Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs

Lead SSD hardware development across the product lifecycle: architecture, high-speed SI/PI analysis, PCB/schematic design, lab validation and debugging, manufacturing readiness, cross-functional integration, and mentorship. Apply AI-enabled tools to accelerate validation, automation, and debugging workflows.

Lead failure analysis and root-cause corrective actions for networking hardware issues from field and factory sources. Analyze quality metrics, debug complex board- and system-level hardware, review new-product test reports, and drive quality improvements, change management, and multisourcing activities. Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, operations, customer support, vendors, and customers. Provide technical leadership, document lessons learned, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead the design, integration, testing, and troubleshooting of high-speed digital circuit cards and electronic systems for radar, electronic warfare, and sensing prototypes. Responsibilities include architecture, interface and clocking definition, signal and power integrity analysis, simulation, documentation, supplier and government interaction, performance validation, and mentoring junior engineers. The role leads small multidisciplinary teams and supports field-deployable prototype development.

Leads organization-wide power hardware architecture and technology roadmaps. Designs and validates board-mount and front-end power systems from architecture through manufacturing release. Evaluates high-voltage and liquid-cooled power technologies, oversees schematic design, simulation, PCB layout, testing, reliability, and standards compliance. Drives innovation, standardization, quality improvements, and integration across platforms. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, collaborates with development partners, and influences business-unit and executive decisions.

Leads organization-wide power hardware architecture and technology roadmaps for networking and data center products. Designs and validates board-mount and front-end power systems from architecture through manufacturing release. Evaluates high-voltage and liquid-cooled power technologies, drives standardization and continuous improvement, and provides technical leadership, mentoring, and innovation. Requires expertise in electrical design, simulation, PCB layout, power CAD tools, hardware testing, and communication interfaces.

Leads end-to-end design and production of high-performance networking hardware, including dense, high-power PCBs, 100G/200G signaling, FPGA solutions, SI/PI analysis, and liquid-cooled scale-up systems. Owns architecture, schematics, layout, bring-up, validation, qualification, and manufacturing collaboration while coordinating electrical, firmware, software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams.

Lead end-to-end hardware design for next-generation networking systems, from architecture and schematics through PCB layout, bring-up, validation, qualification, and production. Design high-speed, high-power, dense circuit boards with 100G/200G interfaces, FPGA solutions, and liquid-cooled architectures. Drive signal and power integrity analysis while collaborating across firmware, software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and fields advanced RF hardware systems for defense applications. Responsibilities include defining requirements, selecting RF components, performing link-budget and related analyses, developing test plans, supporting assembly and integration, and analyzing test data. The engineer collaborates with multidisciplinary teams on radar, electronic warfare, communications, and potentially airborne systems throughout the development lifecycle.

Designs, develops, integrates, and qualifies electronic test hardware for aerospace products, including circuit card assemblies, printed board assemblies, subassemblies, and line replaceable units. Defines digital, analog, power, FPGA, and mixed-signal test architectures; supports PCB layout, board bring-up, validation, ATE integration, troubleshooting, and production deployment. Leads test hardware efforts across concurrent programs, drives design-for-testability, supports root-cause investigations, and mentors junior engineers.

Designs and prototypes RF hardware and analog/mixed-signal systems for hardware-in-the-loop, digital twin, and surrogate platforms. Characterizes and debugs complex electronic systems using laboratory test equipment, develops automated acquisition and control platforms, leads customer and internal test events, and represents hardware expertise on interdisciplinary teams. The role also supports technical proposals, design reviews, documentation, cost estimates, scheduling, and mentorship of junior engineers.

Designs and develops digital circuit and unit hardware for aerospace applications, including requirements, architecture, modeling, analysis, testing, verification, and production support. Leads technical reviews, supplier management recommendations, performance tracking, lifecycle engineering support, and future product research. The role requires close collaboration across satellite electronics teams and is fully onsite in El Segundo, California.

Designs and sustains avionics laboratory hardware, test articles, interfaces, instrumentation, and related systems. Responsibilities include hardware architecture, component selection, mechanical and electrical design, test procedure development, systems verification, troubleshooting, calibration, data analysis, configuration control, and technical documentation. The engineer supports program milestones, hardware reviews, test reporting, and cross-functional engineering activities for aerospace programs.

Leads architecture, design, testing, verification, integration, and production transition for high-reliability digital circuit cards and modules. Responsibilities include FPGA and microprocessor circuit design, schematic and layout capture, signal integrity analysis, environmental testing, troubleshooting, documentation, defect resolution, customer and supplier coordination, and mentoring junior engineers.

