Senior Hardware Design Engineer

San Jose, CA, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 1 day ago
Contract Corp To Corp
Contract Independent
Contract W2
12 Months
No Travel Required
On-site
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • FPGA
  • Allegro
  • Mixed-signal Integrated Circuit
  • PCB Design
  • Signal Integrity
  • hardware design
  • Altera Quartus
  • Hardware Development

Summary

Senior Hardware Design Engineer with extensive expertise in embedded hardware design, high-speed digital systems, power electronics, FPGA-based platforms, and product development. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience across the complete product lifecycle from requirements of definition and architecture through design, validation, compliance testing, and production release.

This role requires strong technical leadership, system-level thinking, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, and quality engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Hardware Architecture & Design

  • Candidate should be able to drives end-to-end development of high-level architecture of FPGA platform and translates platform-level requirements to circuit and component-level specifications.
    • Define hardware architecture, block diagrams, and design specifications for embedded systems.
  • Experience with successfully implementing various high-speed memory, Video, IO, and network interfaces
  • Design analog, digital, mixed-signal, FPGA-based, and high-speed electronic boards.
  • Develop schematics, BOMs, PCB stack-ups, and design documentation.
  • Perform component selection considering performance, reliability, cost, and lifecycle requirements.
  • Design and validate power supply circuits, power distribution networks & Power integrity designs.
  • EDA tool exposure ( Concept HDL, OrCAD, Allegro, Ansys, Hyper Lynx)
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Product Development

  • Review of the multi-disciplinary platform-level (Lz) requirements and translating into design.
  • Participate in requirements gathering, feasibility analysis, effort estimation, and project planning.
  • Drive end-to-end product development from concept through production release.
  • Support new product introduction (NPI) and manufacturing transfer activities.
  • Coordinate with vendors for component procurement, PCB fabrication, and assembly.

Board Bring-Up & Validation

  • Lead hardware bring-up, debugging, and system integration activities.
  • Conduct functional testing, design verification testing (DVT), and system testing.
  • Perform power integrity, timing analysis, signal integrity evaluation, and root-cause debugging.
  • Collaborate closely with firmware teams for interface validation and troubleshooting.
  • Hands on experience on different instrument like oscilloscope, logic analyser and other equipment
  • Verilog experience and working with Quartus design tools is a plus
  • Hands-on debugging skills is a must

Compliance & Reliability

  • Develop EMI/EMC test plans and support certification activities.
  • Ensure compliance with industrial safety, reliability, and regulatory standards.
  • Analyze test failures and implement corrective design improvements.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work closely with firmware, software, mechanical, CAD, manufacturing, and quality teams.
  • Participate in technical reviews and customer discussions.
  • Prepare technical documentation, design reports, and engineering release packages.

Required Technical Skills

Hardware Design

  • Analog, Digital, and Mixed-Signal Design
  • High-Speed Board Design and Debugging
  • FPGA-Based System Design
  • Power Supply Design - Good to have
  • Embedded Hardware Development
  • Signal Integrity and PCB Design - Overview understanding

PCB Design Tools

  • Cadence Allegro
  • Altium Designer
  • AutoCAD

Simulation Tools

  • LTSpice
  • TINA

Communication Interfaces

  • USB
  • PCIe / CXL
  • Ethernet (10/100/1000)
  • BLE
  • SPI
  • I2C
  • CAN
  • RS232
  • RS485

Lab & Debug Tools

  • Digital Oscilloscopes
  • Logic Analyzers
  • Signal Generators
  • Multimeters

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor''s Degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering (or equivalent).
  • 10+ years of experience in embedded hardware design and product development.
  • Proven experience in industrial, consumer, medical, or related product domains.
  • Strong understanding of PCB stack-up, routing guidelines, EMI/EMC, reliability, and manufacturing processes.
  • Experience with board bring-up, system integration, and production support.
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and technical leadership skills
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  • Dice Id: 10196450
  • Position Id: KS_HW_Design_CA
  • Posted 1 day ago
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