Senior PCB Hardware Engineer: Bring-Up & Validation

GCS Recruitment; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment in Sunnyvale seeks a Senior PCB Hardware Development Engineer to drive board bring-up, verification, and manufacturing support for satellite payload hardware. This hands-on role emphasizes debugging and validating complex designs from power-on through root-cause analysis.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of board-level hardware experience, strong schematic capture, high-speed interfaces, and lab skills with oscilloscopes and analyzers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of board-level hardware design experience.
• Strong schematic capture for dense multi-layer PCB designs.
• Solid understanding of power delivery, distribution and sequencing.
• Hands-on lab experience with bring-up, debug and validation.
• Proficiency with oscilloscopes and high-speed measurement tools.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces (SERDES, PCIe, Ethernet, DDR).
• BSEE, MSEE or equivalent engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead bring-up of fabricated boards, power-on, and first-time debug.
• Plan and execute design verification and validation campaigns.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to drive corrective actions.
• Contribute to schematic capture and PCB layout for next-gen hardware.
• Support RF/antenna teams with validated hardware and measurements.
• Troubleshoot hardware issues using systematic debugging methods.

Skills

PCB design

Schematic capture

Power delivery

Lab debugging

Oscilloscopes

High-speed test equipment

SerDes technologies

Signal integrity

Education

BSEE or MSEE

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

High-speed test equipment

Job description

GCS Recruitment in Sunnyvale seeks a Senior PCB Hardware Development Engineer to drive board bring-up, verification, and manufacturing support for satellite payload hardware. This hands-on role emphasizes debugging and validating complex designs from power-on through root-cause analysis.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of board-level hardware experience, strong schematic capture, high-speed interfaces, and lab skills with oscilloscopes and analyzers.