Electrical Design Engineer

Role: Electrical Design Engineer

Location: Dublin, CA (Onsite)

Job Type: Fulltime

Job Description & Skill Requirements:

· Design & Development: Mixed-signal design, analog and digital

· High-Speed Board Design: Routing and layout for high-speed memory and interfaces like DDR3/DDR4, PCIe, and QSPI with strict impedance control.

· Power Tree Architecture: Designing complex DC-DC power management networks utilizing buck and boost regulators, low-dropout (LDO) regulators, and sequencing.

· Processor & FPGA Ecosystems: Architecting systems around advanced microprocessors, microcontrollers (ARM Cortex-M, RISC-V), and FPGAs.Signal Integrity & EMI/EMC: Mitigating noise, crosstalk, and electromagnetic interference to ensure regulatory compliance (FCC, CE, automotive/aerospace standards).

· Protocols & Lab Verification - Bus Interfaces: Deep mastery of low-to-high-speed communication protocols including I2C, SPI, UART, RS485, CAN, USB, and Ethernet.

· Advanced Lab Instrumentation: Expert usage of digital storage oscilloscopes (DSO), logic analyzers, vector network analyzers (VNA), and spectrum analyzers.Root-Cause Analysis:

· Advanced troubleshooting down to the component level, performing de-rating analysis, and thermal management.

· Leadership & Project Lifecycle Team & Technical Leadership: Mentoring junior/mid-level engineers, driving design reviews, and managing cross-functional dependencies with firmware, mechanical, and software teams.

· Project Management: Creating architectural trade-off analyses, component selection matrices, project scheduling, and budgeting.

· Schematic & PCB Tools: Proficiency with enterprise EDA tools such as Xpedition

· Skills: Hardware Design + Mixed Signal + High-Speed PCB + DDR/PCIe + Power Architecture + FPGA + SI/EMI + Xpedition + Lab Debugging

Qualification:

· B.E / M.S / MTech

Priority 1 – Must Have:

· 10+ years of Electrical / Hardware Design

· Mixed-signal Analog + Digital

· High-Speed PCB Design – DDR3/DDR4, PCIe, QSPI

· Power Tree / DC-DC / LDO / Sequencing

· FPGA / ARM / RISC-V

· Signal Integrity + EMI/EMC

· I2C, SPI, UART, RS485, CAN, USB, Ethernet

· Hands-on Oscilloscope / Logic Analyzer / VNA / Spectrum Analyzer

· Schematic + PCB Design

· Xpedition

· Technical leadership & design reviews

Priority 2 – Preferred:

· Aerospace / Automotive / Medical / Semiconductor background

· Board bring-up & hardware validation

· Thermal management & component derating

· FCC / CE / Automotive / Aerospace compliance

· Cross-functional leadership

Nice to Have:

· DDR5 / PCIe Gen4+

· Power Integrity

· FPGA board bring-up

· Altium / Cadence Allegro

· Master's degree