Principal Hardware Design Engineer

Quick Facts

Role: Principal Hardware Design Engineer (Principal Hardware Engineer)

Team focus: Electronics for photonic switching products

Collaboration: Thermal, mechanical, firmware, and optical engineering

Description

Support the Electronics team for photonic switching products by architecting and delivering PCB hardware designs that meet overall system architecture and product requirements. Collaborate across thermal, mechanical, firmware, and optical disciplines, and develop test setups and bench software to characterize and debug analog, digital, and electro-optic circuitry.

Responsibilities

• Architect PCB hardware design from a functional requirements document
• Design and create schematics; oversee PCB layout of analog and digital circuitry (including DACs, ADCs, high-speed transceivers, FPGAs, microcontrollers, clock distribution, power supply filters, inrush current limiters, and power distribution)
• Ensure robust signal integrity and EMI suppression in all designs
• Design and create test setups for testing electro-optic modules
• Characterize, optimize, and debug analog, digital, and electro-optic circuitry using mixed-signal and sampling oscilloscopes, vector network analyzers, signal generators, multimeters, and DC power supplies
• Develop bench software to drive measurements
• Analyze data and extract key performance parameters
• Maintain detailed documentation of hardware designs, test results, and design changes
• Perform SI simulation using Cadence and Ansys tools

Requirements

• Master’s or PhD degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent
• 10 years of relevant experience in product development and release to volume manufacturing, including multiple successful commercial products
• Experience architecting PCB hardware from functional requirements
• Experience designing and laying out mixed analog/digital high-speed electronics and power/clock subsystems
• Experience with signal integrity and EMI suppression
• Experience building lab test setups and characterizing electro-optic modules
• Experience using bench instrumentation and mixed-signal measurement techniques

Benefits

• Competitive health coverage for you and dependents
• 401(k) with company match
• Equity grants
• Financial wellness tools and planning resources
• Wellness benefits and family support programs
• Life and disability insurance
• Paid leave programs, paid company holidays, discretionary time off, and end-of-year company shutdown
• Full-time roles may also include equity and benefits; base salary varies by geographic zone