Senior Hardware Engineer

Autonomai Recruitment; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Autonomai Recruitment is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to design and deliver custom, performance-critical electronic systems in Austin, Texas on-site. You will own hardware from architecture through production, tackling latency, density, and signal integrity challenges.

You’ll collaborate with FPGA, firmware, software, and mechanical teams, perform SI/PI simulations, and lead bring-up, validation, and manufacturing support for high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, and USB.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Typically 8+ years of professional hardware engineering experience.
• Advanced schematic capture and PCB layout experience using Cadence, Altium, Mentor Graphics, or an equivalent ECAD platform.

Responsibilities

• Designing high-speed, high-density electronic systems and custom PCBs.
• Owning hardware designs from initial concept through production release.
• Leading schematic capture, component selection, board architecture, and PCB layout.
• Performing signal integrity, power integrity, and electromagnetic simulations.
• Developing initial board bring-up and test code using Python, C, or HDL.
• Creating engineering requirements, validation strategies, and detailed test plans.
• Bringing up new hardware in the lab and debugging complex system-level issues.
• Validating high-speed interfaces using TDRs, BERTs, and real-time or sampling oscilloscopes.
• Interpreting eye diagrams and correlating physical measurements with simulation results.
• Researching new approaches to improve latency, throughput, scale, density, and thermal performance.
• Collaborating with FPGA, firmware, software, mechanical, and infrastructure engineers.
• Managing relationships with fabrication partners, component suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
• Supporting manufacturing, production testing, and post-release troubleshooting.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Cadence

Altium

Mentor Graphics

Job description

Senior Hardware Engineer | High-Speed Electronic Systems

Austin, Texas | On-site

A highly successful technology-driven organisation is hiring a Senior Hardware Engineer to design and deliver custom, performance-critical electronic systems.

This is an end-to-end hardware ownership position within a multidisciplinary research and development team. You will take complex board-level systems from early architecture and schematic design through simulation, layout, bring-up, validation, manufacturing, and production deployment.

The team develops highly specialised hardware rather than adapting standard commercial products. Its systems operate at the limits of latency, density, signal integrity, thermal performance, and reliability, creating unusual engineering problems that require creativity and strong first-principles thinking.

This role needs more than a traditional PCB designer. We are looking for a senior engineer who understands how hardware, firmware, FPGA logic, and software interact as a complete system.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing high-speed, high-density electronic systems and custom PCBs
• Owning hardware designs from initial concept through production release
• Leading schematic capture, component selection, board architecture, and PCB layout
• Performing signal integrity, power integrity, and electromagnetic simulations
• Developing initial board bring-up and test code using Python, C, or HDL
• Creating engineering requirements, validation strategies, and detailed test plans
• Bringing up new hardware in the lab and debugging complex system-level issues
• Validating high-speed interfaces using TDRs, BERTs, and real-time or sampling oscilloscopes
• Interpreting eye diagrams and correlating physical measurements with simulation results
• Researching new approaches to improve latency, throughput, scale, density, and thermal performance
• Collaborating with FPGA, firmware, software, mechanical, and infrastructure engineers
• Managing relationships with fabrication partners, component suppliers, and contract manufacturers
• Supporting manufacturing, production testing, and post-release troubleshooting

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline
• Typically 8+ years of professional hardware engineering experience
• Advanced schematic capture and PCB layout experience using Cadence, Altium, Mentor Graphics, or an equivalent ECAD platform
• Deep knowledge of signal integrity and power integrity principles
• End-to-end product development experience, from architecture through production
• Expertise with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe Gen3-6, 10/25G Ethernet, USB 3, or USB 4
• Experience with lower-speed control and communication interfaces including I2C, SPI, JTAG, and USB
• Strong laboratory validation and debugging skills
• Working knowledge of Python
• The ability to consider hardware challenges at both board and complete-system level
• Strong technical judgement and a willingness to explore unconventional approaches

Highly relevant additional experience includes:

• Ethernet and IEEE 802.3
• Datacentre, networking, semiconductor, or consumer electronics hardware
• C or C++ development
• VHDL, Verilog, or other RTL experience
• FPGA or firmware integration
• Post-silicon bring-up and debugging
• High-volume or complex electronics manufacturing

You will join a small, highly capable engineering group where senior engineers have significant autonomy, access to exceptional technical resources, and a direct influence on the performance of the final system.

Previous financial markets experience is not required. Engineers from semiconductor, networking, telecommunications, consumer electronics, aerospace, defence, datacentre hardware, and other high-performance environments are strongly encouraged to apply.

The position offers technically challenging work, ownership of unique hardware designs, close collaboration with excellent multidisciplinary engineers, and highly competitive compensation.

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