Senior Hardware Engineer: End-to-End High-Speed PCB Systems

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

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.