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The Principal Chipset Project Engineer – Hardware PCB/Platform Systems for Personal Compute joins the Chipset Systems & Architecture team to lead platform and PCB strategy across the personal compute product portfolio. This leadership role involves defining hardware platform architecture, driving cost-optimized system decisions, and influencing future roadmaps. The engineer will lead early architectural trade-off decisions regarding cost, power, performance, and risk while managing targets for PCB area and bill of materials. Key responsibilities include engaging with vendors, OEMs, and ODMs to ensure manufacturable designs and establishing execution playbooks for scalable solutions. The role requires expertise in PCB architecture fundamentals, including layer stack-up, routing density, power delivery networks, signal integrity, and power integrity. The work focuses on optimizing chipset interfaces, power grids, and platform reuse for competitive PC solutions.
Lead early PCB architectural trade-off decisions regarding cost, power, performance, and risk.
Set and own targets for PCB cost, area, and bill of materials.
Drive PCB competitiveness by minimizing layer count, stack-up, and board area.
Engage with vendors, OEMs, and ODMs to align on manufacturable and cost-effective designs.
Establish best practices and execution playbooks for cost-driven platform and PCB architecture.
Influence future chipset and platform roadmaps using competitive analysis and execution experience.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
12+ years of experience in hardware platform architecture and PCB design with a focus on the personal computer (PC) segment (preferred).
Strong understanding of PCB architecture fundamentals, including layer drivers, stack-up trade-offs, routing density, and cost impacts (preferred).
Strong knowledge of power delivery networks (PDN), signal integrity (SI), and power integrity (PI) (preferred).
Proven track record of making early architectural decisions impacting platform cost, complexity, manufacturability, and scalability (preferred).
Master’s, Electrical Engineering, or Compute Engineering (preferred).