Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Designs, installs, tests, maintains, and troubleshoots RF and SATCOM hardware across multiple frequency bands. Performs site surveys, antenna and rack installation, RF measurements, link-budget analysis, and anti-jamming activities. Produces engineering drawings, plans, test reports, and maintenance documentation. Leads inspection and maintenance teams, mentors personnel, supports remote deployments, and collaborates with cross-functional engineering and program teams. Requires worldwide travel of up to 15%.

Analyzes, designs, configures, installs, tests, maintains, and documents complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions. Responsibilities include site surveys, technical design packages, hardware acquisition specifications, network and equipment configuration, installation scheduling, troubleshooting guides, test reports, and training site personnel. Deployments may occur within CONUS and OCONUS locations.

Designs, develops, assembles, tests, and supports computer hardware and peripherals. Responsibilities include analyzing system requirements, evaluating hardware/software interfaces, building prototypes, verifying equipment, documenting configurations and test results, selecting materials, monitoring performance, and providing technical support, training, and implementation guidance. The role requires at least three years of directly related technical experience and is remote within the United States.

Lead end-to-end hardware development for next-generation communication modules, including schematics, PCB layouts, component libraries, prototypes, test fixtures, validation, compliance testing, and in-lab or field debugging. Collaborate with firmware, systems, and mechanical engineers, maintain design documentation and databases, lead design reviews, support field-failure investigations, mentor junior engineers, and improve design processes and tooling.

Design and develop wireless power transfer and energy-harvesting hardware for IoT and wearable devices. Apply power electronics, RF and electromagnetic theory to create ICs and circuits, integrate solutions into scalable systems, optimize energy efficiency, and drive sustainable innovation for large sensor networks.

Designs, integrates, deploys, tests, and sustains hardware-based Cross Domain Solutions and secure infrastructure for DoD and intelligence environments. Leads hardware architecture, rack design, lifecycle management, vulnerability analysis, technical documentation, procurement coordination, accreditation support, and field deployment. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, training, and guidance on secure, scalable, mission-critical computing environments.

Design, develop, test, and integrate FPGA-based solutions using VHDL and Xilinx tools. Responsibilities include digital logic implementation, place-and-route optimization, simulation, debugging, hardware reverse engineering, documentation, and field support. The role also integrates design tools and libraries, develops physical design procedures, leads complex projects, provides technical guidance, and directs other hardware design engineers. Collaboration with software, hardware, systems, customers, and vendors is required.

Designs, develops, integrates, and tests FPGA hardware and software processing components for RF communication and collection systems. Implements DSP algorithms in FPGA, performs RTL development, timing closure, resource optimization, and hardware-software integration with Linux, C, and C++ codebases. Leads technical design efforts, documents solutions, and supports mission-critical intelligence requirements.

Designs and develops hardware test boards and platforms for high-speed electro-optical device characterization in R&D and manufacturing environments. Performs laboratory testing, analog design and debugging, test-system development, hardware bring-up, and firmware development for microcontrollers. Supports System-on-Chip optical engine development and interfaces with vendors. Preferred experience includes power supply design, advanced PCB stack-ups, optical instrumentation, automated measurements, and coherent optical communications.

Tests, validates, and troubleshoots next-generation cloud server hardware for performance, power, reliability, and quality. Develops test scripts, documents results, identifies defects, recommends improvements, and resolves hardware issues across engineering and manufacturing environments. Requires hands-on embedded systems debugging, Linux and scripting experience, and knowledge of server architecture, firmware, operating systems, networking, storage, and hardware acceleration technologies.

Designs, integrates, certifies, and maintains electromechanical test fixtures and test software for complex electronic systems. Supports requirements definition, manufacturing, system integration, flight testing, factory deployment, troubleshooting, design reviews, and technical verification. The role requires mixed hardware and software development, RF and electronic test equipment expertise, and leadership of test efforts through validation and certification.

