Hardware Development Engineer

Selby Jennings; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) program with company match

Paid time off

Daily meals and stocked office

Access to hardware labs

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking a senior hardware engineer to own the design, validation, and deployment of custom hardware systems from concept to production. You will lead high-speed digital design, board-level architecture, and signal integrity analyses in a collaborative environment with FPGA, software, and systems engineers.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of production hardware experience and a track record of end-to-end ownership, driving architecture decisions and technology direction in

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of industry experience developing production hardware
• Strong experience with high-speed digital design
• Expertise in schematic capture and board-level architecture
• Strong understanding of signal integrity and power integrity fundamentals
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, validate, and deliver custom hardware systems and PCBAs
• Own products from concept, schematic capture, and component selection through manufacturing and deployment
• Develop high-speed digital systems utilizing PCIe, DDR4/DDR5, Ethernet, accelerators, and server-class hardware
• Perform signal integrity and power integrity analysis to ensure robust, scalable designs
• Create validation strategies and execute hardware bring-up, debugging, and characterization
• Analyze eye diagrams, BERT results, and lab measurements to correlate real-world performance with simulation data
• Write Python-based tools and scripts to support bring-up, validation, and manufacturing activities
• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to identify and solve complex system-level challenges
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive improvements in system performance, scalability, manufacturability, and reliability
• Work directly with manufacturing partners and suppliers to bring products into production

Skills

High-speed digital design

Schematic capture

Board-level architecture

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Debugging

Python scripting

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

TDRs

BERTs

VHDL

Verilog

C/C++

Job description

Join a small team of engineers building custom hardware systems where performance, reliability, and precision matter at every level of the stack.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy owning complex hardware from architecture through production and want to work in an environment where impactful technical decisions are made by engineers, not layers of management. You'll partner closely with hardware, FPGA, software, infrastructure, and systems engineers to design and deploy high-performance computing platforms used in demanding production environments.

Unlike highly specialized roles at large organizations, you'll have broad ownership across the entire development lifecycle and the opportunity to influence both architectural decisions and long-term technology direction.

What You'll Do

• Architect, design, validate, and deliver custom hardware systems and PCBAs
• Own products from concept, schematic capture, and component selection through manufacturing and deployment
• Develop high-speed digital systems utilizing technologies such as PCIe, DDR4/DDR5, Ethernet, accelerators, and server-class hardware
• Perform signal integrity and power integrity analysis to ensure robust, scalable designs
• Create validation strategies and execute hardware bring-up, debugging, and characterization
• Analyze eye diagrams, BERT results, and lab measurements to correlate real-world performance with simulation data
• Write Python-based tools and scripts to support bring-up, validation, and manufacturing activities
• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to identify and solve complex system-level challenges
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive improvements in system performance, scalability, manufacturability, and reliability
• Work directly with manufacturing partners and suppliers to bring products into production

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of industry experience developing production hardware
• Strong experience with high-speed digital design
• Expertise in schematic capture and board-level architecture
• Strong understanding of signal integrity and power integrity fundamentals
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with oscilloscopes, TDRs, BERTs, and high-speed validation tools
• Experience in datacenter, networking, HPC, AI/ML, or consumer electronics environmentsExperience with VHDL, Verilog, C, or C++
• Personal hardware projects or demonstrated passion for engineering outside of work
• Why Engineers Are Interested
• End-to-end ownership of real hardware products
• Small, highly technical engineering team
• Significant influence over architecture and design decisions
• Fast-moving, low-bureaucracy environment
• Exposure to challenging performance and scale problems
• Opportunity to work alongside exceptional engineers across multiple disciplines
• Compensation designed to reward technical contribution and long-term impact

This position offers a highly competitive compensation package designed to reward technical impact, ownership, and long-term contribution.

• Significant annual discretionary bonus tied to individual and firm performance
• Meaningful long-term upside through a performance-driven compensation structure
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company contributions
• Generous paid time off and holidays
• Daily meals and fully stocked office amenities
• Access to state-of-the-art hardware labs and engineering resources