Failure Analysis Engineer - Server PCBA Design - Power - NJ, Secaucus_Meadowlands, United States

Originally posted 11 September 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role owns end-to-end hardware root cause analysis for server PCBAs, with primary depth in power delivery, PDBs, bridge boards, sequencing, connectors, and board-level electrical interfaces. The role leads RCA for bring-up, factory, customer, and system-level failures by isolating board-level issues through schematic and layout review, SI/PI assessment, rail behavior analysis, component-level electrical debug, imaging, fault isolation, and lab evidence.

What you'll do

• Lead hardware failure analysis and root cause ownership for server PCBA bring-up, factory, customer, and system-level issues.
• Own technical FA across distribution paths, VRs, hot-swap circuits, connectors, cables, sequencing, and related motherboard or high-speed IO interactions.
• Develop diagnostic strategy and execute structured debug plans using design reviews, oscilloscope captures, logic analyzer traces, imaging results, and electrical measurements.
• Perform board- and component-level electrical debug for shorts/opens, marginal devices, rail droop, sequencing failures, SI/PI symptoms, and connector issues.
• Automate debug data collection, log parsing, telemetry review, register analysis, electrical data analysis, and failure correlation using Python, Linux tools, SQL, scripting, and data analysis workflows.
• Create technical reports, executive summaries, debug timelines, and 8D-style documentation that communicate failure mode, evidence, root cause, impact, and corrective actions.

What you'll need

• Experience with server PCBA debug across power distribution, PDBs, bridge boards, and complex compute, GPU, accelerator, or hyperscale platforms.
• Ability to review schematics and layouts, apply SI/PI fundamentals, and perform component-level electrical debug.
• Hands-on proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, digital multimeters, power supplies, imaging tools, and fault isolation techniques.
• Experience analyzing electrical captures, visual evidence, schematic and layout data, POST codes, register state, event logs, and telemetry streams.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Nice to have

• Experience debugging server PDBs, bridge boards, power distribution paths, VRs, hot-swap circuits, connectors, cables, GPU/accelerator platforms, or rack-scale systems.
• PCBA failure analysis competency across schematic and layout review, component-level debug, rails, VRs, clocks, resets, sequencing, connectors, cables, SI/PI, and interconnect initialization.
• Ability to isolate failures across hardware design, board assembly, component quality, layout effects, SI/PI behavior, manufacturing process, diagnostics, system configuration, and firmware-controlled hardware boundaries.
• Working knowledge of power integrity, sequencing, PDB architectures, high-speed IO, PCIe/link behavior, retimers, and signal path dependencies.
• Experience with structured problem solving, 8D, server power debug, PDB or bridge board validation, platform bring-up, factory issue resolution, supplier quality, or customer FA processes.
• Desired backgrounds include server power design, PDB design or validation, bridge board IO debug, hardware RCA leadership, AI GPU platforms, accelerator systems, or complex compute failure analysis.