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Principal Hardware Engineer- Power System design

Meridianservices LLC.Santa Clara, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 16, 2026

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Santa Clara, CA, United States
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Job Description

Role:

  • Design, develop, and troubleshoot high speed digital systems and power subsystems for use in extreme environments.
  • Architect power distribution networks (PDN) for multi-rail, high-current telecom platforms such as base station hardware
  • Design and specify DC-DC converters, LDOs, PoL regulators, and sequencing/supervisory circuits
  • Define power budgets, thermal dissipation estimates, and efficiency targets
  • Support product development through hands-on board level prototyping, testing and troubleshooting.
  • Participate in board and system-level bring-up, debug and qualification, with a heavy emphasis on product characterization and design verification.
  • Perform PDN analysis including impedance profiling, decoupling strategy, and transient response modeling

Requirements:

  • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering
  • Expertise in high-speed digital design & verification
  • Expertise in the design, test and analysis of Power Distribution Networks
  • Experience with high speed serial interfaces (10Gb/s and above)
  • Experience with high speed memory design (e.g. DDR3, DDR4, DDR5)
  • At least 7 years of experience in digital system design including a solid understanding of:
    • Clock distribution
    • Power generation and distribution
    • Signal termination techniques
    • EMI control and reduction
    • Thermal considerations
  • Mastery of board layout techniques, including stackup design, material selection, impedance control, EMI considerations, etc.

 

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