Seeking an experienced Hardware Board Design Engineer with 8+ years of expertise in designing and delivering complex hardware platforms. This role is responsible for driving endâtoâend board designâfrom capturing platform-level requirements to supporting architects in defining system design strategies, schematic development, component selection, and platform bringâup. The candidate should possess in depth technical knowledge in highâspeed digital, analog, and mixed-signal designs. Exposure to silicon validation and characterization platforms will be good to have.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the endâtoâend design and development of hardware platforms, translating based on system architecture and specifications.
Expertise in complex processor-, FPGA-, and ASICâbased systems, ensuring alignment with platform performance, power, thermal, and cost objectives.
Develop and review circuit designs, simulations, and tradeâoff analyses to ensure robust and scalable hardware solutions.
Review PCB design rules, including component placement, highâspeed routing constraints, stackâup definitions, and signal/power integrity considerations. Review design simulations (SI/PI/Thermal) results.
Responsible to drive the schematic capture, PCB layout, and design package creation from feasibility through tapeâout.
Evaluate and optimize BOM cost, part availability, and risk mitigation strategies for the platform.
Lead board bring-up, power-on, and platform debug activities in collaboration with architects, validation engineers, and system integration teams.
Resolve complex system-level issues across electrical, firmware, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing domains.
Work closely with cross-functional teams including architecture, verification, validation, firmware, manufacturing, and customer engineering.
Integrate feedback to continuously refine design methodologies and enhance platform robustness.
Bachelorâs or Masterâs degree in Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
8+ years of experience in hardware board design life-cycle.
Strong expertise in processor, FPGA, and SoC-based system design.
Proficiency in circuit design, analysis, and simulation.
Hands-on experience with key EDA tools such as Concept HDL, OrCAD, Allegro or equivalent.
Expertise in highâspeed digital, analog, and mixed-signal design principles.
Experience in embedded, telecom, or RF-based hardware platforms is a plus.
Exposure to thermal and mechanical design review and integration is an added advantage.
(Advantageous) Experience in silicon validation, electrical characterization, test card design, or platform enablement for early silicon bring-up.
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