Senior Hardware Engineer, Signal and Power Integrity

At Serve Robotics, we’re reimagining how things move in cities. Our personable sidewalk robot is our vision for the future. It’s designed to take deliveries away from congested streets, make deliveries available to more people, and benefit local businesses.

The Serve fleet has been delighting merchants, customers, and pedestrians along the way in Los Angeles while doing commercial deliveries. We’re looking for talented individuals who will grow robotic deliveries from surprising novelty to efficient ubiquity.

Who We Are

We are tech industry veterans in software, hardware, and design who are pooling our skills to build the future we want to live in. We are solving real-world problems leveraging robotics, machine learning and computer vision, among other disciplines, with a mindful eye towards the end-to-end user experience. Our team is agile, diverse, and driven. We believe that the best way to solve complicated dynamic problems is collaboratively and respectfully.

About The Team
The dynamic and diverse Electrical Engineering team at Serve Robotics ensures product safety and effectiveness. Key to driving company success, they collaborate, innovate, and create efficient solutions for high-performance robotic applications.

What You’ll Be Doing

The Signal Integrity Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the performance and reliability of high-speed electronic systems. They provide design guidelines and technical support throughout system architecture development, PCB layout, product bring-up, debugging, validation, and manufacturing. By conducting in-depth testing, simulations, and system-level validation, they identify and mitigate signal and power integrity issues, optimizing design performance and compliance with industry standards.

This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including hardware designers, manufacturing engineers, customers, and project leadership, to develop robust, high-quality products. The engineer provides feedback from design reviews across multiple disciplines—manufacturing, testing, supply chain, reliability, industrial design, and advanced simulations—to refine and enhance designs. Their expertise in high-speed signaling, impedance control, power integrity, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is essential for developing next-generation electronic products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced technical solutions for complex, multi-domain projects, contributing to project planning and scheduling.  

• Model high-density I/Os, multi-layer PCBs, flex circuits, cables, and connectors, analyzing parameters such as reflections, bandwidth, and crosstalk.  

• Utilize industry-standard simulation tools, including HSPICE, Sigrity, ADS, Ansys SIwave, and HFSS 3D.  

• Perform transmission line and via modeling, conducting experiments to validate methodologies and outcomes.  

• Analyze PCB layouts to identify and resolve Signal Integrity and Power Integrity issues.  

• Provide practical design recommendations based on simulation results, collaborating closely with PCB and package design teams.  

• Conduct simulations for memory interfaces and high-speed serial I/O at board and package levels.  

• Optimize decoupling capacitor placement and minimize loop inductance for enhanced performance.  

• Stay updated on industry trends, regulations, and best practices to ensure cutting-edge methodologies in design and validation.  

• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) in one or more technical areas, acting as a go-to resource for technical challenges.

Qualifications

• MS in Electrical Engineering.

• 5+ years of industry experience, with a deep understanding of signal integrity fundamentals for both single-ended and differential signals.

• Expert proficiency in 2.5D (PowerSI, SIWave) and 3D full-wave (HFSS) modeling; extensive experience with quasi-static tools (Q3D) for accurate interconnect analysis.

• Extensive experience modeling interconnects, including passive components, connectors, cables, multi-layer PCBs, flex circuits, and packages using 3D electromagnetic tools to optimize design performance.

• Proficient in scripting languages such as Matlab, Python, PERL, or equivalent, for automating simulations and analysis to enhance system-level design and validation.

• Experience designing and developing equalizations for high-speed differential, single-ended, and low-speed GPIO signals, ensuring signal integrity across complex systems.

• Hands-on expertise in frequency and time domain measurements using VNA and TDR, including advanced skills in calibration, de-embedding, and ensuring accurate results in signal analysis.

• Experience supporting the design and development of custom cables, factory builds, and electrical compliance testing.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and vendors.

What makes you standout

• PhD in Electrical Engineering

• Familiarity with the NVIDIA Jetson platform.

• Proficiency in ADS.

• Expertise in thermal testing and EMC/EMI compliance verification.

• Familiarity with one or more areas: sensors, motors, batteries, cameras, power systems, and thermal design.

• Experience managing overseas vendor partnerships and factory support.

• Industry experience in automotive, medical, aerospace, or robotics.

• Proficiency in developing automation scripts (Python, Bash) for hardware testing.