Waqas Ali

Building Hardware for Super-intelligence!

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Member of Technical Staff, Platform Engineering at Etched
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    • Own and lead the end-to-end High-Speed I/O strategy for the platform, spanning SerDes selection, ASIC integration, board and system design, and large-scale deployment of PCIe, Ethernet C2C fabrics. • Set technical direction for signal integrity and HSIO validation, establishing design standards, validation methodology, and quality bars from silicon through system. • Lead HSIO bring-up and post-silicon validation, guiding teams from first silicon to production readiness through structured margining, stress, and workload-driven validation. • Drive cross-functional execution across ASIC, board, firmware, and system teams, aligning decisions early to de-risk performance, scalability, and schedule. • Influence platform architecture and ecosystem choices, shaping vendor selection, technology adoption, and long-term HSIO roadmap.

  • Intel Corporation (San Francisco Bay Area)
    • Staff Engineer
      Oct 2021 - Sep 2025 · 4 yrs

    • Senior Validation Engineer
      Apr 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Product Development Engineer
      May 2016 - Apr 2019 · 3 yrs

      FAFI | FIB | pFA | CAD | Yield | Test

  • Graduate Intern at Intel Corporation
    Jun 2015 - Jan 2016 · 8 mos

  • University of Texas at Arlington (4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
      Sep 2010 - May 2015 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    • Graduate Research Assistant
      Sep 2010 - May 2015 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • System Engineer at Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO)
    Sep 2007 - Aug 2010 · 3 yrs

    • Performed end-to-end RF link budget analysis for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite payloads, accounting for path loss, noise figure, gain, and system margins. • Designed and analyzed RF filtering and Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) stages, optimizing signal integrity, noise performance, and interference rejection under spaceborne constraints.