PCB Hardware Design Engineer

Location: Allentown, PA; Fort Collins, CO; or San Jose, CA, United States

Annual base salary: USD 121,900–195,000

Company

hirify.global develops integrated circuits and products enabling AI and cloud storage for hyperscale data center applications.

What you will do

• Define system-level test architectures with Product Test and Firmware/Software teams.
• Design and capture schematics for system-level and bench PCBs using Allegro CAD tools.
• Create and manage PCB component libraries, design rules, specifications, and stakeholder requirements.
• Collaborate with layout, signal integrity, mechanical, thermal, and vendor teams to deliver manufacturable designs.
• Audit layouts, maintain fabrication and assembly deliverables, and archive manufacturing design files.
• Test, deploy, inventory, debug, and rework manufactured PCBs through ECOs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of PCB development experience, or MSEE with 6+ years; experience must include driving designs through manufacturing and test.
• In-depth schematic capture experience using Allegro tools.
• Experience managing PCB fabrication and assembly vendors.
• Experience production-hardening PCB designs.
• Understanding of transmission lines, high-speed PCB techniques, blind and buried vias, backdrilling, channel loss, crosstalk, and BGA or connector via structures.
• Hands-on board bring-up, soldering, wiring, and use of DMMs and oscilloscopes.
• Comfort with command-line Linux programs and scripting.
• Understanding of hardware/software interfaces, embedded software constraints, mechanical and thermal tradeoffs, and high-power PCB design.
• Understanding of power delivery networks for systems consuming 200+ W per rail and 1–3 kW+ overall.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing detailed via structures for BGAs and connectors.
• Power delivery network simulation skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within a fast-moving, multi-site team focused on continuous improvement and quality output.
• Annual discretionary bonus and new-hire and annual equity awards, subject to plan documents.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans; 401(k) with company matching; and ESPP.
• Employee assistance program, paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation, and applicable family and other leave.

Hiring process

• First-time applicants must create a candidate login account before applying; existing candidates must sign in.
• Applicants outside the USA should provide a home address for future correspondence.