Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Overview

Qualcomm Cloud System Hardware Engineering team develops rack-level AI inference solutions for next-generation liquid-cooled data centers. We are expanding and seeking experienced engineers to contribute to innovative AI products.

• Participate in schematics design, PCB layouts, design reviews, component selections, mechanical and thermal designs, and develop test plans.
• Assist in developing functional specifications for systems, cards, sub-systems, and rack-level architectures.
• Collaborate with internal teams and ODMs to develop and support customer-specific hardware and system requirements.
• Facilitate consensus on technical trade-offs at hardware, software, and chip design levels.
• Support architecture and card designs including accelerator SoCs, memory, I/O, power delivery, electrical/mechanical integration, and PCB definition/design.
• Participate in the design and development of rack-level inference solutions, aligning with customer requirements and system-level performance goals.
• Assist in bring-up and debugging of hardware systems, cards, and rack-level configurations.
• Support factory and manufacturing processes, ensuring quality and consistency across rack-level deployments.
• Travel to development and customer sites as needed to support rack-level solution deployment and validation.

• Minimum 5+ years in system/card/rack-level development.
• Rack-Level
  
  Experience:
  
  familiarity with rack-level system integration (chassis, backplane, cabling, airflow, thermal management), rack-scale power delivery (PDUs, VRMs, PMICs), diagnostics and bring-up, signaling integrity, EMI/shielding, and data center deployment standards; collaboration with ODMs/OEMs on design, thermal simulations, and compliance testing.
• Board-Level Design: knowledge of PCIe cards, motherboards, daughter cards, and backplane signal/power delivery.
• Component
  
  Qualification:
  
  experience qualifying PMICs, voltage regulators, clock buffers, flash memory, and connectors for complex cards.
• Design & Validation: experience in dense, high-layer-count PCBs (8–20+ layers); familiarity with JTAG tools for bring-up and debug.
• High-Speed Interfaces: knowledge of high-speed serial I/O (6–10+ Gbps), PCIe Gen5/6, LPDDR4x/5x, DDR4/5, 200/400/800 GbE; experience with long PCB/cable topologies and signal integrity; ability to debug at packet/protocol level.
• Memory & Clocking: LPDDR4x memory, DIMM layout and validation; clock distribution, power distribution, SMBus, PMBus, SPI, PWM/Tach, and BMC integration.
• Tools &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  experience driving schematic capture and PCB layout tools; use of lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, SMBus, serial debuggers).
• Firmware & Software: understanding of x86 FW/SW stack and firmware architecture; BMC hardware/software integration.
• Compliance & Testing: familiarity with regulatory, environmental, and compliance testing for rack-level systems.
• Networking and Switch: familiarity with PCIe switch design/debug, networking topology, and Ethernet switch hardware.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; 5+ years of hardware engineering experience or related work experience.
• Or Master’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 4+ years hardware engineering/systems development experience.
• Or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field with relevant experience.

• Master’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of circuit design experience (digital, analog, RF).
• 2+ years of experience with schematic capture and circuit simulation software.
• 2+ years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, debug tools).

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