Electrical Engineer

7 Months ago • Upto 2 Years • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Electrical Engineer at Valve, you'll be responsible for delivering world-class hardware products like Steam Deck, Valve Index, and Steam Controller. You'll collaborate with teams to define product goals, design and evaluate novel gaming hardware, and work closely with contract manufacturers for prototyping and production. You'll need proven design skills using industry-standard tools like Altium Designer, hands-on experience with electronics prototyping, strong lab skills, and a deep understanding of embedded systems, communication interfaces, and manufacturing processes. You'll have the opportunity to design and ship high-volume consumer electronics products and contribute to the cutting edge of gaming technology.
Must have:
  • Proven design skills with CAD/EDA tools (Altium Designer experience preferred)
  • Hands-on electronics prototyping experience
  • Strong lab skills with test and measurement equipment
  • Embedded systems design experience
  • Experience with common digital communication interfaces (USB, SPI, I2C)
  • Experience working with manufacturing partners
  • Proven track record of designing and shipping high-volume consumer electronics products
  • Experience in DFM/DFT of electronic devices
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field
Good to have:
  • Analog circuit design and simulation (e.g. SPICE)
  • Low-power design experience
  • RF/wireless circuit design experience
  • Firmware development experience
  • High speed/HDI board design experience
  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP) experience
  • High speed video interface experience
  • Regulatory compliance testing experience
  • C/C++ software development experience
  • Test automation experience
  • FPGA/ASIC design experience

Job Details

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 goals
  • Conceive, design, evaluate, and produce novel gaming hardware
  • Work closely with contract manufacturers to prototype and produce hardware at scales from tens to millions of units
  • Electrical 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 management
  • Hands-on electronics prototyping experience, including soldering and rework of fine-pitch SMT components
  • Strong lab skills, including the use of common test and measurement equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.) to debug and characterize complex electronic circuits
  • Experience with embedded systems design and common digital communication interfaces (USB, SPI, I2C)
  • Experience working directly on-site with manufacturing partners
  • A proven track record of designing and shipping high-volume consumer electronics products
  • Experience in design for manufacture and design for test (DFM/DFT) of electronic devices
  • Ability to think and work across a variety of subject areas
  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent work experience) in electrical engineering or a related field
  • Our 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 devices
  • RF/wireless circuit design, including design of antennas and for EMC
  • Firmware development for 8, 16, 32-bit microcontrollers (e.g. ARM)
  • High speed/HDI board design
  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
  • High speed video interfaces (HDMI, Display Port, LVDS, MIPI)
  • Regulatory compliance testing (e.g. FCC/CE/UL)
  • C/C++ software development
  • Test automation
  • FPGA/ASIC design
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