Job#: 3038631

Job Description:

Gaming Hardware Design Engineer (contract)

ONSITE - Redmond, WA

Pay Rate / Range: $54-$59 

Job Overview

Looking for a Gaming Hardware Design Engineer to support a team at our Fortune 50 client. The purpose of this team specifically focuses on wireless (radio) testing, meaning they validate: Radio connections, Wireless performance and behavior of devices

This role will contribute to with module and system-level performance testing, focused on how multiple radios behave at once — e.g., BT audio + controllers/HID + WiFi together in congested RF environment. Core skills are RF (s-parameters, spectrum analyzers, etc.) plus working with sniffers, log files, scripts, and automated systems via Python or test-equipment scripts. For system-level testing, the main areas are rate-vs-range (RvR) throughput characterization, interoperability testing across routers and access points, Miracast/wireless display validation, and long-duration stability and reconnect testing. Work includes provisioning and configuring devices with apps and drivers, running these scenarios with tools like iPerf, and debugging issues through Windows logs and packet captures. We also have an off-campus test house location you may need to access for testing.

Wireless coexistence and Bluetooth

• Create test plans involving Bluetooth, Wifi, and wireless accessories for gaming scenarios to design relevant and realistic contention scenarios based on system architecture and customer use cases

• Understand the interaction of latency, QoS, audio, codecs, coexistence schemes (frequency division, time division, packet switching) to ensure user scenarios involving heterogenous wireless device scenarios of first- and third-party devices work, and identify areas needing improvement

• Understand antenna isolation and its relationship to coexistence, and design tests that take into account protocol layer, physical layer, and antenna interactions between radios

• Perform Bluetooth pairing, profile configuration, sniffing, and spectral and time domain analysis

• Work with software engineers and radio chipset vendors to debug and experiment

System level work

• Run system-level tests (throughput, etc) in a Windows environment using RF lab tools

• Familiarity with networking, configuring windows OS, iperf, powershell

• Configure Windows DUTs, load apps, adjust device settings, and test under different conditions

• Test using reverberation chambers, shielded rooms, and open test environments

• Use of wireless sniffers such as Ellisys, Omnipeek, or Wireshark

Candidate Requirements

> Hands-on experience with RF equipment, cables, connectors, and PCBs

> Vector signal analyzers, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, vector signal generators, etc

> Protocol testers such as CMW, CMX, Anritsu

> Familiarity with sniffers such as Ellisys, Omnipeek, Wireshark, Litepoint IQsniffer

> Understanding of automated RF test systems, running scripts, parsing and plotting results

> Python, powershell, Excel macros, batch scripts

> Wifi 7 APs, routers, firewalls, packet sniffers

BSEE or related experience desired

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