PRINCIPAL HARDWARE ENGINEER

About the role

Innovation Starts With You Propel your career at Belden, where innovation creates possibilities—for our people, our customers, and the communities we serve. We connect people, information, and ideas to solve the world’s most complex connectivity challenges, turning curiosity into meaningful impact. Here, you’ll take on work that challenges you, supports your growth, and empowers you to shape what’s next. You’ll collaborate with global teams, gain diverse perspectives, and contribute to solutions that extend beyond our business—creating value in the world around us. Together, we are shaping the future of digitization and paving the way for the next generation of innovation.

RUCKUS Networks, a Belden brand, focuses on delivering cutting-edge solutions to create a smarter, simpler, more connected world. At the heart of global connectivity are the engineers who write innovative software for our award-winning routing and switching products to bring the information quickly and reliably where needed. We are a pioneer in the wireless infrastructure market, enabling carriers and enterprises to stay ahead of the exploding demand for high-bandwidth applications and services. Our RUCKUS Smart Wi-Fi, LTE, and Switching technology redefines what’s possible in wireless network performance with flexibility, reliability, and affordability.

Responsibilities

• Design, bring-up Wi-Fi AP products and accessories
• Debug and validate Wi-fi AP designs
• Investigate, present, and evaluate new hardware solutions and/or PoC
• Review and evaluate designs of outsourced projects
• Work with RF team and Antenna team to integrate designs and validate designs together
• Generate necessary documents for all categories listed above, such as PoC, PRD, HRD, HWFS, BOM, test plan, FA report…
• Support compliance testing
• Sustain legacy products

Requirements

• Minimum BSEE with 5+ years of relevant experience in high-speed digital hardware design
• Must have experience in all aspects of hardware design including schematics capture, PCB layout constraint, DFM implementation, bring-up and design validations
• Must have experience in common interfaces, PCIe, 10GE, DDR4, SPI, I2C, USB, UART...
• Excellent knowledge of SI and PI for high-speed designs
• Excellent knowledge of DC/DC switching power supply including PoE PSE and PD
• Strong proficiency in OrCAD, Allegro, Arena, Ms office
• Familiarity with design for compliance/regulatory testing
• Familiarity with lab equipment, logic analyzer, oscilloscope, Sifos PoE tester, thermal chamber…
• Good communication skills and be able to work with all cross-function teams
• Ability to proactively lead the whole design from scratch to product

Qualifications

You'll excite us if you have:

• Basic knowledge of RF and antenna
• Familiarity with main Wi-Fi SOC in the industry, like Qualcomm or Broadcom, is a big plus
• Ability to manage the 3rd party for souring components, design and/or design reviews
• Experience in ODM, JDM design and contractor manufacture

Benefits

Belden offers hybrid and remote work practices where feasible and provides employees with benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives and a work culture which includes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability

Pay

Applicants can expect a base compensation range of $135,600.00-$200,000.00 plus benefits and additional incentives based on the level of the role.