Senior Hardware Design Engineer - High‑Speed AI Hardware

Penguin Computing, Inc.; Newark (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401k saving plan

Paid time off

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Plan

Job summary

Penguin Solutions in Newark, CA is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to design, bring-up, validate, and debug advanced hardware platforms with high-speed interfaces, memory subsystems, and embedded controllers. You will work across architecture, schematic capture, and production release with cross-functional teams.

The role requires strong hands-on experience in high-speed digital hardware design, PCB development, signal integrity, and system-level debugging, and onsite collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (EE), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), or a related field.
• 5–8 years of professional experience in hardware design and development of high-speed electronic products.
• Strong understanding of DDR3, DDR4, and DDR5 DRAM architectures and interfaces.
• Experience with NAND Flash and NOR Flash memory technologies.
• Knowledge of PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet and higher-speed Ethernet interfaces.
• Familiarity with SMBus/I2C/I3C/PMBus.
• Experience with SoC-based and embedded system designs.
• Knowledge of DC-DC power converter design and power distribution architectures.
• PCB design and layout practices for high-speed signals and power integrity.
• Experience with Cadence Allegro and OrCAD.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop complex hardware systems involving high-speed digital interfaces, memory subsystems, and embedded processors.
• Create architecture specifications, schematics, BOMs, and design documentation.
• Develop hardware solutions using SoCs, FPGAs, microcontrollers, and embedded system components.
• Design and validate DDR memory interfaces and non-volatile memory subsystems.
• Perform schematic review, design verification, and hardware debugging.
• Collaborate with PCB layout engineers to ensure signal integrity, power integrity, impedance control, and manufacturability requirements are met.
• Conduct board bring-up, debugging, and validation activities on prototype hardware.
• Perform electrical characterization using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and other laboratory instruments.
• Analyze and resolve hardware issues throughout development and qualification phases.
• Work closely with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and test engineering teams to ensure successful product delivery.
• Support product sustaining activities and root-cause investigations when necessary.

Skills

High-speed design

PCB development

Signal integrity

DDR3/DDR4/DDR5 interfaces

NAND/NOR Flash memory

PCI Express ( PCIe )

Gigabit Ethernet

SMBus / I2C / PMBus

SoC-based embedded systems

Laboratory testing

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (EE/EECS) or related field

Tools

Cadence Allegro

OrCAD

Job description

Penguin Solutions in Newark, CA is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to design, bring-up, validate, and debug advanced hardware platforms with high-speed interfaces, memory subsystems, and embedded controllers. You will work across architecture, schematic capture, and production release with cross-functional teams.

The role requires strong hands-on experience in high-speed digital hardware design, PCB development, signal integrity, and system-level debugging, and onsite collaboration