Develop and operate Akamai’s Linux-based cloud infrastructure, including bare-metal and virtual machine platforms, kernels, operating systems, and KVM/QEMU virtualization. Build software, automation, observability, and infrastructure enhancements at scale; troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues; collaborate across engineering and operations; mentor team members; and participate in on-call service restoration.

Designs and maintains high-speed digital hardware for Nokia Service Router products. Responsibilities include ultra-high-speed PCB circuit design, simulation, verification testing, board bring-up, laboratory debugging, and taking complex board designs from concept through production release. The role requires collaboration with engineering teams, ownership of hardware integrity, and practical use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and digital debugging tools.

Analyze complex hardware systems supporting SIGINT customer operations. Responsibilities include developing hardware requirements and specifications, designing system components, procuring and testing equipment, providing preventive and remedial maintenance, conducting site surveys, preparing engineering and installation documentation, configuring computers and network devices, supporting deployments, and resolving operational hardware issues. Level 1 engineers also develop installation schedules, train site personnel, and prepare technical design packages and site reports.

The role involves optimizing hardware support within a software stack for AI model deployment, collaborating with teams and hardware vendors to enhance performance and portability across platforms.

Designs, tests, simulates, verifies, and documents ASIC and FPGA hardware for signal-processing applications. Develops firmware and supports physical implementation using place-and-route tools and design libraries. Responsibilities include design analysis, security verification testing, hardware de-processing, tool and library integration, security evaluation documentation, VHDL review, full-scan testing, and security code evaluation. Level 4 engineers provide technical leadership and oversee other hardware design engineers.

Designs electrical control systems for conveyor and material-handling equipment, including power calculations, 480V and 120V schematics, I/O drawings, PLC and panel layouts, field-device layouts, and material specifications. Collaborates with customers, sales engineers, and project managers to define requirements. Inspects, tests, commissions, and troubleshoots motor control panels for compliance with design standards, codes, and project specifications.

Develop and maintain large Python systems and C/C++ software supporting national security missions. Use Bash and other scripting languages, analyze RF signals, and work with embedded hardware, STM32 microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi devices, digital logic, and hardware debugging tools. The role requires a Top Secret/SCI clearance with favorable polygraph, 15 years of relevant software engineering experience, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

The role manages system requirements and hardware design solutions using VHDL, focuses on national defense, and requires TS/SCI clearance.

Develop and own compute and GPU server platforms from architecture through global deployment. Responsibilities include schematic and layout reviews, design for manufacturability, new product introduction, board and system bring-up, validation, debugging, firmware and BIOS feature management, technology qualification, and vendor coordination. The role requires hands-on server architecture, board-level design, Linux and scripting expertise, platform validation, and five-day-per-week presence in the Cambridge office.

Pipeline hiring for hardware engineers at all experience levels. Work includes circuit board design, schematic capture, component selection and prototype bring-up, hardware debug/testing and failure analysis, integration with firmware/software teams, and design for manufacturability with production handoff.

Designs, tests, documents, and reverse-engineers integrated circuits, microelectronic components, ASICs, FPGAs, and related firmware for signal-processing applications. Supports hardware modification for government requirements, develops P&R design flows, integrates tools and libraries, and coordinates engineering work. Senior levels lead designs, mentor engineers, develop reverse-engineering procedures, and oversee component de-processing and firmware retrieval.

Lead design and development of complex DoD embedded hardware (SBC, FPGA, switch, I/O) in 3U/6U VPX and custom form factors. Drive high-speed mixed-signal PCB design, thermal/power solutions (including LFT), testing, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration to meet schedule-driven program requirements and improve product performance and reliability.

Provide hardware engineering support for SIGINT solutions: analyze and design hardware systems, perform procurement and acceptance testing, deploy and maintain equipment CONUS/OCONUS, conduct site surveys, prepare technical design packages and as-built drawings, train site personnel, and produce installation and test reports.

Lead R&D of electronic hardware for Battery Management Systems, driving PCB/EMC design, embedded systems and motor-control integration, board bring-up and troubleshooting, supplier collaboration, and cross-functional delivery for high-volume products while managing timelines and technical risk.