

   
Rambus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.  

Rambus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may let us know in the application. 

For more information about Rambus, visit rambus.com. For additional information on life at Rambus and our current openings, check out rambus.com/careers/.