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