Senior Chipset Platform & PCB Architect

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in California seeks a Principal Chipset Project Engineer – Hardware PCB/Platform Systems for Personal Compute to lead PCB and platform strategy across the compute portfolio.

You will define architecture, drive cost-optimized decisions, and work with product management, packaging, PCB design, SI/PI, and suppliers to meet targets for cost, area, power and performance. This leadership role shapes platform roadmaps and requires strong communication with executives and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of systems engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree with 7+ years of systems engineering or related work experience.
• PhD with 6+ years of systems engineering or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead early PCB architectural trade-off decisions with cost, power, performance implications.
• Set and own targets for PCB cost, area and BOM while maintaining best-in-class power and system performance.
• Drive PCB competitiveness across platforms, including layer count and stack-up minimization, board area and routing efficiency, customer design simplicity, and platform reuse across SKUs and generations.
• Provide cross-functional leadership and establish partnership across chipset systems & architecture, product management, packaging and platform hardware, SI/PI, validation, test, software, and customer engineering.
• Engage with vendors, OEMs, and ODMs to align on early platform and PCB architecture and enable manufacturable, cost-effective designs.
• Establish best practices and execution playbooks for cost-driven platform and PCB architecture to enable repeatable, scalable execution.
• Influence future chipset and platform roadmaps using execution experience and competitive analysis of industry platforms.

Skills

PCB architecture

Cost optimization

Platform hardware

Vendor engagement

Cross-functional leadership

Power integrity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in California seeks a Principal Chipset Project Engineer – Hardware PCB/Platform Systems for Personal Compute to lead PCB and platform strategy across the compute portfolio.

You will define architecture, drive cost-optimized decisions, and work with product management, packaging, PCB design, SI/PI, and suppliers to meet targets for cost, area, power and performance. This leadership role shapes platform roadmaps and requires strong communication with executives and