Staff Hardware Board Design Engineer

Evollabs Tech; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Evolleabs Tech in Dubai, UAE seeks a Staff Hardware Board Design Engineer to own architectural decisions for AI accelerator boards and system-level integration. You will guide high-speed interfaces, power delivery, and test strategies from first Silicon Bring-up to production.

Lead cross-functional teams, coordinate with firmware, silicon validation, and manufacturing, and deliver robust hardware platforms for scalable AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of board-level hardware design experience, with ownership of end-to-end projects.
• Proficient in Cadence Allegro or similar ECAD flows and board architecture practices.

Responsibilities

• Define board-level architecture for AI accelerator boards and modules.
• Capture schematics for high-speed interfaces and power trees.
• Plan and execute lab bring-up, characterization, and debugging.
• Drive PDN design, VRM selection, and telemetry implementation.
• Oversee layout coordination with external partners and internal teams.
• Write board specifications, bring-up plans, and documentation.

Skills

Schematic capture

High-speed I/O

PCIe Gen5/Gen6

DDR5/LPDDR5/GDDR7

Power electronics

Python scripting

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence Allegro System Capture

OrCAD Capture

Altium Designer

Job description

Location: Dubai - UAE

Team: Hardware Engineering – Board Design & Bring-Up

Type: Full-time – On-site

About Us

We are a tech company specializing in the design and development of cutting-edge, customized server hardware solutions optimized for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Our mission is to empower businesses and researchers to accelerate their AI initiatives by providing them with high-performance, scalable, and energy-efficient hardware infrastructure.

As a rapidly growing company at the forefront of AI hardware innovation, we are constantly seeking talented and motivated individuals to join our team. We offer a dynamic and challenging work environment, with opportunities to make a significant impact on the future of AI technology.

Your Mission

As a Staff Hardware Board Design Engineer, you will be the electrical design authority for the boards that carry our AI accelerator silicon, from the first test PCB that powers up a new chip to the production accelerator card or module that ships in a data center rack. You will set board-level architecture, translate silicon and system requirements into schematics, power trees, and high-speed interface budgets, define the constraints that drive layout, and take the resulting hardware through lab bring-up, characterization, and debug. You will own board programs end to end and be the person the silicon, firmware, and validation teams come to when the platform has to work.

Responsibilities

• Accelerator board architecture and schematic design: set board-level architecture and own schematic capture for AI accelerator cards, modules, and system boards, including component selection, clocking and reset topologies, sideband management interfaces, and connector and form-factor decisions.
• Test PCB design for silicon bring-up: design the evaluation, characterization, and socketed test boards used to power up and qualify new chips, providing programmable rails and current sensing, clean clock sources, JTAG and scan access, probe and instrumentation points, thermal fixturing, and package breakout structures that make first silicon observable and debuggable.
• Power delivery network design: design high-current, multi-rail power trees for accelerator-class devices, covering multi-phase VRM selection and compensation, PDN impedance targets, decoupling strategy, power sequencing and telemetry over PMBus, and protection and hot-swap behaviour.
• High-speed interface budgets and layout direction: define stackup, material, impedance, and routing constraints for PCIe Gen5 and Gen6, DDR5, LPDDR5, GDDR6 and GDDR7 or HBM-adjacent interfaces, 100G to 800G Ethernet, and die-to-die and SerDes links, then drive layout execution with our in-house PCB layout and signal and power integrity engineers as well as external layout partners.
• Lab bring-up, characterization, and debug: plan and execute board and silicon bring-up, run electrical characterization and margining, and root-cause failures across the hardware, firmware, and silicon boundary using oscilloscopes, high-bandwidth probes, BERTs, VNAs, protocol and power analyzers, and thermal imaging.
• Manufacturing readiness and vendor execution: drive DFM, DFT, and DFA reviews, prototype and NPI builds, ECO and BOM management, and compliance activities with fabricators, assembly houses, ODMs, and contract manufacturers through to volume production.
• Technical leadership and documentation: write board specifications, schematic review packages, bring-up and test plans, and errata, act as design authority in reviews, align silicon, package, firmware, thermal, mechanical, and validation teams around a single platform definition, and mentor engineers as the board team grows.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of board-level hardware design experience with a strong focus on high-speed digital boards for compute, networking, or accelerator products, including at least one platform owned end to end from concept through volume production and at least one first-silicon bring-up.
• Proven ownership of schematic capture and board architecture in a professional ECAD flow such as Cadence Allegro System Capture, OrCAD Capture, or Altium Designer.
• Hands‑on experience designing and debugging high-speed interfaces such as PCIe Gen4 or newer, DDR4 or DDR5, LPDDR, GDDR, or multi‑gigabit SerDes and Ethernet links, including how loss, crosstalk, and return‑path decisions shape the schematic and stackup.
• Strong power electronics competence at board level: multi‑phase VRM design, high‑current PDN design, decoupling and target impedance analysis, power sequencing, and telemetry.
• Demonstrated silicon or board bring‑up experience: taking untested hardware from first power‑on to functional and characterized, and driving issues to root cause.
• Fluency with lab instrumentation and measurement practice, including oscilloscopes and probing technique, power and network analyzers, and protocol or bus analyzers.
• Working knowledge of low‑speed management and control subsystems: I2C, SMBus, SPI, UART, JTAG, EEPROM and FRU handling, BMC or MCU based board management, and reset and sequencing logic.
• Practical command of DFM, DFT, and DFA, PCB fabrication and assembly processes, and design release packages, with experience working directly with fab and assembly vendors.
• Proficiency with Python or equivalent scripting for lab automation, data capture, and measurement post‑processing.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: acting as design authority in schematic and layout reviews, steering external layout houses, ODMs, and component vendors, and mentoring less experienced engineers.
• Excellent cross‑functional communication and documentation skills, with the ability to lead design reviews and to drive alignment with silicon, firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing partners.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves)

• Experience with AI accelerator or GPU form factors such as OAM and UBB, SXM, PCIe CEM cards, or OCP and DC-MHS compliant platforms, including liquid‑cooled designs.
• Signal and power integrity simulation experience with tools such as Cadence Sigrity, Ansys HFSS or SIwave, Keysight ADS, or HyperLynx, and the ability to interpret and act on extraction results.
• Silicon and package co‑design exposure: BGA escape planning, substrate and 2.5D or HBM package constraints, and joint debug with package and ASIC teams.
• Post‑silicon characterization experience including voltage and frequency margining and correlating lab measurements with ATE or emulation results.
• Familiarity with FPGA prototyping platforms, socketed test boards, and interposer or riser based debug hardware.
• Experience with thermal and mechanical co‑design for high‑power boards, including cold plates, heatsink loading, and board stiffening.

Why Join Us

• Own the physical platform that our AI silicon runs on, where your board decisions directly determine whether the chip meets its performance, power, and reliability targets.
• Work shoulder to shoulder with silicon, package, firmware, and validation engineers in a fast‑moving team that values hands‑on depth and measurement over guesswork.
• Build hardware end to end, from the first bring‑up fixture on a lab bench to a production accelerator platform, with real authority over architecture, vendor, and technology choices, and the scope to shape the board team as it grows.
• Competitive compensation, growth opportunities, and the chance to help define the platform that powers advanced AI workloads.

Ready to Accelerate the Future of AI?

If you're passionate about turning new silicon into working, measurable, manufacturable hardware — we'd love to hear from you.