Technical Intern, PCB Layout Engineer

**Description**

**Invent the future with us.**

Recognized by Fast Company's 2023 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators List, Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient, sustainable cloud computing.

By providing a new level of predictable performance, efficiency, and sustainability Ampere is working with leading cloud suppliers and a growing partner ecosystem to deliver cloud instances, servers and embedded/edge products that can handle the compute demands of today and tomorrow.

Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we'd love to have you apply

**About the role**:

- As a Technical Intern, PCB Layout Engineer, you will help Layout project leads for a variety of high-speed PCB layouts for Chip validation, customer reference and layout review. You will review Gerber data, fab & assembly drawings for manufacturing. You will check new footprints to make sure they follow our rules and Datasheets.
- The team is an integral part of the server platform process that ensures our product gets the absolute highest quality products that meet their functional and performance requirements. Designing PCB for high-speed signals such as PCIe5, DDR5... is a very challenging and difficult job. Low cost and high density also make it more complicated. The PCB Layout Team at Ampere Computing comprises of stellar folks who have dedicated themselves to making the best product, collaborating with SI and Hardware teams to deal with problems, some challenges but very fun working.

**What you'll achieve**:

- Work with a team of engineers to perform component placement and Multi-Layer PCB routing.
- Talk to Mechanical team to exchange data between PCB and Mechanical.
- Build and maintain an Allegro Library database, create footprints.
- Optimize routing for high-speed signals and plane for power delivery.
- Export Gerber data to FAB and Assembly houses.

**About you**:

- Experience of some hardware projects at your school is preferred.
- Experience of Cadence Allegro, and PADS PCB tools.
- Experience of some aspects of PCB design: footprint, netlist, constraint setup, placement, routing, and generating Gerbers.
- General understanding of electronic circuits and chip functionality.
- Able to read and understand schematics.
- Good communication skills in English and Vietnamese.

**Education**:
**What we'll offer**:
At Ampere we believe in taking care of our interns and providing a competitive monthly stipend and allowance.

Benefits highlights include:

- Mentorship and on-the-job training from industry experts.
- Daily catered lunch, a variety of snacks, energizing coffee or tea, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.
- Intern events, cultural and engagement activities with the team and the company.

At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our interns to do more and grow more. We are excited to share more about our internship opportunities with you through the interview process.

Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.