Electrical Engineer

We’re always looking to add talented individuals to our team.

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

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

Like most roles at Valve, we don't have headcount targets, we aren’t actively looking to fill an open position, and we don’t generally require specific credentials or qualifications. We’re just always looking for great people to hire.

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