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Entry Level Signal and Power Integrity/System Hardware Developer Engineer

IBM

Software Engineering, Other Engineering

Rochester, NY, USA

Posted on Dec 6, 2025

Introduction

IBM Infrastructure has an opening for an entry level Signal and Power Integrity/Hardware Development Engineer. As a member of this elite team of engineering professionals, you will develop solutions through high-speed serial channel analysis, power domain analysis, and 1st level chip packaging integration methodologies that enable hardware in IBM Mainframe and Quantum systems. Additionally, members of this department partner with IBM Research on Custom Chip/Wafer Scale Integration and Quantum Cryogenic hardware development. Team members of this department impact IBM’s diverse product portfolio through involvement in high-level design support, pre-production analysis, lab validation, and model-to-hardware correlation of early user hardware.

Qualified candidates will have excellent interpersonal, communications, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills paired with introductory knowledge of Signal and Power Integrity and 1st Level Chip Packaging design processes. Additional recommended skills include experience with signal and power integrity software such as ANSYS and Cadence tools suites and PCB design software. A background in electrical engineering, transmission line theory, digital signal processing, radio frequency design, and packaging and PCB materials/processes is helpful.

Your role and responsibilities

Perform strategic analysis on pre-production hardware designs utilizing commercially available and internally developed electromagnetic modelling tool suites, scripting and transient simulation methodologies to validate and improve the performance of innovative high-performance high-quality future designs supporting IBM business goals focused on the Quantum brand.
Develop and execute laboratory verification/characterization on early user hardware, enabling model-to-hardware correlation to add value to future hardware designs.
Collaborate with cross-site/cross-geo teams and leadership to establish and refine strategy for tackling aggressive product goals and schedules.
Continuously innovating design and development processes with the department and utilizing Agile best practices.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics
Work experience in Microprocessor, ASIC, Signal and Power Integrity, 1st Level Chip Packaging, or Hardware Development environment
Demonstrated experience in technical execution
Demonstrated excellence in communication skills
Eagerness to learn, demonstrating a growth mindset
Ability to proactively solve problems independently and in a team environment

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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