Sr Eng/Lead Eng/Staff Eng - Hardware Design - Multiple positions

Job description

General Summary: Qualcomm Cloud System Hardware and Validation Engineering develops cutting-edge rack level AI inference solutions for next generation liquid-cooled data centers. Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3 to 15 years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: - System/card/rack-level development, including architecture, design, validation, and deployment of enterprise-class hardware platforms. - Rack-Level Expertise: Proven experience in rack-level system integration, including chassis, backplane, cabling, airflow, and thermal management across multiple cards/modules. - Familiarity with rack-scale power delivery, including PDUs, VRMs, PMICs, and power budgeting across multiple boards. - Experience with rack-level diagnostics and bring-up, including debug of interconnects, signal integrity across long traces/cables, and system-level validation. - Understanding of rack-level mechanical constraints, EMI shielding, and compliance with data center deployment standards. - Collaboration with ODMs/OEMs on rack-level design and manufacturing, including review of mechanical drawings, thermal simulations, and compliance testing. - Board-Level Design: Deep knowledge of PCIe cards, motherboards, daughtercards, and backplane signal and power delivery. - Expertise in chassis design, airflow optimization, and thermal management. - Solid understanding of system software operation from bootloader to OS and application layers. - Component Qualification: Experience qualifying PMICs, voltage regulators (VRs), clock buffers, flash memory, and connectors for use in complex card and rack-level designs. - Design Validation: Hands-on experience in dense, high-layer count PCB designs (820+ layers). - Skilled in PCIe add-in card/module design, debugging in high-performance systems (x86 and ARM). - Familiarity with JTAG tools for bring-up and debug. - Experience with networking switches and high speed ethernet interfaces - High-Speed Interfaces: Knowledge of high-speed serial I/O (610+ Gbps), PCIe Gen5/6, LPDDR4x/5x, DDR4/5, 200/400/800 GbE. - Experience with long PCB/cable topologies (0.351.5 meter), signal integrity, and compliance with current standards. - Ability to debug at packet/protocol level across link, transport, transaction, and command layers. - Memory Clocking: Experience with LPDDR4x memory technologies, DIMM layout and validation. - Expertise in clock distribution, power distribution, SMBus, PMBus, SPI, PWM/Tach, and BMC integration. - Tools Collaboration: Proficient in schematic capture and PCB layout tools (Cadence Allegro, Mentor Expedition). - Experience with circuit simulation tools (SPICE), signal/power integrity analysis. - Skilled in using lab equipment: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, SMBus, serial debuggers. - Strong collaboration with ODMs on joint designs, schematic/layout reviews, and compliance to Qualcomm design guidelines. - Firmware Software: Good understanding of x86 FW/SW stack and firmware architecture. - Experience with BMC hardware/software integration and management. - Compliance Testing: Familiarity with regulatory, environmental, and compliance testing for rack-level systems. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: - 3 to 15 years hardware engineering/Systems development experience or related work experience. - 3 to 15 years of experience with circuit design (e.g., digital, analog, RF). - 3 to 15 years of experience utilizing schematic capture and circuit simulation software. - 3 to 15 years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, debug tools, etc. Minimum Experience: - 3 to 15 years of experience in HW board design and System design.