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What the work is
Role Overview
We are seeking a senior Hardware Design Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, redesigning, simulating, and validating electronic hardware. The role focuses on KiCad-based PCB design and simulation-led redesign, with specialization in Signal Integrity (SI)/Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), thermal simulation, or both.
Experience
4+ years in the relevant simulation specialization and 6+ years of hands-on electronics hardware and PCB design experience
Key Responsibilities
- Translate product requirements into circuit architectures, hardware specifications, and validated designs across digital, high-speed, power, analog, mixed-signal, sensor, communication, or RF applications.
- Use KiCad for schematic capture, component selection, multilayer PCB layout, routing, design-rule checks, BOM preparation, and manufacturing documentation.
- Analyse existing PCB layouts and simulation results to identify SI/EMC or thermal issues, determine root causes, and define measurable acceptance criteria.
- Redesign PCB layouts to resolve identified issues while preserving the original schematic, netlist connectivity, and component selection.
- Simulate and assess relevant design factors, including impedance, reflections, crosstalk, return paths, temperature distribution, heat dissipation, and hotspots.
- Document design decisions, corrective actions, simulation results, and verification findings; support prototype bring-up, debugging, and validation.
Required Skills
- 6+ years of hands-on electronics hardware and PCB design experience, including multilayer layouts and KiCad.
- Strong circuit analysis, component selection, datasheet interpretation, grounding, power distribution, signal integrity, thermal management, and DFM/DFT knowledge.
- At least 4 years of practical experience in SI/EMC simulation, thermal simulation, or both, including setup, execution, and interpretation.
- Ability to correlate simulation results with PCB layout characteristics and assess model inputs, boundary conditions, material properties, and limitations.
- Experience with relevant tools such as Ansys SIwave, HFSS, Cadence Sigrity, Keysight ADS, Ansys Icepak, FloTHERM, COMSOL Multiphysics, OpenFOAM, or equivalent.
Project Details
- Contract Start Date: Expected to start as soon as possible
- Engagement: ~13 weeks (with potential chances of extension)
- Commitment- 40 hours/week
- Engagement Type: Contract
- Selection process: 1 AI Interview and 1 Interview with our team
The platform posted this on 10 Nov 2026.