Saadiah Ahmed

About Saadiah Ahmed

Sr. electrical design and validation engineer with over a decade of experience in board design for new product development. Exhibits strong technical breath in power electronics, analog circuit design, high speed digital design, audio systems and RF design, sensors and sensing systems, electrical safety and industry standards. Demonstrates excellent interpersonal and communication abilities; consistently recognized for leadership aptitude and organizational skills. Deep knowledge of complete product lifecycle management from designing, testing, and manufacturing across various industries (consumer electronics, server development, industrial O&G tools & systems). Extensive experience in leading product Verification and Validation (V&V) and failure analysis across diverse, cross-functional and inter-disciplinary teams. Passionate about new technologies that improve quality of life; enjoys teamwork, mentoring, task management and innovative technical challenges.

Experience

1. Sr Hardware Engineer - Azure

   Microsoft

   Feb 2022 — Present

   Played a key role in the motherboard design and platform integration of the ARM-based Cobalt 200 server processor for Azure data centers.• Owned LSIO interface architecture and validation across the server motherboard• Contributed to PCIe integration and collaborated on DDR subsystem review during platform bring-up• Drove cross-functional alignment to translate processor architecture requirements into scalable board-level implementation• Supported early silicon bring-up and system-level debug across hardware and firmware teams

Education

• Rice University

  Master of Electrical Engineering

  2017

• Texas A&M University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2012

Skills

• Process Control
• Electrical Engineering
• Labview
• Feed
• Pspice
• Petrochemical
• Power Electronics
• Embedded Systems
• Offshore Drilling
• Scada
• Simulations
• Control Systems Design
• Oilfield
• Testing
• Power Generation
• Power Systems
• Epc
• Dcs
• Engineering Management
• Electricity
• Onshore
• Instrumentation
• Upstream
• Electronics
• Microcontrollers
• Drilling
• Electricians
• Automation
• Power Distribution
• R&D
• Pcb Design
• Project Engineering
• Autocad
• Power Plants
• Inspection
• Simulink
• Matlab
• Petroleum
• Engineering
• Commissioning