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Looking for a hands-on Sr Principal HW Design Engineer/HW architect who wants to expand their scope and grow their career. This position is located in our San Jose headquarter office, reports to the Sr Engineering Group Director of R&D and works in a growing talented organization.\nOur emulation-acceleration system platform is the most advanced industry-leading configurable scalable system, generation after generation, used in labs and datacenters. This position requires the engineer to architect systems, design boards, schematic entry, work with layout engineers to do PCB layout, signal integrity knowledge, bring-up, and sustain the current hardware platforms.\nKey responsibilities\nResponsible for architecture, design, bring-up, and sustain of hardware system platform.\nContinuously develop and apply technical domain expertise in Hardware Engineering. 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