Hardware Engineer
Family: Low-level & domain-heavy
Designs and validates electronic hardware (boards, circuits, and systems) and ensures they meet electrical and mechanical specifications.
Day to day
Creates schematics and PCB layouts, performs signal integrity analysis, writes board bring-up test plans, and debugs hardware issues with lab instruments.
Core skills
- schematic capture
- PCB layout
- signal integrity
- hardware bring-up
- EDA tools