Hardware (Board) Design Engineer - Staff

General Summary:

As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

Staff Hardware Design Engineer responsible to design and deliver high quality boards for Automotive post silicon validation and customer reference platforms.

Experience and expertise:

• In this role, you will contribute towards design of post silicon validation boards as well as customer reference platforms for Qualcomm's Automotive SOCs.
• The role will involve hands-on HW architecture definition, schematics capture, providing CAD inputs and layout reviews, vendor interaction, BOM management, Board Bring up & validation and supporting internal and external customers.
• This role demands strong technical expertise to work independently and guide junior engineers as applicable, in all stages from requirements gathering and concept development, to production qualification and support.
• This role requires working closely with cross functional teams including CAD, Mechanical, Packaging, SI-PI, Manufacturing, component Engineering, procurement, product marketing, Silicon validation, Software & Customer Engineering teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in System Architecture, High-speed Hardware Board Design.
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering
• Supervisory or Managerial experience would be a plus

Preferred Experience/Qualifications:

• Highly skilled hands-on Engineer with minimum 10 years?? experience in the High-speed digital board design, high speed DRAM interfacing, power circuitry design with LDO, buck/boost regulators, non-volatile memory, processor/SOC based design, bring-up and debug skills.
• Hands-on experience EDA tools for schematic capture (Dx Designer preferred) and layout review, signal integrity etc. is required.
• Project level leadership experience is a must. Managerial experience is a plus.
• Expertise in full development life cycle (Requirements to Production Qualification and Support) and configuration management for managing associated documentation (BOMs, schematics, drawings etc.)
• Expertise in handling Lab equipment and test & measurement tools like oscilloscopes, multi-meters, signal generators, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, spectrum analyzers etc.
• Experience with FPGA/CPLD RTL design is desirable.
• Board design experience with high speed interfaces such as PCIE Gen5, USXGMII, UFS, USB 3.2/ USB4, is desired.
• Technical expertise with DDR memory like DDR3, DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR4, LPDDR5 etc. and non-volatile memory like UFS, eMMC, SD Card etc.
• Experience in designing hardware for semiconductor testing is desired.
• Familiarity with typical data and control interfaces (Examples include UART, USB, SPI, I2C etc.) is desired.
• Signal integrity simulation expertise is a plus.
• Must be self-driven and have good communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a multi-disciplined team and across sites.
• Good presentation skills required.
• We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic person, at Staff level, who can lead complex projects and is keen to develop a successful career within an innovative technological environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design of High-Speed board designs involving high speeds peripherals like PCIE Gen 5, USB3.2/USB4, USXGMII etc and memory interfaces like LPDDR5, UFS etc
• Publishing design specifications (i.e. Requirements, Architectural, Functional, Test, etc), test plans.
• Schematics drafting, Interfacing with Mechanical engineers for system level design and collaborating with CAD team in providing interface-wise design constraints and Layout reviews etc.
• Conducting Design reviews from concept phase to design release.
• Running Power integrity and Signal integrity simulations as required. Collaborating with SIPI teams for final signoffs.
• Interface with component engineering, vendors and manufacturing teams
• Releasing BOMs and detailed user guide with documentation control
• Support validation and SW teams during bring-up tests and debugging system level issues.
• Performing detailed DVT and publishing DVT reports
• Platform sustenance and support with internal and external customers
• Supporting debugs on failures seen in customer designs

Keywords:

Hardware, Board Design, System Design, High-speed Digital Design, FPGA, DRAM, DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR4, LPDDR5, UFS, PCIE, schematics, BoM, signal integrity, power integrity, SI-PI, power supplies, processors, SOCs.