Sr. Hardware Engineer

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This is a role 100% onsite in San Jose, Ca.

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to support the design and development of next-generation networking platforms as a backfill for a critical engineering role. In this position, you will lead hardware architecture, design, validation, and performance optimization activities for advanced routers, network switches, and high-speed networking products, including systems supporting up to 800G interfaces and line cards.

You will work closely with software, PCB layout, mechanical, applications, manufacturing, and validation teams to solve complex technical challenges and deliver robust, high-performance products. This role is ideal for an experienced hardware engineer who thrives in high-speed digital system design and enjoys owning hardware development from architecture through product validation.

• Develop hardware architectures for next-generation routers, network switches, and high-speed networking products.
• Lead requirements analysis, high-level design, schematic capture, critical component selection, and hardware design analysis.
• Select and integrate processors, systems-on-chip, DDR memory, GPUs, FPGAs, network switches, PCIe switches, clocking devices, and power-management components.
• Define PCB stack-ups that meet product thickness, signal speed, power architecture, and trace impedance requirements.
• Perform pre-layout and post-layout signal-integrity analysis, including clock-jitter, eye-diagram, crosstalk, DDR, and SERDES simulations.
• Conduct power-integrity and thermal analyses, including voltage-drop, current-density, plane-noise, decoupling, component hot-spot, heat-sink, and thermal-interface-material evaluations.
• Support board bring-up, electrical validation, stress testing, and board-level functional testing while collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.

• Seven +years of experience in network hardware engineering, including hardware architecture or product development for routers, network switches, telecommunications equipment, or comparable high-speed electronic systems.
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• Strong experience designing and analyzing high-speed digital interfaces, including DDR, SERDES, PCIe, clocking circuits, and advanced networking interfaces such as 800G.
• Hands-on experience with PCB stack-up development and pre-layout and post-layout signal-integrity and power-integrity analysis.
• Understanding of the selection and integration of processors, systems-on-chip, FPGAs, GPUs, memory, network switches, clocking devices, and power-management components.
• Experience with schematic development, thermal analysis, board bring-up, electrical validation, design verification, stress testing, and board-level functional testing.
• Demonstrate strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to resolve complex hardware issues and work effectively across engineering teams.

The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is $73,000 - $174,000.

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