Principal Hardware Engineer Board Design

Skills

About the Role

You will own the end-to-end design of custom digital boards, from silicon selection, architecture, schematics, layout, power, and EMC through bring-up, validation, and manufacture. You will design for reliability, security, safety, and production test, support certification readiness, and use Claude Code to improve engineering workflows and documentation.

Requirements

• Have designed and shipped multiple custom digital boards as the responsible engineer, including an embedded Linux-class board using major ARM-vendor silicon
• Demonstrate high-speed digital design expertise, including impedance-controlled routing, length matching, signal integrity, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe, or USB 3
• Demonstrate power-integrity and multi-rail PMIC power-tree design expertise
• Personally perform methodical bench bring-up using scopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG
• Have shipped hardware under a functional-safety or airworthiness regime
• Demonstrate expert Claude Code workflows applied to hardware engineering

Responsibilities

• Select silicon and define board architecture
• Create schematics and PCB layouts
• Design power trees, clocking, reset architecture, and stackups
• Design high-speed digital interfaces with signal and power integrity controls
• Design for thermal, protection, EMC, and demanding environments
• Lead board bring-up and interface validation
• Create test points, checklists, fixtures, and production-test plans
• Own DFM, DFT, BOM health, and fabrication and assembly relationships
• Perform FMEA, single-point-of-failure analysis, and derating analysis
• Implement hardware security controls and trust-domain separation
• Maintain traceability and evidence for safety and certification readiness
• Use Claude Code to automate engineering checks, documentation, and test planning
• Build AI engineering playbooks and guardrails