Senior Staff Engineer, Customer Quality
$162,600 - $244,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Senior Staff Engineer, Customer Quality plans, designs, optimizes, verifies, and tests electronic systems, circuits, bring-up yield, and test systems.
What you'll do
- Plan, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment, packaging, test systems, FPGA, and DSP systems. - Participate in or lead the implementation of advanced design rules and processes for electronic hardware, equipment, and integrated circuitry. - Conduct simulations and analyses of designs to implement solutions with optimized power, performance, and area. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams across design, verification, validation, software, systems engineering, and architecture development to improve yield, test time, and quality. - Evaluate reliability of materials, properties, and techniques while developing manufacturing solutions and evaluating design features to identify potential issues. - Write detailed technical documentation for hardware projects and review technical documentation prepared by junior engineers.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or a related field with 6+ years of hardware engineering or related experience (or Master's degree with 5+ years, or PhD with 4+ years). - Experience planning, optimizing, verifying, or testing electronic hardware systems and circuits. - Experience with cross-functional collaboration across hardware design, verification, validation, or systems engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field. - 12 years of hardware engineering or related work experience. - 3 years of experience with circuit/logic design/validation (e.g., digital, analog, RF). - 3 years of experience utilizing schematic capture and circuit stimulation software. - 3 years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and RF tools. - 1 year in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.
Skills: electronic systems, circuit/logic design, schematic capture, circuit stimulation, hardware design, measurement instruments
This role has been open 50 days — exactly the 50-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
50 d
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Median salary
$206k
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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 | 22 | 107 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 734 | 6298 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 50 d (+1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $206k |
Skills observed across this category: electronic systems, circuit/logic design, schematic capture, circuit stimulation, hardware design, measurement instruments
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 30 open roles · median 62 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 21 open roles · median 50 d
- NVIDIA · 15 open roles · median 76 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 49 d
- Mobileye · 5 open roles · median 29 d
- Renesas Electronics · 4 open roles · median 1 d
How we counted: 107 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 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.