Nicholas Hu

DDR Memory Systems Engineer

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

About

Electrical Engineer with wing-to-wing product development expertise and diverse engineering background in firmware engineering, microcontrollers, RF/mixed-signal circuit design, medical devices, and space science. Result-driven and detail-oriented fast learner with the ability to grasp new concepts/skills for immediate implementation. Major experience lies in working in a team environment and utilize AGILE methodology and GIT to ensure smooth firmware development. Able to achieve high code quality by designing unit tests with good code coverage and perform firmware and hardware debugging to root cause issues in a fast-paced and high-pressured uncertain environment. Knowledge in: -Firmware engineering -GIT -CI/CD -SoC development -DDR SDRAM and JEDEC standards -Analog and RFIC Design -PCB Design -MRI systems -RF and microwave instrumentation design -RF and microwave test equipment -3D Electromagnetic FDTD simulations -3D Electromagnetic Finite Element simulations -MRI RF Coil Design -Antenna design -Receiver design -Software Defined Radio (SDR) -Digital communication systems -Signal conditioning and automated data acquisition system design -Stochastic processes and detection algorithms -Data analytics -Plasma diagnostics -Vacuum systems -Laboratory hands-on and hardware troubleshooting skills Tools: GIT, JIRA, GOOGLETEST, GCOVR, CADENCE, ADS, AWR MICROWAVE OFFICE, HFSS, GNU RADIO, MULTISIM, ULTIBOARD. Languages: C, BASH, PYTHON, CMAKE, SQL, HSPICE, MATLAB, VISUAL BASIC, FORTRAN, LABVIEW. Proficient in Linux environment.

Experience

  • Montage Technology, Inc (Suwanee, Georgia, United States · On-site)
    • Staff Software Engineer
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

      - CXL memory controller DDR Signal Integrity Tool development

    • Senior Software Engineer III
      Aug 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

      - CXL memory controller DDR margining tool development

  • Rambus (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area · On-site)
    • Senior Member of Technical Staff - Firmware Engineering
      Mar 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      - CXL memory controller firmware design

    • Senior Member of Technical Staff - Analog Engineering
      Jun 2020 - Mar 2021 · 10 mos

      - LRDIMM buffer chip mixed-signal circuit design

  • GE Healthcare (Greater Milwaukee Area)
    • Lead Digital Analytics Software Engineer - MRI
      Feb 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • NPI and IB Project Lead • Data Analytics • Automated Hardware Anomaly Detection Algorithm Development

    • RF Electrical Engineer - MRI
      Sep 2015 - Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      • CAPA/FMI Project Lead • IB Project Lead • NPI Project Support • High Power RF Circuit Design • Automated Test Equipment Development

  • Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Tech
    Aug 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Research on “Spectrum monitoring system for the L Band” -Designed and assembled RF front-end and RF back-end of a superheterodyne receiver with high sensitivity using connectorized LNAs, amplifiers, filters, mixers, bias-Ts, synthesizers, and RF switches. -The receiver achieves a gain of 67 dB, a bandwidth of 10 MHz, and MDS of -120 dBm. -RF signal is sub-Nyquist sampled at 100 MSPS, and digitally down-converted to DC by a software-defined radio (USRP N200) before being streamed to a host computer via Gigabit Ethernet interface. -Designed and implemented transistor based digital control circuit boards and power supply circuit boards. -The digital control circuit boards are controlled by NI USB-6501 and LabVIEW to perform input switching (between the antenna and a matched load) for receiver calibration.

  • Research Assistant at National Central University
    Aug 2009 - Jul 2011 · 2 yrs

    Scientific payloads for sounding rockets and satellites -Built scientific instruments including a Langmuir Probe system which could be mounted on sounding rockets for ionospheric plasma measurements. -Designed and simulated analog pre-amplifier and digital controller circuits using EDA tools. -Established PCB layouts using EDA tools. -Designed data acquisition boards with micro-controllers and A/D converters that communicate with computers via serial interfaces such as RS-232 and RS-422. -Designed graphical user interfaces for data acquisition with Visual Basic and LabVIEW. -Conducted tests on prototypes in a space plasma simulation vacuum chamber.