Job Title: Hardware Design Engineer

Work Model: REMOTE with 10% - 25% travel (West Coast)

Hire Model: Direct Placement

Compensation: $167,000 - $218,000/year Annual Bonus Performance Bonus

Position Level: Principal

What you'll be doing:

As a Hardware Design Engineer in our Data & Devices Business Unit, you will be focused on the compute and networking industry and will interface with customers in order to understand how their systems function and determine their evolving technology needs. The System Architect is responsible for generating the high-level system architecture requirements and ensuring our client's technology and product roadmaps are in line with customer next generation products. This person is required to follow and help drive strategy for key industry communication standards.

Day to Day

• Interfacing with key OEM and other customers
• Identifying potential technology disrupters (which often requires expertise in various technologies)
• Integrating customer needs, compute industry knowledge, and business insight to create compelling visions around technology and product trends that will drive the organization forward.
• Influencing executive leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to invest in new technology and products to meet the next generation needs of our customers and the market.
• Working within a small geographically dispersed system architecture team to share subject matter expertise and best practices.
• Being an industry subject matter expert, collaborating closely with external customers as well as internal business development, strategy and engineering development teams
• Driving high value development projects (hardware and high-speed signaling) that will require you to lead and interface with large groups.
• Manage the technical cooperation with customers and coordinate our client's internal development engineering team to assure technical and functional feasibility from the eyes of the customer.
• Ensuring we are following required industry standards while also helping to drive the strategy for new standards.

Desired Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. Having a dual bachelor’s degree in business or MBA is a plus
• 12 years' experience in compute and/or networking industry system design and related technologies
• In-depth knowledge of hardware and associated signaling environments. Technical expertise in high-speed signaling and engineering design
• Familiarity with AI, compute, networking and storage architectures.
• The geographically dispersed group requires that the candidate be self-motivating with the ability to take the initiative to accomplish tasks with limited direction
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Effectively able to build relationships with external customers and industry leaders as well as internally across all levels, disciplines, and geographies
• Ability to spend 10%-25% of your time traveling to various client sites on the West Coast

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.