Senior Hardware & PCB Design Engineer – Reference Platforms

Qualcomm; Cork; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary and bonus program

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Employee stock purchase scheme

Matching pension scheme

Education assistance

Relocation and immigration support

Life, medical, income and travel保险

Well-being programs

Bicycle purchase scheme

Job summary

QT Technologies Ireland Limited designs and develops motherboards/add-in cards for Qualcomm reference designs and SOC platforms from Cork. The engineer will own schematics, PCB layouts and testing, coordinating with Integrated Platform Solutions, PCB, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to move concepts to production.

The role requires strong hardware fundamentals, firmware familiarity, and excellent teamwork. A degree in Engineering and 5+ years of hardware experience are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or closely related field.
• 5+ years of Hardware Engineering experience or related discipline.
• Strong understanding of microcontroller architectures and digital interfaces (I2C/I3C, SPI, UART).
• Experience in PCB design, prototyping and debugging (logic analyzer, oscilloscope).
• Schematic capture and PCB layout tooling experience is a plus (Mentor Graphics Xpedition).
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Own schematics design, lead PCB layouts, design reviews, component selections, and coordinate manufacturing processes.
• Develop functional specifications for systems, cards, and sub-systems architectures.
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to support customer-specific hardware requirements.
• Assist cross-functional teams in bring-up and debugging of hardware systems and SOC configurations.
• Contribute to next-generation devices evaluating new sensor modalities and data analysis techniques.

Skills

Embedded C / C++ firmware development

Microcontroller architecture

I2C / I3C / SPI / UART

PCB design debugging

Schematic capture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Science/Engineering

PhD in Science/Engineering

Tools

Mentor Graphics Xpedition

Job description

QT Technologies Ireland Limited designs and develops motherboards/add-in cards for Qualcomm reference designs and SOC platforms from Cork. The engineer will own schematics, PCB layouts and testing, coordinating with Integrated Platform Solutions, PCB, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to move concepts to production.

The role requires strong hardware fundamentals, firmware familiarity, and excellent teamwork. A degree in Engineering and 5+ years of hardware experience are expected.