Sr. Hardware Validation & Integration Engineer

Hardware Validation & Integration Engineer

Quest Global delivers world-class end-to-end engineering solutions by leveraging our deep industry knowledge and digital expertise. By bringing together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise, we are able to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most critical and large-scale challenges across the aerospace & defense, automotive, energy, hi-tech, healthcare, medical devices, rail and semiconductor industries.

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers. As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all.

If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we're eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:

What You Will Do:

The Hardware Validation & Integration Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and qualification of complex digital hardware systems. This role spans signal integrity testing and analysis, hardware bring-up, environmental validation, cross-functional debugging, and sustaining engineering support. The engineer will collaborate closely with firmware, FPGA, manufacturing, and system integration teams to drive high-quality hardware releases from prototype through production.

• Perform signal integrity (SI) testing, digital timing analysis, and interface-level validation for high-speed digital subsystems.
• Create detailed test plans, validation procedures, and qualification reports for hardware subsystems.
• Oversee the build, maintenance, and continuous updates of hardware targets used for product development and verification.
• Debug hardware failures, perform root-cause analysis, and collaborate with cross-functional leads to drive closure.
• Support line-down or field-returned issues by reproducing failures, validating fixes, identifying component-level or design-level issues, and qualifying repaired units.
• Perform bay-level and target-level testing to validate interoperability, performance, and reliability.
• Execute temperature cycling, vibration testing, and other environmental stress tests to validate design robustness.
• Analyze results, identify failure modes, and recommend corrective actions to improve long-term reliability.
• Update derating analysis, digital timing analysis, thermal assessments, and hardware design documents.
• Support firmware and FPGA teams with hardware configuration, board setup, and programming workflows. Assist in debugging hardware-dependent firmware issues and validating new firmware drops on hardware targets.
• Drive engineering change requests (ECR/ECO) through internal release systems (My workshop) and coordinate with stakeholders.

Signal Integrity and Hardware Qualification Testing — Performing SI testing and digital timing analysis for IMB2 and IDB2, including simulation reviews and interface-level validation, Hydra pass2 board qualifications, documenting test results and releasing in My workshop

FW/FPGA Hardware Support — Supporting FW/FPGA teams with hardware-related changes/setup as required, PCIe programming via Chip Link, FPGA programming using Quartus with latest released versions on the ICE2 targets and updating PLL configurations as required.

Target Build & Maintenance — Oversee the building, maintenance, and continuous updates of ICE2 hardware targets to support product development and verification activities. This includes running RDT tests and updating the daily tracker, executing HAST tests, logging issues in Jira, and coordinating with cross-functional leads to ensure timely assignment and closure. Additionally, responsible for debugging ICE2 hardware issues and supporting…