About the job
SummaryBy Outscal
Valve is looking for experienced Electrical Engineers with strong hardware design skills, particularly in CAD/EDA tools, prototyping, and embedded systems. Experience with high-volume consumer electronics, DFM/DFT, and manufacturing collaboration is crucial. Expertise in analog circuits, low-power design, and RF/wireless circuits is advantageous.
At Valve, electrical engineers deliver world class hardware products, such as Steam Deck, Valve Index, and Steam Controller. Across the electrical engineering group, we contribute in a variety of ways:
Collaborate to define product goalsConceive, design, evaluate, and produce novel gaming hardwareWork closely with contract manufacturers to prototype and produce hardware at scales from tens to millions of unitsElectrical engineers at Valve have significant industry experience. We usually don’t hire recent graduates. Members of our team typically have the following skills:
Proven start-to-finish design skills with industry-standard CAD/EDA tools (Altium Designer experience strongly preferred), including schematic entry, PCB layout, component definition, and CAD library managementHands-on electronics prototyping experience, including soldering and rework of fine-pitch SMT componentsStrong lab skills, including the use of common test and measurement equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.) to debug and characterize complex electronic circuitsExperience with embedded systems design and common digital communication interfaces (USB, SPI, I2C)Experience working directly on-site with manufacturing partnersA proven track record of designing and shipping high-volume consumer electronics productsExperience in design for manufacture and design for test (DFM/DFT) of electronic devicesAbility to think and work across a variety of subject areasBachelor's degree (or equivalent work experience) in electrical engineering or a related fieldOur team includes individuals with expertise in the following areas:
Analog circuit design and simulation (e.g. SPICE)Low-power design, including battery management and charging circuits for portable devicesRF/wireless circuit design, including design of antennas and for EMCFirmware development for 8, 16, 32-bit microcontrollers (e.g. ARM)High speed/HDI board designDigital Signal Processing (DSP)High speed video interfaces (HDMI, Display Port, LVDS, MIPI)Regulatory compliance testing (e.g. FCC/CE/UL)C/C++ software developmentTest automationFPGA/ASIC design 
