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Staff ASIC Validation Engineer

Nokia Corporation San Jose, California, United States

onsitefull-time

Salary: $131,191 - $258,498 / year

Posted Feb 26, 2026

Role & seniority: Applied R&D / Digital Hardware engineer (seniority not specified)

Stack/tools: Digital hardware design (baseband), high-density boards, high-speed interfaces, precision reference clocks; analogue design knowhow and simulation capabilities

Top 3 responsibilities

  1. Specify, design, and implement digital/baseband hardware

  2. Optimize for low cost, high yield, and high reliability

  3. Integrate analogue considerations and perform simulations to validate designs

Must-have skills

  • Digital hardware design for baseband hardware

  • Experience with high-density boards and high-speed connections

  • Precision reference clocks and timing/clocking

  • Analogue design knowhow and simulation capabilities

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in telecom/baseband product development

  • Knowledge of hardware validation, testing, and manufacturing considerations

  • Prior techno-economic or multi-discipline project exposure

  • Location & work type: Location and work-type not specified (unspecified).

Full Description

Family Description

Applied R&D (AR) consists of target-oriented research either with the goal of solving a particular problem / answering a specific question or for multi-discipline design, development, and implementation of hardware, software, and systems including maintenance support. Supplies techno-economic consulting to clients. AR work is characterised by its detailed and complex nature in order to systematically combine existing knowledge and practices to further developing and incrementally improving products, operational processes, and customer-specific feature development.

Subfamily Description

Digital Hardware (DHA) comprises the specification, design, and implementation of digital hardware (baseband hardware) while applying design targets such as low cost, high yield, and high reliability. Digital boards are high density boards with numerous components including high speed connections and high precision reference clocks. DHA requires analogue design knowhow and simulation capabilities.

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