Leads multidisciplinary electrical, mechanical, optical, drafting, and firmware engineering teams developing EO/IR electro-mechanical hardware for defense applications. Owns technical execution, cost, schedules, budgets, productivity metrics, design processes, quality, reliability, manufacturability, and customer delivery. Supports proposals and cost estimates while guiding product development for harsh environmental conditions. Requires extensive engineering leadership, hardware development experience, and collaboration with customers, suppliers, program engineers, and business leaders.

Develops and executes system- and board-level validation strategies for networking hardware. Responsibilities include designing test environments, conducting EDVT and HALT, debugging prototypes, performing bench repairs, evaluating test equipment, collaborating with ODM and cross-functional teams, documenting results, communicating risks, and ensuring product readiness for manufacturing release.

Designs, develops, tests, and supports hardware and firmware security technologies across Cisco products. Responsibilities include HDL design and verification, board bring-up and lab debugging, hardware architecture reviews, security solution deployment, proof-of-concept development, documentation, scripting, threat evaluation, and advising product teams on embedded hardware security. Requires collaboration across concurrent initiatives and ongoing investigation of evolving security technologies.

Designs, integrates, tests, troubleshoots, and transitions complex high-speed digital circuit cards and electronic modules into production. Leads verification and integration activities, drives defect resolution and corrective actions, improves product and test processes, creates technical documentation, interfaces with customers and suppliers, and mentors engineers and technicians. Requires strong digital hardware design, analysis, communication, and technical leadership skills in a defense engineering environment.

Leads advanced aerospace hardware design from concept through production for next-generation Head-Up Display systems. Responsibilities include schematic capture, PCB design support, hardware validation, troubleshooting, debugging, root-cause analysis, design verification, regulatory compliance, and collaboration with software and systems engineering teams. Provides technical leadership and mentorship while ensuring products meet customer, aerospace, and export-control requirements.

Designs and develops RF, high-speed digital, and mixed-signal hardware, including schematics, PCB layouts, testing, verification, manufacturing support, and technical documentation. Supports design reviews, production planning, new product introduction, and full-rate production while following quality and revision-control processes. The role contributes to defense and intelligence signal-processing and geolocation systems and requires eligibility for a TS/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Lead the selection, characterization, calibration, qualification, and integration of navigation sensor hardware for launch vehicles and spacecraft. Evaluate accelerometers, gyroscopes, IMUs, and GNSS receivers; define requirements; develop calibration and test methods; oversee environmental qualification and acceptance testing; resolve supplier and hardware issues; and coordinate avionics, manufacturing, RF, and navigation software integration.

Lead the architecture, design, validation, integration, and lifecycle support of digital, analog, mixed-signal, RF, and power-electronics hardware for aerospace Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance systems. Develop specifications, schematics, simulations, PCB guidance, and verification strategies while ensuring EMI/EMC, safety, reliability, certification, and DO-160/DO-254 compliance. Diagnose complex hardware issues, support production and sustainment, collaborate across engineering and manufacturing teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Designs and supports high-speed digital circuit cards and complex electronic modules through development, testing, integration, troubleshooting, verification, and production transition. The role drives defect resolution, root-cause corrective actions, design and test improvements, technical documentation, and collaboration across engineering, operations, quality, technicians, and manufacturing teams.

Drive hardware cost-reduction initiatives through product redesign, BOM optimization, component rationalization, and production-process improvements. Support product lifecycle management, engineering changes, obsolescence transitions, hardware testing, and validation. Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and collaborate with R&D, offering management, operations, and supply-chain stakeholders to deliver reliable, competitive building automation products.

Designs and delivers hardware cost-reduction initiatives through product redesign, BOM optimization, component rationalization, and process improvements. Manages engineering changes, product obsolescence, lifecycle transitions, testing, and validation. Provides technical mentorship and collaborates with R&D, offering management, operations, and supply chain teams to deliver reliable, compliant, and cost-effective building automation products.

Leads architecture, design, integration, verification, validation, and lifecycle support for complex embedded hardware systems. Oversees analog and digital circuitry, microprocessors, microcontrollers, communication interfaces, and power electronics. Defines requirements and verification plans, leads design reviews and risk assessments, ensures EMC and regulatory compliance, and resolves technical issues. Collaborates cross-functionally to optimize performance, reliability, manufacturability, schedule, and cost while mentoring engineers and advancing engineering processes.