Senior Electronics Design Engineer – PCBA Design

Location: San Diego, California, United States; onsite role supporting electronic hardware development and semiconductor manufacturing systems.

Salary: $152,600–$209,825 annual base salary.

Company

hirify.global develops lithography systems that enable leading chipmakers to manufacture faster, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips.

What you will do

• Design and develop complex active PCBAs for electronic control systems.
• Define board-level architectures for FPGA, processor, memory, communication, and sensor-interface functions.
• Create schematics, select and qualify components, and define electrical constraints for signal integrity, power integrity, EMC, grounding, shielding, and thermal performance.
• Support PCB layout reviews, board bring-up, verification, debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and multidisciplinary internal teams through prototype, qualification, and production release.
• Contribute to hardware roadmaps, EOL redesign, obsolescence mitigation, design reviews, DFMEA, and mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 10 years of industry experience in electronic hardware development, including at least 7 years designing complex active PCBAs for demanding applications.
• Experience with FPGA, processor, memory, high-speed communication interfaces, SoC power distribution, clocking, and high-speed board design.
• Experience with LTspice or comparable SPICE tools, schematic capture, PCB layout support, board verification, bring-up, debugging, and failure analysis.
• Knowledge of PCIe, Ethernet, SRIO, DDR, SPI, and I2C interfaces operating at 1–25 Gbps, plus signal integrity, power integrity, EMC/EMI, reliability, and qualification methods.
• Must be legally authorized to access controlled technology under United States Export Administration Regulations before starting work.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AMD/Xilinx-based SoC design.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with system architects, FPGA designers, embedded software engineers, EMC specialists, mechanical engineers, manufacturing teams, and suppliers.
• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance are available for employees and their families.
• 401(k) plan participation.
• Eight hours of vacation leave per month and 13 paid holidays annually.
• Inclusive workplace with equal-opportunity employment practices and reasonable accommodation support.