Senior Hardware Design Engineer, Devices

HP IQ • San Francisco, CA

4h

About The Position

HP IQ is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to support the design and development of low-power electronic devices. This role focuses on detailed schematic execution, validation, and debugging under the technical direction of senior engineers. The ideal candidate has strong circuit fundamentals, hands-on experience with schematic and layout tools, and a background working within well-defined engineering processes at top-tier organizations.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of professional experience in electrical engineering and system architecture.
• Strong understanding of circuit fundamentals, including low-power analog and high-speed signaling.
• Hands-on experience with Cadence schematic capture and PCB layout tools.
• Proven experience executing schematic design, validation, and debugging.
• Ability to work effectively under technical direction and within cross-functional team

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading or contributing to low-power consumer or medical electronic systems from concept through production.
• Background at top-tier organizations with proven, mature hardware development practices.
• Experience with small, space-constrained devices and power-sensitive designs.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex hardware issues efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Power architecture responsibility for a wearable device covering SoC states, sensor, audio, and memory architecture tradeoffs at board level.
• Battery, PCM, and charging profile definition and validation
• Design power experiments, test plans, and measurement & telemetry mechanisms across firmware and hardware to optimize power and performance.
• Build and maintain system-level power models to model expected power consumption for user profiles. Map power models by subsystem, correlating modeled behavior with instrumented measurements.
• Define user profiles, power and sleep states, and low-power operating modes
• Partner closely with product, hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and regression QA to drive alignment and execution toward power targets.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level