PMIC Reference PCB Design Engineer - Power Integrity

Anysilicon; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm is seeking a PMIC Reference HW Design Engineer in San Diego to lead the design and optimization of PMIC PCB for chipset-based phone designs. You will create design guidelines, schematics, layouts, and thermal solutions for test platforms and customer reference designs.

You will collaborate with PMIC IC designers and Test HW teams to optimize performance and cost, develop PCB guidelines, perform board-level simulations, and publish reference BOMs based on characterization results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with 5 years of relevant experience OR higher degrees with fewer years.
• Proficiency with IC design and PCB design tools; knowledge of SPICE, MATLAB, Verilog/VHDL, C or Python.
• Experience with lab test equipment (oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, logic analyzer).
• Understanding of Power Management PCB design and power integrity concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design customer reference boards and evaluation kits with PMIC designers and Test HW platform teams.
• Develop and publish PMIC PCB design guidelines, schematics, BOMs, and layouts with CAD engineers.
• Conduct board-level simulations to review and approve hardware designs.
• Characterize and publish performance and cost-optimized reference BOMs.

Skills

Lab equipment proficiency

Power management PCB design

High-layer-count boards

Power/Signal integrity tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

IC design tools

PCB design tools

SPICE

MATLAB

Verilog/VHDL

Python

Job description

Qualcomm is seeking a PMIC Reference HW Design Engineer in San Diego to lead the design and optimization of PMIC PCB for chipset-based phone designs. You will create design guidelines, schematics, layouts, and thermal solutions for test platforms and customer reference designs.

You will collaborate with PMIC IC designers and Test HW teams to optimize performance and cost, develop PCB guidelines, perform board-level simulations, and publish reference BOMs based on characterization results.