Electrical Engineer

3 Months ago • Upto 2 Years • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Valve is seeking experienced Electrical Engineers to contribute to the design and production of world-class gaming hardware such as the Steam Deck, Valve Index, and Steam Controller. Responsibilities include collaborating on product goals, designing and evaluating novel hardware, working closely with contract manufacturers, and ensuring high-volume production. Candidates should possess strong skills in CAD/EDA tools (Altium preferred), electronics prototyping, embedded systems, and design for manufacturing and test (DFM/DFT). Experience with high-volume consumer electronics is essential.
Must have:
  • Proven design skills with Altium Designer
  • Hands-on prototyping experience
  • Strong lab skills & test equipment use
  • Embedded systems & digital communication interfaces (USB, SPI, I2C)
  • Experience with manufacturing partners
  • High-volume consumer electronics design experience
  • DFM/DFT experience
Good to have:
  • Analog circuit design and simulation
  • Low-power design
  • RF/wireless circuit design
  • Firmware development
  • High-speed board design
  • DSP
  • High-speed video interfaces
  • Regulatory compliance testing
  • C/C++ software development
  • Test automation
  • FPGA/ASIC design

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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