Hardware Engineer, Accelerator Design

Job Title

Hardware Engineer, Accelerator Design

Role Summary

Work on custom AI accelerator hardware for Meta's data centers, focusing on electrical and board-level design to deliver production-ready accelerator systems. The role spans PCB review, power delivery, signal integrity, hardware bring-up, and cross-functional collaboration with silicon, firmware, thermal, and manufacturing teams.

Experience Level

Entry-level / Early-career — typically requires 2+ years of relevant electrical or hardware engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include design, validation, and qualification of accelerator electrical subsystems and supporting bring-up and field validation.

• Design and validate electrical systems for AI accelerator hardware: PCB review, power delivery network analysis, and signal integrity assessment.
• Develop and execute hardware bring-up plans for accelerator boards and system-level platforms in data center environments.
• Collaborate with silicon, firmware, and thermal teams to define electrical requirements and resolve cross-domain constraints.
• Perform pre- and post-silicon electrical characterization: power rail measurements, eye diagram analysis, and high-speed SerDes validation.
• Create and maintain electrical schematics and design documentation for accelerator subsystems.
• Support design-for-manufacturability reviews and work with contract manufacturers to resolve electrical yield and reliability issues.
• Analyze failure modes and conduct root-cause investigations for electrical faults found during validation or deployment.
• Define electrical test strategies and automated test equipment setups for hardware qualification.
• Engage with component vendors to evaluate and qualify power management ICs, connectors, and high-speed interconnects.

Requirements

Clear division of must-have technical experience and preferred skills.

• Must-have: 2+ years of experience in electrical or hardware engineering focused on high-performance compute, accelerator, or data center hardware design.
• 2+ years experience with PCB schematic capture, layout review, and signal integrity analysis for high-speed digital interfaces (examples: PCIe, DDR, HBM, SerDes links).
• 2+ years experience with power delivery network design and analysis, including decoupling strategy, voltage regulator selection, and power integrity simulation.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, electrical characterization, and debugging using lab instruments (oscilloscopes, network analyzers, power analyzers).
• Nice-to-have: Exposure to hardware reliability and qualification standards (JEDEC, IPC), experience with SPICE/HyperLynx/Ansys SIwave, custom ASIC or GPU accelerator board design, and thermal-electrical co-design for high-TDP systems.

Education Requirements

BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline is required.

About the Company

Company: Meta Platforms

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, United States

American technology company that develops social networking products (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) and invests in virtual/augmented reality hardware and software through Reality Labs, focusing on connectivity, advertising, and immersive computing experiences.