Signal Integrity Measurement Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Validate signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) for advanced compute platforms, focusing on hands-on measurement, electrical compliance, troubleshooting, and simulation correlation.
What you'll do
- Develop measurement plans and design of experiments (DOE) for interconnects.
- Measure S-parameters, insertion loss, return loss, impedance, crosstalk, eye diagrams, jitter, timing margins, and bit error rates.
- Design printed circuit board (PCB) test fixtures; perform calibration, de-embedding, and electrical compliance testing.
- Correlate measurements with simulations and troubleshoot issues with silicon, package, board, and system teams, interconnect vendors, and original design manufacturers (ODMs).
- Prepare validation and compliance reports covering methods, pass/fail results, performance margins, findings, and recommendations.
What you'll need
- Hands-on expertise with vector network analyzers (VNAs), including performance network analyzers (PNAs); time-domain reflectometers (TDRs); bit error rate testers (BERTs); and high-speed oscilloscopes.
- Strong SI/PI fundamentals and experience with fixture characterization, repeatable measurements, DOE, and electrical compliance testing.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Data center or hyperscale hardware experience.
- Python or MATLAB for measurement automation and analysis.
- Familiarity with simulation tools and thermal or mechanical effects on SI/PI.
Tools / Technologies
- Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) generations 4/5/6
- Ethernet
- Double Data Rate (DDR) memory
- Serializer/deserializer (SerDes) links
- Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
- Inter-Integrated Circuit (I²C)
Skills: signal integrity, power integrity, S-parameters, TDRs, BERTs
This role has been open 0 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
87
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Median days open
110 d
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Median salary
$199k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Graphcore | All employers we track in this specialty (87 roles · 35 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 87 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 91 | 6164 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 60 d | 110 d (−50 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $199k |
Skills observed across this category: signal integrity, power integrity, S-parameters, TDRs, BERTs
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 14 open roles · median 78 d
- Qualcomm · 10 open roles · median 188 d
- AMD · 7 open roles · median 107 d
- Keysight Technologies · 4 open roles · median 141 d
- Broadcom · 3 open roles · median 198 d
- Intel Corporation · 3 open roles · median 1 d
How we counted: 87 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 35 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.