Electrical Engineer, Hardware Systems - Mountain View, CA, United States
$230,000 - $280,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 June 2026 by the employer.
Design and bring up electrical hardware for AI accelerator silicon.
About the role
Design and bring up the electrical hardware that turns AI accelerator silicon into working systems, encompassing boards, power delivery, and system-level electrical design from schematic through lab bring-up and validation.
What you'll do
- Own schematic design and drive PCB layout for accelerator boards and system hardware, including high-speed digital, power delivery, and clocking.
- Design and validate power-delivery networks (PDN) and rails for high-current accelerator silicon.
- Bring up new boards in the lab: debug, characterize, and validate against spec using scopes, logic/protocol analyzers, and power/thermal instrumentation.
- Drive component selection, DFM/DFT for boards, and work with contract manufacturers and vendors.
- Partner across silicon, packaging, SI/PI, thermal, and firmware/bring-up teams to close electrical issues end to end.
What you'll need
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering plus 5+ years in board/system-level electrical design for complex high-speed digital systems.
- Schematic capture and PCB design (Altium, Cadence Allegro, or equivalent), including high-speed interfaces (DDR/LPDDR, PCIe, SerDes) and power-delivery design.
- Hands-on lab bring-up and debug: oscilloscopes, logic and protocol analyzers, power and thermal characterization.
- Solid grounding in signal integrity, power integrity, and EMC at the board level.
Nice to have
- High-current PDN for accelerators/GPUs; server/board design at hyperscale; FPGA-based systems; firmware / low-level bring-up; thermal co-design; ANSYS HFSS/SIwave or equivalent EM tools.
Skills: electrical hardware, accelerator silicon, schematic design, PCB layout, power delivery, lab bring-up
This role has been open 34 days — well below the 55-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
55 d
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Median salary
$212k
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| Metric | DensityAI | All employers we track in this specialty (107 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 107 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 10 | 6145 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 34 d | 55 d (−21 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $212k |
Skills observed across this category: electrical hardware, accelerator silicon, schematic design, PCB layout, power delivery, lab bring-up
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 29 open roles · median 55 d
- Qualcomm · 21 open roles · median 43 d
- NVIDIA · 16 open roles · median 74 d
- Intel Corporation · 7 open roles · median 42 d
- Mobileye · 4 open roles · median 22 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 14 d
How we counted: 107 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.