Senior Hardware Systems Engineer - Reference Boards & Platforms

Mythic Ai.Com; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Health, Dental, Vision, 401(k)

Uncapped PTO

Job summary

Mythic seeks a hands-on Senior Staff Systems Design Engineer to own and drive the design and implementation of reference boards and hardware platforms. This build role turns evolving silicon capabilities and constraints into manufacturable hardware.

You will work across silicon, integration, and manufacturing, designing boards, collaborating with vendors, and supporting bring-up and debug to deliver customer-ready platforms.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in hardware or board-level design.
• Strong background in high-speed digital design and power delivery.
• Experience designing and bringing up complex PCBs.
• Familiarity with PCB design tools (Altium, Cadence, or similar).
• Understanding of package-to-board interactions and system-level constraints.
• Ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Strong engineering judgment and attention to detail.
• Experience working with external vendors (PCB, OSAT).
• Builder mindset: you create working systems, not wait for perfect requirements.
• Experience with AI/ML hardware or high-performance compute platforms.
• Exposure to multi-die or chiplet-based systems.
• Familiarity with thermal and mechanical considerations in hardware design.
• Experience supporting hardware through bring-up and early production.

Responsibilities

• Own design and development of reference boards and hardware platforms.
• Translate silicon capabilities into practical, high-quality system designs.
• Drive schematic design and guide PCB layout (internally or with external partners).
• Own key hardware subsystems including power delivery, high-speed interfaces, and clocking.
• Ensure signal integrity, power integrity, and overall system robustness.
• Define and incorporate package-level constraints into board design.
• Partner with OSATs and manufacturing vendors to ensure smooth package-to-board integration.
• Support board bring-up and collaborate on debugging system-level issues.
• Drive design for manufacturability (DFM) and readiness for prototype and production builds.
• Work with integration, product, test, and packaging teams to ensure successful system deployment.

Skills

Hardware design

Board-level design

High-speed design

Power delivery

PCB bring-up

PCB tooling Altium

PCB tooling Cadence

Package-to-board interactions

AI/ML hardware experience

Chiplet-based systems

Thermal/mechanical considerations

Vendor collaboration

Tools

Altium

Cadence

Job description

Mythic seeks a hands-on Senior Staff Systems Design Engineer to own and drive the design and implementation of reference boards and hardware platforms. This build role turns evolving silicon capabilities and constraints into manufacturable hardware.

You will work across silicon, integration, and manufacturing, designing boards, collaborating with vendors, and supporting bring-up and debug to deliver customer-ready platforms.