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# Hardware Design Engineer

- **Company:** Vaarida Technologies Llc
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Computer-Aided Design, Hardware Design, PCI Express, Signal Integrity, Toolchain, Hardware Testing, Nvme
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/f9603ab5-9667-4fff-a6da-4e74b539acbc

## About the Role

High Speed Complex Hardware Design and Failure Analysis experience

Must have 8+ yrs experience in the hardware design, specific networking or equally

complex products

Hands on with Hardware design with interfaces - High Speed SERDES (>25G), PCIe

Gen 5 and above and experience with all low speed interfaces like SPI, I2C, MDIO, SMB etc.

Working experience with optical interfaces like QSFP, QSFP DD, OSFP would be an advantage.

Experience with DDR5, SSD NVME/PCIe based interfaces

Worked on complex power supply designs and architecture for networking product

Hands on with Cadence tool chain for schematic/CAD design.

Must worked on board bring up, various hardware validation testing and failure analysis.

Good at testing and validating networking products and must worked on qualification of

networking products against functional specification.

Preferred Qualifications

Working knowledge on Mechanical and Thermal Design

Signal Integrity and power Integrity analysis

Manufacturing of electronic products