Lead Systems Signal Integrity/Power Integrity Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
$220,000 - $250,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 3 September 2026 by the employer.
Solve complex signal integrity and power integrity problems for high-speed AI compute platforms.
About the role
What you'll do
- Solve complex signal integrity and power integrity problems for high-speed AI compute platforms, including chip-to-chip and chip-to-board interfaces. - Perform advanced pre-layout and post-layout SI/PI analysis across PCBs, flex circuits, rigid-flex assemblies, connectors, and advanced packages. - Lead root-cause analysis of challenging SI/PI issues such as margin shortfalls, impedance discontinuities, coupling, resonances, and simulation-to-hardware mismatches. - Analyze and troubleshoot power delivery networks using DC and AC simulations and hardware correlation to resolve performance and stability issues. - Define and refine PCB, rigid-flex, and flex circuit stack-ups, material selections, and impedance structures as required to meet performance targets. - Review schematics, PCB layouts, and flex designs to identify SI/PI risks and recommend targeted design changes.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. - 15+ years of demonstrated depth of expertise in system-level signal integrity and power integrity engineering for high-speed hardware systems. - Deep expertise in high-speed serial and parallel interface analysis and debug. - Strong hands-on experience with PCB, rigid-flex, and flex circuit stack-up design and analysis. - Advanced SI/PI analysis of flex connectors, high-density interconnects, and advanced packaging technologies. - Proficiency with 2D and 3D electromagnetic simulation tools. - Power delivery network analysis, simulation, and lab correlation at the system level. - Strong grounding in transmission line theory, microwave engineering, and high-speed design fundamentals. - Proven ability to correlate simulation results with hardware behavior and drive concrete design fixes.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale AI or high-performance compute systems is preferred.
Skills: signal integrity, power integrity, high-speed AI compute platforms, PCB layouts, flex circuits, electromagnetic simulation
This role has been open 41 days — well below the 110-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
88
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Median days open
110 d
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Median salary
$199k
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| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (88 roles · 35 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 88 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 76 | 6135 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 61 d | 110 d (−49 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $199k |
Skills observed across this category: signal integrity, power integrity, high-speed AI compute platforms, PCB layouts, flex circuits, electromagnetic simulation
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 15 open roles · median 58 d
- Qualcomm · 10 open roles · median 189 d
- AMD · 6 open roles · median 114 d
- Keysight Technologies · 4 open roles · median 142 d
- Broadcom · 3 open roles · median 199 d
- Intel Corporation · 3 open roles · median 2 d
How we counted: 88 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 35 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.