Senior Staff Hardware Design Engineer

Qualcomm

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Work type: On-site
Location: Austin, TXSan Diego, CA
Salary: $169,800–$254,600 / yr
Posted: 26 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Mar 30, 2027
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Hardware Design Engineer

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The Hardware Design Engineer - Sr Staff joins the Qualcomm Cloud System Hardware and Validation Engineering team to develop rack-level AI inference solutions for next-generation liquid-cooled data centers. This role involves designing and developing motherboards, add-in cards, and modules for new AI System On Chip and System In Package technologies. Key responsibilities include leading schematics design, PCB layouts, component selection, and thermal management while collaborating with cross-functional teams and ODMs. The position requires expertise in high-speed interfaces like PCIe Gen5/6 and 400/800 GbE, as well as signal integrity, power delivery, and memory technologies like LPDDR4x/5x. Candidates must utilize tools such as Cadence Allegro, Mentor Expedition, and SPICE to solve complex hardware integration, bring-up, and debugging challenges across system, card, and rack-level architectures.

Skills

PCB Design Schematic Capture Cadence Allegro Mentor Expedition Signal Integrity Power Integrity SPICE PCIe Gen5/6 LPDDR4x/5x DDR4/5 Ethernet JTAG Oscilloscope Logic Analyzer x86 ARM BMC SMBus PMBus SPI PWM Thermal Management EMI Shielding Bring-up Debugging

What you'll do

Lead schematics design, PCB layouts, component selections, and mechanical and thermal designs for AI hardware.
Co-develop functional specifications for systems, cards, sub-systems, and rack-level architectures.
Support the design and integration of accelerator SoCs, memory, I/O, and power delivery systems.
Resolve architecture and design issues across system, card, and rack levels.
Assist in the bring-up and debugging of hardware systems, cards, and rack-level configurations.
Provide technical oversight of factory and manufacturing processes to ensure quality across rack-level deployments.
Coordinate with ODMs to develop customer-specific hardware requirements and deliver technical training.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of hardware engineering experience.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of hardware engineering experience.
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of hardware engineering experience.
Experience in system, card, and rack-level development including architecture, design, validation, and deployment of enterprise-class hardware platforms.
Expertise in rack-level system integration, including chassis, backplane, cabling, airflow, thermal management, and power delivery.
Proficiency in schematic capture and PCB layout tools like Cadence Allegro or Mentor Expedition, and circuit simulation tools like SPICE.
Experience with high-speed interfaces including PCIe Gen5/6, LPDDR4x/5x, and 200/400/800 GbE.
Master's Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field (preferred).
10+ years of hardware engineering or systems development experience (preferred).
4+ years of experience with circuit design and 4+ years with hardware measurement instruments (preferred).

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