Hardware Validation Engineer

Senior PCB Layout Engineer – High-Speed Design

Experience: 5-8+ Years

Location: Fremont/Bay Area, CA/ Austin, TX
Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

• 5-8+ years of experience in PCB Layout and High-Speed Board Design.
• Hands-on experience with Cadence Allegro and/or Mentor Graphics Expedition/Xpedition.
• Strong expertise in high-speed PCB layout, PCIe, DDR, Signal Integrity (SI), and multilayer boards.
• Experience with high-speed routing, differential pairs, length matching, impedance control, skew management, and stack-up design.
• Develop and optimize PCB layouts for complex embedded systems and semiconductor products.
• Collaborate with Hardware, SI/PI, Validation, and Manufacturing teams.
• Experience with PCB fabrication, assembly, DFM/DFA, EMC/EMI, and manufacturing documentation.
• Generate Gerber, ODB++, fabrication, and assembly files.
• Support PCB bring-up, debug, and design reviews.
• Experience with PCIe Gen3/Gen4/Gen5 and DDR3/DDR4/DDR5 preferred.
• Exposure to USB, Ethernet, SerDes, SATA, HyperLynx, Sigrity, or similar SI/PI tools is a plus.

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or related field