Electrical Engineer

At Valve, electrical engineers deliver world‑class hardware products, such as Steam Deck, Valve Index, and Steam Controller. Across the electrical engineering group, we contribute in a variety of ways:

• Collaborate to define product goals
• Conceive, design, evaluate, and produce novel gaming hardware
• Work closely with contract manufacturers to prototype and produce hardware at scales from tens to millions of units

• Proven start‑to‑finish design skills with industry‑standard CAD/EDA tools (Altium Designer experience strongly preferred), including schematic entry, PCB layout, component definition, and CAD library management
• Hands‑on electronics prototyping experience, including soldering and rework of fine‑pitch SMT components
• Strong lab skills, including the use of common test and measurement equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.) to debug and characterize complex electronic circuits
• Experience with embedded systems design and common digital communication interfaces (USB, SPI, I2C)
• Experience working directly on‑site with manufacturing partners
• A proven track record of designing and shipping high‑volume consumer electronics products
• Experience in design for manufacture and design for test (DFM/DFT) of electronic devices
• Ability to think and work across a variety of subject areas
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience) in electrical engineering or a related field

• Analog circuit design and simulation (e.g., SPICE)
• Low‑power design, including battery management and charging circuits for portable devices
• RF/wireless circuit design, including design of antennas and EMC
• Firmware development for 8, 16, 32‑bit microcontrollers (e.g., ARM)
• High‑speed/HDI board design
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• High‑speed video interfaces (HDMI, Display Port, LVDS, MIPI)
• Regulatory compliance testing (e.g., FCC/CE/UL)
• C/C++ software development
• Test automation
• FPGA/ASIC design