Hardware Design Engineer II

Overview

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

Job Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in.

GENERAL SUMMARY

As a Hardware Board Design Engineer, you will work with your fellow members of the platform team, cross-functional teams, and vendors to deliver high quality board designs with a timely, successful release to production.

Roles and Responsibilities

+ Work/interact within a project team (hardware, software, asic, etc) to design boards and write system documentation

+ Work with vendors and the project team to accomplish component selection

+ Create and/or validate footprints and schematic symbols

+ Schematic capture using ORCAD and board layout using Allegro tools

+ Develop/document board/system hardware test plan working with team members

+ Contribute to board/system bring-up and system integration efforts

+ Develop test scripts as required in the project to help with testing.

+ Work with manufacturing through successful production/customer-shipment

Preferred Qualifications

+ BS with 5+ years experience or equivalent

+ Experience with high-speed board/system design, logic design, schematic capture, component selection, board layout, and testing

+ Strong knowledge related to signal integrity, power design, thermal management

+ Experience with design of dense, high layer count PCBs

+ Expertise with schematic capture & layout tools

+ Experience importing new parts in EDA databases (footprints and symbols)

+ Experience in using lab/debug tools (e.g. logic analyzer, PCIe &/or I2C Analyzer, High-speed oscilloscopes, Traffic Generators, etc)

+ Experience with BOM management and Arena PLM

+ Technical knowledge and design/working experience with PCIe, DDR3/4 DRAM, Ethernet, serdes, I2C/SPI/MDIO

+ Experience with CPLD/FPGA design and deployment

+ Lab bring-up, testing, and debugging (including board-related bring-up with software, familiarity with signal-integrity aspects, etc)

+ Working knowledge/experience with scripting (Python, PERL, TCL, etc)

+ EMI, materials, and safety compliance requirements/testing

Physical Requirements

+ Frequently transports between offices, buildings, and campuses up to ½ mile.

+ Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 5 lbs.

+ Performs required tasks at various heights (e.g., standing or sitting).

+ Monitors and utilizes computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day.

+ Continuous communication which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors – Computer Science, Bachelors – Engineering, Bachelors – Information Systems

Work Experiences:

5+ years of Systems engineering or related work experience.

Certifications:

Skills:

Preferred Qualifications

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