Digital Design & SoC Architecture
$159,600 - $239,400 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Staff Engineer in Hardware Engineering at Qualcomm, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, circuits, and packaging across digital, analog, RF, optical, FPGA, and DSP systems.
What you'll do
- Plan, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, digital/analog/RF/optical systems, test systems, FPGA, and DSP systems.
- Integrate complex features and functionality into hardware designs in line with product proposals and roadmaps.
- Conduct complex simulations and analyses while implementing designs for optimal power, performance, and area.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including design, verification, validation, software, and systems engineering to incorporate test solutions and improve yield, test time, and quality.
- Evaluate complex design features to identify potential flaws, compatibility issues, and compliance issues.
- Author detailed technical documentation for hardware projects.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or a related field with 4+ years of hardware engineering experience (or Master's degree with 3+ years, or PhD with 2+ years).
- Experience in planning, verifying, and testing electronic circuits and hardware systems.
- Experience conducting hardware simulations and design analyses.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of hardware engineering or related work experience.
- 2+ years of experience with circuit design (digital, analog, RF).
- 2+ years of experience utilizing schematic capture and circuit simulation software.
- 2+ 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: schematic capture, circuit simulation, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, hardware design
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