Senior Designer

Senior Designer

Seeking an experienced Hardware Board Design Engineer with 8+ years of expertise in designing and delivering complex hardware platforms. This role is responsible for driving end-to-end board design—from capturing platform-level requirements to supporting architects in defining system design strategies, schematic development, component selection, and platform bring-up. The candidate should possess in-depth technical knowledge in high-speed digital, analog, and mixed-signal designs. Exposure to silicon validation and characterization platforms will be good to have.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end design and development of hardware platforms, translating based on system architecture and specifications.
• Expertise in complex processor-, FPGA-, and ASIC-based systems, ensuring alignment with platform performance, power, thermal, and cost objectives.
• Develop and review circuit designs, simulations, and trade-off analyses to ensure robust and scalable hardware solutions.
• Review PCB design rules, including component placement, high-speed routing constraints, stack-up definitions, and signal/power integrity considerations.
• Review design simulations (SI/PI/Thermal) results.
• Responsible to drive the schematic capture, PCB layout, and design package creation from feasibility through tape-out.
• Evaluate and optimize BOM cost, part availability, and risk mitigation strategies for the platform.
• Lead board bring-up, power-on, and platform debug activities in collaboration with architects, validation engineers, and system integration teams.
• Resolve complex system-level issues across electrical, firmware, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing domains.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including architecture, verification, validation, firmware, manufacturing, and customer engineering.
• Integrate feedback to continuously refine design methodologies and enhance platform robustness.

Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in hardware board design life-cycle.
• Strong expertise in processor, FPGA, and SoC-based system design.
• Strong knowledge and experience in High-speed interfaces like DDR5/LPDDR5, PCIe Gen 5/6, USB 3.2 etc...
• Proficiency in circuit design, analysis, and simulation.
• Hands-on experience with key EDA tools such as Concept HDL, OrCAD, Allegro or equivalent.
• Expertise in high-speed digital, analog, and mixed-signal design principles.
• Experience in embedded, telecom, or RF-based hardware platforms is a plus.
• Exposure to thermal and mechanical design review and integration is an added advantage.
• (Advantageous) Experience in silicon validation, electrical characterization, test card design, or platform enablement for early silicon bring-up.

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first. HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 227,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending March 2026 totaled $14.7 billion.

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate's pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.