Hardware Engineer (Entry Level)

HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing. Our $4 billion annual R&D investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies so we can better serve customers and enter new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of our customers.Business environment:

HP has the world's second largest computer research laboratory. We invent new technologies and innovative information products. Change markets. Create business opportunities.

We also help to plan and broaden company strategy, and deliver the science and technology that achieves it. And that gives HP leadership.

We're focused on e-services…technologies and solutions. On internet and computing platforms, printing and imaging technologies, storage and intelligent information appliances, and we're chasing down broader alternative technologies and basic research.

On manufacturing sites we turn foundation technology from HP labs into real solutions. We're getting smarter. Acting sharper. Moving faster. Getting people off the bench and into customer sites to speed up time to market. Heading for zero-time technology transfer

At HP, we in R&D don't just dream about the future. We invent it.

Job description:
Hardware Engineers lead or work in project teams delivering and documenting new products.

Expert in your chosen technology, you'll explore and develop opportunities, evaluate hardware performance, investigate, integrate, develop, define and validate models for manufacturing and manage vendors.

If you work in the R&D department of a manufacturing site, you will also specify and deliver hardware solutions ready for manufacturing.

The ideal candidate will have experience in hard disk drives (HDD) used in Enterprise storage environments. This experience could involve either HDD hardware/firmware development, HDD qualification, HDD manufacturing/test and failure analysis, and/or HDD integration testing in the end-user enterprise storage environment. The ability to develop and maintain the various HDD test tools (using C++), would be very desirable." REQUIREMENTS
Education
Bachelor's (undergraduate) degree in Computer Science, Computer, Electronics, or Electrical Engineering.

Experience and Skills
Practical (intern or co-op) or applied hardware design work experience including C/C++, Windows, UNIX, Assembler and signal programming skills; product life cycle execution: definition, simulation, design, verification and test prototyping, debugging, qualification, release to production, etc.; experience with storage industry (data or network), personal computers, electronic appliances, or hand-held devices, printers, scanners, fax, or other telecommunication products; experience with technologies required for developing internet connected devices.

Applied experience in one or more of these areas: analog, mechanical, SIC/PAL/PLD, PC board, power system, or high level system design; computer server and I/O technologies, micro-processing, CAD tools/languages (Cadence, Mentor, Solid Designer, SPICE, Synopsis, Verilog, VHDL), electrical signal analysis, thermo analysis, USB firewire, VLSI design/architecture, etc.

Commitment and self-motivation

Fluency in English and local language