Senior Hardware Engineer

Role Overview

This is a lead role with full ownership of high-speed evaluation boards from start to finish — from initial specification and design through schematic capture, layout, bring-up, characterization, and debug.

The role has a strong lab focus, with responsibility for driving high-speed measurement and validation on the bench, including work with BERTs and high-speed oscilloscopes. You will set the technical direction for our test board hardware and partner with analog, digital, and test automation teams to define next-generation evaluation platforms.

Work Model: Hybrid — on-site lab/bench work combined with remote flexibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Full Board Ownership: Lead and take full ownership of high-speed/RF boards from specification through design, schematic capture, PCB layout, BOM, bring-up, test, and debug.
• RF Signal Path Design: Design RF signal paths with careful attention to impedance matching, microstrip/stripline routing, connector selection, and launch structures for operation up to 64 GHz.
• Power Delivery: Design low-noise power delivery networks using LDO regulators appropriate for sensitive analog and RF measurement environments.
• Converter Characterization: Characterize high-speed ADC and DAC devices, including SNDR, SFDR, THD, and dynamic range measurements.
• Signal Integrity: Measure and interpret S-parameters to validate board signal integrity and RF performance across the full frequency range.
• High-Speed Lab Validation: Lead high-speed measurement and validation on the bench, including BERT bit-error-rate testing, eye-diagram/jitter analysis, and high-speed oscilloscope characterization.
• Digital Integration: Integrate FPGA or microcontroller subsystems on test boards to enable automated stimulus, data capture, and instrument control.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with analog, digital, and test automation engineers to define specifications for next-generation evaluation boards.
• Documentation: Clearly and thoroughly document board designs, test procedures, and characterization results.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of hands-on PCB design and hardware bring-up experience
• Demonstrated experience characterizing high-speed ADC or DAC devices
• High-speed/RF PCB design experience, including controlled impedance, grounding, shielding, and high-frequency connector and launch design
• Proficiency designing high-speed/RF schematics and layouts using industry-standard EDA tools
• Strong working knowledge of S-parameters and VNA measurement techniques
• Experience with low-noise LDO selection and power supply layout best practices for analog/RF environments
• Experience with SERDES and the JESD204B high-speed serial interface in an ADC/DAC evaluation environment
• Hands-on proficiency with BERTs, high-speed oscilloscopes, VNAs, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators

Desirable Qualifications

• FPGA development experience, including RTL design, embedded firmware, or board-level integration
• Microcontroller (MCU) integration on test boards for stimulus, data capture, and instrument control
• Python scripting for test automation, instrument control (VISA/PyVISA), and data analysis
• Experience designing or characterizing boards at mmWave frequencies above 30 GHz
• Familiarity with JESD204C or other emerging high-speed converter interface standards
• Familiarity with high-speed SERDES at 224G
• Experience with high-speed lab testing, including BERT, high-speed oscilloscopes, eye/jitter analysis, and bit-error-rate measurements
• Ability to test ADC and DAC devices and clearly present product performance to technical and cross-functional audiences
• Experience in a fabless semiconductor or IC design environment

Key Skills at a Glance

Required

• PCB design — 5+ years
• Board bring-up and debug
• High-speed lab testing — BERT, oscilloscope, eye/jitter, BER
• RF design up to 64 GHz
• S-parameters and VNA
• ADC/DAC characterization
• Low-noise LDO design
• JESD204B
• SERDES

Desirable

• Python test automation
• ADC/DAC performance reporting and presentation
• FPGA development
• MCU integration
• mmWave (>30 GHz)
• JESD204C
• 224G SERDES