Debug Engineer

TekWissen LLC

Santa Clarita, CA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$55–$59
SKILLS
8D, Acceptance Testing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Bash Scripting, Broadband, Case Management, Channel Strategies, Communication Skills, Computer Engineering, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Goods and Services, Corrective Action, Cross-Functional, Data Analysis, Debugging Skills, Debugging Tools, Detail Oriented, Diversity, Failure Analysis, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), Hardware Administration, Hardware Debugging, Hardware Design, Linux Operating System, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Operations, Mechanical Assembly, Microprocessor, Motherboards, National Intelligence Council (NIC), PCI Express (PCI-E), Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quality Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Salesforce.com, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Semiconductor Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Team Player, Test Scripts, Testing, Trend Analysis, Vehicle Driving, Workforce Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Santa Clarita, CA
POSTED
1 day ago

Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Austin, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. Global company that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing. The company also produces flash memories, graphics processors, motherboard chip sets, and a variety of components used in consumer electronics goods.

Job Title: Debug Engineer 1

Duration: 3 Months
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Job Type: Temporary assignment
Work Type: Onsite (3-month contract with potential for full-time conversion)Employment Type

Job Description:

The Role

The ideal candidate is a hands-on hardware engineer with strong debugging skills, a disciplined approach to root-cause analysis, and experience with high-speed systems in Linux-based environments. You are detail-oriented, collaborative, and comfortable driving complex issues through resolution. You communicate clearly and effectively across engineering, operations, and manufacturing teams, and can drive cross-functional agendas with confidence. You actively seek out AI-powered tools and approaches to work more efficiently and expect them to be part of your everyday workflow.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and track failure cases and RMA workflows in Salesforce; develop and maintain automation to streamline validation and reporting; support Salesforce UAT activities as required
  • Lead failure analysis of returned Client's Pensando DPU and AI NIC hardware; perform structured RCA and author FA and 8D reports with actionable corrective actions
  • Develop and maintain diagnostic scripts, test procedures, RMA validation workflows, and custom debug tooling using Python, Bash, or equivalent
  • Identify recurring failure trends through data analysis and partner with Hardware, Design, and Manufacturing teams to drive systemic corrective actions
  • Support hardware debug in Linux-based environments, including mechanical assembly and cable routing review as part of failure investigations
  • Manage and track failure cases and RMA workflows in Salesforce; develop and maintain Salesforce-based automation to streamline validation workflows and reporting

Required Qualifications

  • Strong bias toward leveraging AI tools to accelerate debugging, automate repetitive workflows, and improve overall engineering efficiency
  • 5+ years of experience in hardware engineering, failure analysis, or related roles
  • Strong knowledge of DPUs, AI NICs, PCIe, and high-speed networking
  • Experience with Linux-based diagnostics
  • Proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages
  • Experience developing custom debug and validation tools
  • Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and align stakeholders across Hardware, Design, Manufacturing, and Operations teams

PREFERERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with Salesforce for case management or workflow tracking

Background in manufacturing quality, reliability engineering, or RMA processes

Academic Credentials

Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, or a related field preferred.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/