Staff Engineer

Qualcomm Technologies

San Jose, CA • 23m ago • On-site

Senior

On-site

159,600 - 239,400 USD/yr

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Quick Facts

  • Role: Staff Engineer (Hardware Engineering)

  • Focus areas: electronic systems design, optimization, verification, and test

Description

You will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test critical electronic systems, including digital, analog, RF/optical systems, circuits, mechanical/equipment packaging, test systems, and potentially FPGA/DSP.

The role integrates complex functionality, runs simulations and analyses, and helps implement designs optimized for power, performance, and area. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve production yield, test time, and quality, and evaluate manufacturing, reliability, and potential design issues.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, optimize, verify, and test complex electronic systems and hardware bring-up

  • Integrate complex features into hardware designs aligned with product proposals/roadmaps

  • Conduct simulations and analyses; implement designs optimized for power, performance, and area

  • Collaborate with design, verification, validation, software, and systems engineering to incorporate new test solutions

  • Evaluate and develop novel manufacturing approaches; support bring-up to meet customer schedules

  • Evaluate reliability of materials, properties, and techniques; drive innovation, automation, and productivity optimization

  • Identify potential design flaws, compatibility issues, and compliance issues

  • Write detailed technical documentation for complex hardware projects

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field plus 4+ years of Hardware Engineering experience

  • OR Master’s degree plus 3+ years

  • OR PhD plus 2+ years

  • Verbal and written communication skills to convey complex technical information

  • Independent work with minimal supervision; provide supervision/guidance as needed

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation, including discretionary bonus and potential RSU grants

  • Highly competitive benefits package supporting work, home, and well-being

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