Seattle’s reputation as a software town can obscure the amount of physical engineering happening in and around it. Cloud providers, aerospace manufacturers, satellite builders and tech powerhouses all maintain hardware engineering teams in the region, and many of them are hiring right now for roles that span server infrastructure, chip and board design, spacecraft systems and aircraft electronics.
We’ve rounded up companies hiring hardware engineers in Seattle and the surrounding area. The work ranges from liquid cooling and GPU troubleshooting in data centers to PCB layout for satellite buses and sustaining engineering for networking products, giving jobseekers a sense of how varied hardware careers look across industries that converge on this bustling metro area.
Companies Hiring Hardware Engineers in Seattle
- CoreWeave
- DigitalOcean
- Boeing
- CrowdStrike
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Microsoft
- Morgan Stanley
- SpaceX
- BlackSky
Companies Hiring Hardware Engineers in Seattle
CoreWeave is a cloud infrastructure provider built around large-scale NVIDIA GPU clusters, with a Seattle-area presence in Bellevue, Washington where its Hardware Engineering team works. The team designs, deploys and troubleshoots server hardware across its data centers, including GPU and PCIe systems, liquid cooling infrastructure for high-density platforms, and firmware validation and failure analysis for fleets that scale to tens of thousands of GPUs. Open roles on this team span hardware engineers focused on liquid cooling, server infrastructure and GPU troubleshooting, working with vendors on component qualification and automating hardware lifecycle management through monitoring and telemetry tools as CoreWeave expands its data center footprint to support AI training and inference workloads.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, headquartered in Houston, Texas, designs servers, storage and networking hardware that run data centers, hybrid cloud and AI infrastructure. Its 2025 acquisition of Juniper Networks folded a full networking hardware stack into HPE, spanning silicon, switches and routers, and doubled the size of its networking business. In Seattle, HPE hires for a Hardware Engineer role within its Hardware Sustaining group, where engineers investigate and resolve critical hardware issues on Juniper’s networking products, document root causes and feed quality improvements into the next generation of designs. The position calls for board- and system-level hardware design, debug and testing experience in electrical, electronics or computer engineering.
Microsoft, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, designs custom silicon and systems for its Azure cloud infrastructure, including the Azure Cobalt CPU and Azure Maia AI accelerator, which power workloads behind products like Copilot. Its hardware engineering teams in the Seattle area work across chip architecture, board and system validation, firmware and networking hardware, with open roles spanning memory hardware engineering, network switch design for Azure AI infrastructure, and FPGA-based SmartNIC development for cloud networking acceleration. Engineers on these teams test chips under real datacenter conditions, co-design racks and cooling systems alongside silicon, and build the validation frameworks and drivers that bring Microsoft’s in-house accelerators from prototype to production deployment at Azure scale.
CrowdStrike builds the Falcon platform, a cloud-native cybersecurity system that protects endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data for enterprise customers, with a lightweight sensor architecture at its core. In the Seattle area, where it maintains an office in Kirkland, its Hardware Development and Engineering team validates server hardware that underpins this platform, testing power, thermal performance, firmware and new platform designs such as PCIe Gen6 components, storage media and GPUs. Hardware engineers on this team work alongside platform architects to build test automation frameworks, coordinate with ODM and OEM partners on server integration, and collaborate with software teams on BIOS, kernel and firmware optimization to keep CrowdStrike’s security infrastructure reliable at scale.
BlackSky is a space-based intelligence company that operates a low earth orbit satellite constellation and the BlackSky Spectra software platform, delivering high-frequency imagery and AI-driven analytics to government and commercial customers. The company designs and builds its satellites through BlackSky Satellite Systems, formerly LeoStella, a wholly owned subsidiary based in Tukwila, Washington, just south of Seattle. Its hardware engineering teams in the Seattle area work on spacecraft electrical, mechanical and embedded systems, with current openings including a staff HDL hardware engineer and mechanical engineers in Tukwila alongside embedded and flight software engineering roles in Seattle supporting its Gen-3 satellite production.
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York that provides investment banking, wealth management and trading services. Its technology division builds and maintains the hardware infrastructure behind the firm’s electronic trading and data center operations, with engineers working on server hardware, GPU-based systems and infrastructure automation that keep trading platforms running reliably. Hardware engineering teams troubleshoot and optimize physical infrastructure, evaluate components such as processors and networking gear for enterprise use, and coordinate with vendors on installations, upgrades and lifecycle management. The firm posts hardware engineering openings across multiple United States locations, including Seattle, supporting its broader technology operations.
Boeing designs and manufactures commercial airplanes and defense systems, with major engineering and production operations across the Puget Sound region, including Everett and Renton. Hardware engineers on its teams develop electrical and electronic systems for aircraft, working closely with customers on avionics and other physical components that go into commercial and military platforms. Some roles focus on experimental hardware for propulsion applications, giving engineers exposure to both established aircraft programs and new technology development. Open hardware engineering positions in the Seattle area span these production and experimental tracks, reflecting the breadth of physical systems — from aircraft wiring to propulsion test hardware — that the company’s engineering organization builds and supports.
SpaceX builds and operates Starlink, its satellite internet constellation, from a Redmond, Washington manufacturing campus near Seattle that produces satellite buses, phased-array antennas, propulsion systems, solar arrays and inter-satellite lasers. Open hardware engineering roles in the Seattle area include electrical hardware engineers working on Starlink satellites, where engineers own designs from schematic capture and PCB layout through prototyping, testing, manufacturing and on-orbit performance. Other listed positions cover satellite mechanical and electromechanical hardware, electric propulsion systems and PCBA manufacturing processes. SpaceX also runs employee shuttles between select Seattle locations and its Redmond facility.
DigitalOcean operates a cloud computing platform running tens of thousands of company-owned servers deployed across 15 leased colocation data centers worldwide, utilizing air-cooled and high-density liquid-cooled systems alongside NVIDIA GPU fleets (including H100 and A100 systems) to support AI and machine learning workloads. Its hardware engineering teams lead server platform qualification, vendor compliance, firmware integration, and automation using Chef, Ansible, Redfish, and IPMI across both x86 (Intel, AMD) and non-x86 (Arm) systems at scale. Hardware engineering opportunities focus on architecting liquid-cooled server solutions and scaling physical compute capacity for expanding AI infrastructure demands.
