Senior Principal Engineer, Hardware Application Engineering — Board & System Design

United States·Santa Clarasenior

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Required Qualifications Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. 15+ years of hardware design, development,

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Requirements

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Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
15+ years of hardware design, development, and validation experience for high-speed networking or compute systems.
7+ years of board and system design experience supporting high-speed platforms with 25G NRZ to 112G/224G PAM4 SerDes.
Strong experience owning the complete board design lifecycle, including architecture, schematic design, layout guidance, board bring-up, and validation.
Experience developing and delivering hardware reference designs for customer or internal platform adoption.
Expertise in:
- High-speed PCB stack-up and material selection
- Power architecture for high-current ASICs (PDN, sequencing, decoupling, tolerance analysis)
- Thermal design and mechanical integration
- Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI)
Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, debugging, root-cause analysis, and lab equipment.
Strong knowledge of high-speed interfaces including Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, and modern SerDes technologies.
Experience with Design for Reliability (DFR), Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Testability (DFT).
Customer-facing experience supporting technical engagements and resolving deployment issues.
Excellent communication and technical presentation skills.

Experience with Ethernet switch platforms and AI networking/fabric architectures.
Experience designing platforms for hyperscale or megascale data centers.
Knowledge of ODM/CM manufacturing, qualification, and reliability testing.
Experience with advanced cooling technologies (liquid or immersion cooling).
Hands-on experience with Cadence Allegro/Sigrity or Mentor/Siemens Xpedition/HyperLynx.
Proven ability to influence product roadmaps and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities

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→Lead board and system hardware design for high-speed networking and AI platforms.
→Drive architecture, schematic development, PCB layout reviews, hardware validation, and board bring-up.
→Collaborate with silicon, firmware, and systems engineering teams to optimize platform performance.
→Review SI/PI analysis and support customer design reviews.
→Provide technical leadership during customer engagements and platform deployment.
→Develop technical documentation and deliver engineering training.
→Serve as the technical bridge between customers, hardware engineering, and silicon development teams