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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Hardware Design Engineer in Milpitas - **Company:** Energy Jobline - **Location:** Milpitas, CA, United States - **Salary:** $155,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Network Analysis, Ethernet, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, PCI Express, Value Engineering, Wi-Fi Technology, Performance Testing, Hardware Testing, Wireless Devices - **Published:** August 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/staff-hardware-design-engineer-milpitas-31396041 ## About the Role Tarana is a fast revenue growth company built by outstanding talented people and with innovative technology. Our hardware development team is looking for a smart, experienced, and hardworking member working to design and test Hardware systems in different configurations. The ideal candidate would have 12+ years experience with wireless hardware (5G client devices, base stations, Wi-Fi) design aspects and will have very deep familiarity with digital, mechanical, analog baseband and RF designs. He or she will also have expertise using such equipment as spectrum and network analyzers and high speed oscilloscopes. Experience with Ethernet, DDR4 waveforms and protocols, wireless performance tests are desired. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and 12 years of hardware design and test., * Bachelor's degree (MS ) in Electrical Engineering with 12+ years of relevant Experience. * Wireless hardware design expertise (digital and analog) with complex high-speed board design experience. * Ability to define subsystem performance requirements, analyze through modeling and simulations. * Design PCBAs from concept, architecture, schematics, layout, bringing up, testing and all the way to high-volume production. * Hardware test equipment usage (eg, spectrum analyzers or power meters, Ethernet traffic testing, High-speed serial lanes testing) and guide 4-corner testing and qualification. * Familiar with design cycles and able to use the Arena PLM tool. * Knowledge of networking is highly desirable. * Able to work well with cross-functional teams, such as the compliance team (to help get regulatory approvals), the RF team (to test and integrate into products with antennas and test/knowledge of S parameters, phase noise and isolation, return loss, etc), the OPS teams (solving production issues) and the SW teams. * Statistical analysis abilities are a plus. ## Description * High-speed circuit designs including fast processors, modern large-scale FPGAs, DDRs, PCIe and other high-speed SerDes and high-efficiency power supplies. * Schematics and layout design for innovative high speed wireless systems. * Circuit designs using discretes (passive and active) for integration, filtering, etc. * Work with extended cross-functional teams of other hardware designers, mechanical engineers, operations engineers and software engineers. * Work with product management, Operations and Engineering leadership to define the requirements and trade-offs. * Provide leadership in value engineering to continuously improve performance and cost. * Understand and make design recommendations to improve radio frequency performance. ## Related Videos - [The Gashlycrumb Tinies of AI Networking You Must Know (or Languish!)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2067-the-gashlycrumb-tinies-of-ai-networking-you-must-know-or-languish) - [More efficient software for more efficient microchips](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1164-more-efficient-software-for-more-efficient-microchips) - [Quantum Computing - The tiny and the big challenges](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/934-quantum-computing-the-tiny-and-the-big-challenges) - [Building a hypercar from scratch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/607-building-a-hypercar-from-scratch) - [The future of automotive mobility: Upcoming E/E architectures, V2X and its challenges](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/374-the-future-of-automotive-mobility-upcoming-e-e-architectures-v2x-and-its-challenges) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [How Much Does a Software Engineer Make? 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