PCB Hardware Engineer
We are seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer in Austin to join a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary engineering team building custom, high‑performance hardware systems for trading. This is a hands‑on role focused on end‑to‑end hardware design, from concept through production, with a strong emphasis on custom PCBs, high‑speed interfaces, and system‑level performance optimization. You'll join a growing team and will immediately begin owning complex designs.
Responsibilities
- Design, realize, test, bring up, and manufacture custom hardware, with a heavy emphasis on custom PCB development.
- Own hardware designs from concept through production, including requirements, schematics, layout, testing, and manufacturability.
- Perform schematic capture, PCB layout, and simulation using tools such as SPICE, Ansys SiWave, and HFSS
- Write initial bring‑up code for new hardware (C, Python, VHDL/RTL).
- Validate and debug high‑speed interfaces, interpreting Eye Diagram and BERT results and correlating lab data with simulations.
- Create test plans, documentation, engineering specs, and design‑for‑manufacturability considerations.
- Work directly with traders, researchers, FPGA engineers, firmware engineers, mechanical engineers, and infrastructure teams.
- Research and implement improvements across latency, thermal performance, scale, and system‑level architecture.
- Select new components, evaluate vendors, and manage relationships with 3rd‑party manufacturers.
- BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering; MS/PhD preferred.
- 5+ years of industry experience, ideally with someone who can independently own complex hardware designs.
- Advanced ECAD skills using Altium, Mentor Graphics, Cadence, or equivalent.
- Strong proficiency in signal and power integrity (SIPI) best practices.
- End‑to‑end product design experience from concept through release.
- Expertise with high‑speed interfaces and protocols such as PCIe Gen3‑6, USB3/4, 10/25G Ethernet, etc.
- Experience with low‑speed communication protocols: I²C, SPI, JTAG, USB, etc.
- Experience validating high‑speed interfaces using TDRs and advanced oscilloscopes.
- Ability to read and write Python (other software/RTL skills are a plus).
- Hands‑on experience working directly with physical hardware.
- Familiarity with Ethernet (IEEE 802.3).
- Data‑center or consumer electronics experience.
- Software engineering experience (C/C++).
- RTL/HDL experience (VHDL/Verilog).
- Post‑silicon bring‑up experience.
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