Senior Systems Design Engineer - Austin, TX, United States
Originally posted 20 May 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Systems Design Engineer at Mythic, you will own and drive the design and implementation of reference boards and hardware platforms.
What you'll do
- Own the design and development of reference boards and hardware platforms, translating silicon capabilities into system designs. - Drive schematic design and guide PCB layout internally or with external partners. - Own hardware subsystems including power delivery, high-speed interfaces, and clocking while ensuring signal integrity and power integrity. - Define and incorporate package-level constraints into board design and collaborate with OSATs and manufacturing vendors. - Support board bring-up, collaborate on debugging system-level issues, and drive design for manufacturability (DFM) for prototype and production builds. - Work closely with integration, product, test, and packaging teams to ensure system deployment.
What you'll need
- Significant experience in hardware or board-level design. - Strong background in high-speed digital design and power delivery. - Experience designing and bringing up complex PCBs. - Familiarity with PCB design tools such as Altium, Cadence, or similar. - Understanding of package-to-board interactions and system-level constraints. - Experience working with external vendors, including PCB and OSAT partners.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML hardware or high-performance compute platforms. - Exposure to multi-die or chiplet-based systems. - Familiarity with thermal and mechanical considerations in hardware design. - Experience supporting hardware through bring-up and early production.
Skills: hardware design, board-level design, high-speed digital design, power delivery, pcb layout
This role has been open 156 days — well above the 52-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
|
Open roles in category
104
|
Median days open
52 d
|
Median salary
$203k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Mythic | All employers we track in this specialty (104 roles · 27 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 104 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 11 | 6277 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 94 d | 52 d (+42 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $203k |
Skills observed across this category: hardware design, board-level design, high-speed digital design, power delivery, pcb layout
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 29 open roles · median 64 d
- Qualcomm · 22 open roles · median 52 d
- NVIDIA · 13 open roles · median 78 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 51 d
- Mobileye · 5 open roles · median 31 d
- Renesas Electronics · 4 open roles · median 3 d
How we counted: 104 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 27 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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.