Hardware Design Engineer – Application Engineering, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Hardware Engineeri

Position: Hardware Design Engineer – Application Engineering, Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Hardware Engineeri
## Hardware Design Engineer – Application Engineering, Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Apply Now Find out how well you match with this jobJob :
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** Company:
** Qualcomm Canada ULC##
** Job Area:
** Engineering Group, Engineering Group  Hardware Engineering
** General

Summary:

** As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products.

Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.
** New Position
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* Minimum Qualifications:

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* • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR  Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR  PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
** Hardware Design Engineer, Staff – Application Engineering
**** About the Role
** We are seeking a highly motivated
** Staff Hardware Design Engineer
** to join our Application Engineering team supporting next-generation Optical DSP, Active Electrical Cable (AEC), and Optical Transceiver solutions for AI and cloud  this role, you will be responsible for the design, development, bring-up, validation, and support of evaluation platforms used for customer engagements, product characterization, and application development. You will work closely with Application Engineering and Hardware Engineering to accelerate product adoption and enable customer success.

The ideal candidate combines strong board-level hardware design expertise with hands-on laboratory debugging experience and a deep understanding of high-speed signal integrity and power integrity challenges in 100G/lane, 200G/lane, and future 400G/lane PAM4 systems.
** What You'll Do
**** Evaluation Board Development
*** Independently own EVB development projects from specification through validation.
* Create hardware specifications, design documents, schematics, PCB layout requirements, assembly guidelines, and validation plans.
* Lead hardware bring-up and debugging efforts for application engineering platforms.
* Act as the hardware expert supporting both internal engineering teams and external customers.
* Drive signal integrity and power integrity analysis to support successful product deployment.
* Serve as the primary hardware liaison for application engineering activities..
** EVB Bring-Up, Validation & Debug
*** Lead first-power-on and bring-up activities for newly developed hardware platforms.
* Perform board-level debug involving:
* Perform root-cause analysis and drive corrective actions for hardware issues.
* Support system characterization and reliability testing activities.
** Customer Optical Transceiver Support
*** Support customers integrating DSP products into optical transceivers and AEC platforms.
* Review customer schematic designs and PCB layouts.
* Assist customers in resolving hardware-related issues during design and deployment phases.
* Work directly with customer hardware teams during bring-up and qualification activities.
** Power Integrity & Power Delivery Design
*** Analyze power delivery…