# Staff Hardware System Design Engineer

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS EngineeringGeneral Summary: Staff Hardware System Design Engineer Location: San Diego, CA (100% On-Site)Employment Type: Full-Time Position Summary You will be part of a hardware design team that builds high-performance FPGA-based emulation platforms. You will own the board design process - schematic capture, PCB stack-up, PCB layout, power and signal integrity simulation, BOM management, and design verification testing - while driving system-level architecture in close partnership with customers and software/firmware teams. You will work cross-functionally to evaluate design trade-offs, direct lab technicians through system installation and debug, and partner with design, CAD, and manufacturing teams on prototyping, testing, and production support. Candidates with broader scope and a track record of technical leadership may be considered at the Staff level, where they will additionally define system architecture across multiple boards/platforms, set design methodology and standards for the team, serve as the primary technical interface with customers, and mentor senior and junior engineers.

- **Id**: 4039476
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/qualcomm-staff-hardware-system-design-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Diego, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T21:41:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9395
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Autonomous Driving, RF & Wireless Hardware, Car Electronics

## Company

- **Id**: 94
- **Name**: Qualcomm
- **Domain**: qualcomm.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/qualcomm>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 69
- **Open postings**: 1044
- **Ghost share**: 0.257
- **Stale share**: 0.149
- **Repost share**: 0.45
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 73
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 145600
- **Max**: 218400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 218400

## Technologies

- **Ansys HFSS** — Optional: no
- **Cadence Sigrity** — Optional: no
- **HyperLynx** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no
- **Xilinx Vivado** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T21:41:10Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,115 · green card filings: 76; Filings 12m: 1115

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 73
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T23:24:02Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 218400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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