Seeking an experienced Hardware Board Design Engineer with 8+ years of expertise in designing and delivering complex hardware platforms. This role is responsible for driving end‑to‑end board design—from capturing platform-level requirements to supporting architects in defining system design strategies, schematic development, component selection, and platform bring‑up. The candidate should possess in depth technical knowledge in high‑speed digital, analog, and mixed-signal designs. Exposure to silicon validation and characterization platforms will be good to have.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the end‑to‑end design and development of hardware platforms, translating based on system architecture and specifications.
Expertise in complex processor-, FPGA-, and ASIC‑based systems, ensuring alignment with platform performance, power, thermal, and cost objectives.
Develop and review circuit designs, simulations, and trade‑off analyses to ensure robust and scalable hardware solutions.
Review PCB design rules, including component placement, high‑speed routing constraints, stack‑up definitions, and signal/power integrity considerations. Review design simulations (SI/PI/Thermal) results.
Responsible to drive the schematic capture, PCB layout, and design package creation from feasibility through tape‑out.
Evaluate and optimize BOM cost, part availability, and risk mitigation strategies for the platform.
Lead board bring-up, power-on, and platform debug activities in collaboration with architects, validation engineers, and system integration teams.
Resolve complex system-level issues across electrical, firmware, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing domains.
Work closely with cross-functional teams including architecture, verification, validation, firmware, manufacturing, and customer engineering.
Integrate feedback to continuously refine design methodologies and enhance platform robustness.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
8+ years of experience in hardware board design life-cycle.
Strong expertise in processor, FPGA, and SoC-based system design.
Proficiency in circuit design, analysis, and simulation.
Hands-on experience with key EDA tools such as Concept HDL, OrCAD, Allegro or equivalent.
Expertise in high‑speed digital, analog, and mixed-signal design principles.
Experience in embedded, telecom, or RF-based hardware platforms is a plus.
Exposure to thermal and mechanical design review and integration is an added advantage.
(Advantageous) Experience in silicon validation, electrical characterization, test card design, or platform enablement for early silicon bring-up.
Top Skills
What We Do
Altera: Accelerating Innovators Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.
