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Electrical Engineer, Hardware Systems

Density · Mountain View, CA · On-site

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About Density

Density shows you how people use your space and helps you get more out of every square foot. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and South Park Commons.

About the role

Design and bring up the electrical hardware that turns our AI accelerator silicon into working systems — boards, power delivery, and system-level electrical design from schematic through lab bring-up and validation. You'll sit at the seam between silicon/ packaging and the systems our accelerators run in, and own the board-level hardware that makes them work.

What they're looking for

  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering plus 5+ years in board/system-level electrical design for complex high-speed digital systems
  • Schematic capture and PCB design (Altium, Cadence Allegro, or equivalent), including high-speed interfaces (DDR/LPDDR, PCIe, SerDes) and power-delivery design
  • Hands-on lab bring-up and debug: oscilloscopes, logic and protocol analyzers, power and thermal characterization
  • Solid grounding in signal integrity, power integrity, and EMC at the board level
  • (Optional) High-current PDN for accelerators/GPUs, server/board design at hyperscale, FPGA-based systems, firmware / low-level bring-up, thermal co-design, ANSYS HFSS/SIwave or equivalent EM tools
More about this role

Design and bring up the electrical hardware that turns our AI accelerator silicon into working systems — boards, power delivery, and system-level electrical design from schematic through lab bring-up and validation. You'll sit at the seam between silicon/ packaging and the systems our accelerators run in, and own the board-level hardware that makes them work.

  • Own schematic design and drive PCB layout for accelerator boards and system hardware — high-speed digital, power delivery, and clocking
  • Design and validate power-delivery networks (PDN) and rails for high-current accelerator silicon; partner with SI/PI and packaging on the board package interface
  • Bring up new boards in the lab — debug, characterize, and validate against spec using scopes, logic/protocol analyzers, and power/thermal instrumentation
  • Drive component selection, DFM/DFT for boards, and work with contract manufacturers and vendors through fab, assembly, and yield
  • Partner across silicon, packaging, SI/PI, thermal, and firmware/bring-up teams to close electrical issues end to end
  • Use and develop AI-assisted tool flows to accelerate design and debug
  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering plus 5+ years in...

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