Senior Principal Hardware Design Engineer, Board & System

brightvisiontechnologies; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 266,400; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to lead board and system hardware design for next‑generation Ethernet switch, networking, and AI infrastructure platforms. In a customer‑facing technical leadership role, you will partner with customers and internal teams to guide architecture through production, delivering high‑performance, manufacturable solutions.

Responsibilities include reviewing board architecture, schematics, layouts; developing reference

Qualifications

• 15+ years in hardware design and validation of high-speed networking or compute systems.
• 7+ years board and system design experience with 25G NRZ through 112G/224G PAM4.
• Hands-on experience with board architecture, schematics, PCB layout guidance, bring-up, and validation.
• Expertise in PCB stack-up design, high-speed materials, PDN, SI/PI, thermal design, and mechanical integration.
• Experience with Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, high-speed SerDes, and hardware debugging.
• Strong understanding of DFM, DFT, and product lifecycle management.
• Customer-facing experience and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Review board architecture, schematics, PCB stack-ups, layouts, and system designs.
• Develop and support hardware reference designs.
• Provide guidance on PCB design, power delivery, thermal management, mechanical integration, and high-speed system design.
• Support board bring-up, debugging, root cause analysis, and production readiness.
• Collaborate with silicon, hardware, software, packaging, SI/PI, and operations teams.
• Drive design for reliability, manufacturability, and testability (DFM/DFT).
• Deliver technical training and mentor engineers.
• Support customer engagements and technical reviews.

Skills

Hardware design

Board design

SerDes experience

PCB layout guidance

High-speed system design

DFM/DFT

Customer-facing communication

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Cadence Allegro/Sigrity

Mentor Xpedition/HyperLynx

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to lead board and system hardware design for next‑generation Ethernet switch, networking, and AI infrastructure platforms. In a customer‑facing technical leadership role, you will partner with customers and internal teams to guide architecture through production, delivering high‑performance, manufacturable solutions.

Responsibilities include reviewing board architecture, schematics, layouts; developing reference