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# Sr. Network Hardware Engineer

- **Company:** Capgemini
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $73,150.0 - $174,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, High-Level Architecture, Networking Hardware, PCI Express, Schematic Capture, Network Switches, Network Routers, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Hardware Testing, Pcb Layout
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/36152A621B444634A1EC3D3DC0308AD6/job/

## About the Role

* You bring 7+ years of experience in network hardware engineering, including hardware architecture or product development for routers, network switches, telecommunications equipment, or comparable high-speed electronic systems.
 * You hold abachelor's degree in electrical engineering.
 * You have strong experience designing and analyzing high-speed digital interfaces, including DDR, SERDES, PCIe, clocking circuits, and advanced networking interfaces such as 800G.
 * You have hands-on experience with PCB stack-up development and pre-layout and post-layout signal-integrity and power-integrity analysis.
 * You understand the selection and integration of processors, systems-on-chip, FPGAs, GPUs, memory, network switches, clocking devices, and power-management components.
 * You have experience with schematic development, thermal analysis, board bring-up, electrical validation, design verification, stress testing, and board-level functional testing.
 * You demonstrate strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to resolve complex hardware issues and work effectively across engineering teams.

## Description

As a Senior Hardware Network Engineer, you will lead hardware architecture and design activities for next-generation routers, network switches, and high-speed networking platforms, including systems supporting 800G line cards. You will collaborate with software, PCB layout, mechanical, applications, and validation teams to solve complex design challenges and deliver reliable products. This position offers the opportunity to apply your expertise in high-speed digital design, signal and power integrity, thermal analysis, board bring-up, and hardware validation throughout the product development lifecycle.

Your Role

 * You will develop hardware architectures for next-generation routers, network switches, and high-speed networking products.
 * You will lead requirements analysis, high-level design, schematic capture, critical component selection, and hardware design analysis.
 * You will select and integrate processors, systems-on-chip, DDR memory, GPUs, FPGAs, network switches, PCIe switches, clocking devices, and power-management components.
 * You will define PCB stack-ups that meet product thickness, signal speed, power architecture, and trace impedance requirements.
 * You will perform pre-layout and post-layout signal-integrity analysis, including clock-jitter, eye-diagram, crosstalk, DDR, and SERDES simulations.
 * You will conduct power-integrity and thermal analyses, including voltage-drop, current-density, plane-noise, decoupling, component hot-spot, heat-sink, and thermal-interface-material evaluations.
 * You will support board bring-up, electrical validation, stress testing, and board-level functional testing while collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.