Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering
General Summary
As a Hardware Board Design Engineer, you will work with your fellow members of the platform team, cross-functional teams, and vendors to deliver high quality board designs with a timely, successful release to production.
Roles and Responsibilities
Work/interact within a project team (hardware, software, asic, etc) to design boards and write system documentation
Work with vendors and the project team to accomplish component selection
Create and/or validate footprints and schematic symbols
Schematic capture using ORCAD and board layout using Allegro tools
Develop/document board/system hardware test plan working with team members
Contribute to board/system bring-up and system integration efforts
Develop test scripts as required in the project to help with testing.
Work with manufacturing through successful production/customer-shipment
Preferred Qualifications
BS with 5+ years experience or equivalent
Experience with high-speed board/system design, logic design, schematic capture, component selection, board layout, and testing
Strong knowledge related to signal integrity, power design, thermal management
Experience with design of dense, high layer count PCBs
Expertise with schematic capture & layout tools
Experience importing new parts in EDA databases (footprints and symbols)
Experience in using lab/debug tools (e.g. logic analyzer, PCIe &/or I2C Analyzer, High-speed oscilloscopes, Traffic Generators, etc)
Experience with BOM management and Arena PLM
Technical knowledge and design/working experience with PCIe, DDR3/4 DRAM, Ethernet, serdes, I2C/SPI/MDIO
Experience with CPLD/FPGA design and deployment
Lab bring-up, testing, and debugging (including board-related bring-up with software, familiarity with signal-integrity aspects, etc)
Working knowledge/experience with scripting (Python, PERL, TCL, etc)
EMI, materials, and safety compliance requirements/testing
Physical Requirements
Frequently transports between offices, buildings, and campuses up to ½ mile.
Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 5 lbs.
Performs required tasks at various heights (e.g., standing or sitting).
Monitors and utilizes computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day.
Continuous communication which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Bachelors - Computer Science, Bachelors - Engineering, Bachelors - Information Systems
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Work Experiences:
Certifications:
Skills:
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