Baseband Hardware/Systems Engineer
$96,000 - $144,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
Qualcomm's Central Baseband Hardware Systems organization develops baseband and embedded system reference designs, focusing on the co-design of silicon, package, and PCB interconnect technologies.
About the role
This role involves developing baseband and embedded system reference designs, focusing on the co-design of silicon, package, and PCB interconnect technologies for Qualcomm application processors and power management ASICs.
What you'll do
- Define system and reference design requirements.
- Develop and document platform architectures for mobile, AR/VR, wearable, laptop, tablet, and compute products.
- Design and implement high-speed digital/baseband hardware, including schematic capture, BOM development, PCB/PWB layout support, and stackup definition.
- Perform signal integrity and power integrity analysis, simulation, and optimization for high-speed interfaces, memory subsystems, and power delivery networks.
- Design and integrate high-speed interfaces including PCIe, USB, Ethernet, SPI, and I2C.
- Apply DFT, DFM, and high-volume manufacturing best practices throughout the design process.
What you'll need
- Board-level hardware design experience involving CPU-based platforms, consumer electronics, mobile devices, AR/VR products, wearables, compute devices, and/or low-power systems.
- Digital/baseband and analog circuit design experience.
- Experience with signal integrity and power integrity tools and methodologies.
- Proficiency with PCB schematic capture and layout tools such as Xpedition and/or Allegro.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
Nice to have
- Mobile handset or battery-powered consumer electronics design experience.
- Smart glasses, AR glasses, VR headset, or wearable hardware design experience.
- Laptop, tablet, or computer hardware design experience.
- Experience with ARM or x86 platforms operating above 1 GHz and utilizing LPDDRx memory interfaces.
- Experience with complex multi-module, high-speed hardware designs.
- Familiarity with low-power design techniques.
Skills: board-level hardware design, schematic capture, signal integrity, power integrity, PCB layout
This role has been open 43 days — well below the 54-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
107
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$212k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (107 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 21 | 107 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 705 | 6164 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 54 d (−11 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $212k |
Skills observed across this category: board-level hardware design, schematic capture, signal integrity, power integrity, PCB layout
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 29 open roles · median 54 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 21 open roles · median 42 d
- NVIDIA · 16 open roles · median 73 d
- Intel Corporation · 7 open roles · median 41 d
- Mobileye · 4 open roles · median 21 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 13 d
How we counted: 107 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.