Electrical Engineer (Gaming Hardware)

Location: Work in person in Bellevue, WA, USA

Company

Valve develops gaming hardware products including Steam Deck, Valve Index, and Steam Controller.

What you will do

• Collaborate to define product goals and conceive, design, evaluate, and produce gaming hardware.
• Develop electronics from schematic entry and PCB layout through prototyping, evaluation, and production.
• Work directly with contract manufacturers to prototype and produce hardware at scales from tens to millions of units.
• Debug and characterize complex electronic circuits using laboratory test and measurement equipment.

Requirements

• Proven start-to-finish design experience with industry-standard CAD/EDA tools, including schematic entry, PCB layout, component definition, and CAD library management; Altium Designer is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on electronics prototyping experience, including soldering and rework of fine-pitch SMT components.
• Strong laboratory skills with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other common test and measurement equipment.
• Experience designing embedded systems and using digital communication interfaces such as USB, SPI, and I2C.
• Experience working on-site with manufacturing partners and a proven record of designing and shipping high-volume consumer electronics products.
• Experience with design for manufacture and design for test of electronic devices.
• Ability to work across a variety of subject areas.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in electrical engineering or a related field. Recent graduates are generally not hired.

Nice to have

• Expertise in analog circuit design and simulation, low-power and battery-management design, RF/wireless circuits, firmware for 8-, 16-, or 32-bit microcontrollers, high-speed or HDI board design, DSP, high-speed video interfaces, regulatory compliance testing, C/C++ development, test automation, or FPGA/ASIC design.

Culture & Benefits

• Groups decide how to dedicate 100% of their time.
• Collaboration with experts across a range of disciplines.
• Flexible scheduling and a work environment supporting families and domestic partnerships.
• Health insurance, a 401(k) employer match, vacation, family leave, fertility and adoption assistance, and on-site amenities.
• Child-care reimbursement is available for interviews.

Hiring process

• Send a resume through the application page.