Lead Board Hardware Engineer: High-Speed PCB & Bring-Up

Broadcom, Inc.; Duluth (GA); On-site; USD 91,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision plans

401(K) participation including company

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave and vacation time

Job summary

Broadcom, Inc. is seeking a Board Hardware Engineer to lead the board design efforts, partner with the board architect, and collaborate with product managers, mechanical engineers, and firmware teams to deliver robust PCB solutions.

The role emphasizes creating schematics and functional specifications, performing board bring-up, and ensuring designs meet performance parameters. Strong English communication and cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of related experience with PCB design and development.
• Experience performing high speed PCB designs.
• Experience designing and laying out DC/DC regulator circuits.
• Experience performing board bring-up, using oscilloscopes and multi-meters; soldering tools.
• Experience with Cadence-Allegro System Capture and PCB Editor.
• Familiarity with DDR4, PCIe, UART, I2C, SPI and USB.

Responsibilities

• Interpret product requirement information into electronic schematic information.
• Work with component engineering in selecting and approving new components.
• Write functional specifications and unit test plans.
• Learn company document control system.
• Manipulate Bill of Materials.
• Coordinate with physical design on component location and routing constraints.
• Perform pre/post simulation of board design.
• Keep management informed of progress and roadblocks.
• Support new and past designs through engineering change orders and debugging.

Skills

PCB design

High speed PCB design

Board bring-up

Oscilloscopes

Soldering tools

Cadence-Allegro System Capture

PCB Editor

LTSPICE/PSPICE

DDR4, PCIe, UART, I2C, SPI, USB

English communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Cadence Sigrity PowerDC

OptimizePI

Python

C

TCL

VHDL/Verilog

Github

Job description

Broadcom, Inc. is seeking a Board Hardware Engineer to lead the board design efforts, partner with the board architect, and collaborate with product managers, mechanical engineers, and firmware teams to deliver robust PCB solutions.

The role emphasizes creating schematics and functional specifications, performing board bring-up, and ensuring designs meet performance parameters. Strong English communication and cross-functional collaboration are essential.