Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs

Serves as the senior hardware expert for autonomous systems, designing and integrating sensors, compute, storage, controls, wiring, and embedded components. Supports hardware-software integration, system safety, certification, deployment, testing, and field operations. Develops hardware solutions for autonomous ground vehicles, performs electrical debugging, creates test procedures and verification software, and ensures designs meet architecture and program requirements. The role also provides technical leadership for FPGA, wiring harness, autonomy platform, and long-duration field-test activities.

Provides hands-on hardware engineering, maintenance, troubleshooting, testing, and technical direction for large-scale RF communication and SATCOM systems. Responsibilities include fault isolation, corrective and preventive maintenance, discrepancy resolution, procedure development, training, data collection, recovery planning, and customer briefings. The role supports 24x7 operations at an OCONUS site, requires flexible on-call scheduling, and involves collaboration with contractors, customers, and onsite hardware and systems engineers.

Provides hands-on hardware engineering, operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, and technical direction for large-scale RF and SATCOM communication systems. Responsibilities include fault isolation, preventative and corrective maintenance, hardware replacement and testing, discrepancy resolution, procedure development, training, data collection, recovery planning, and customer briefings. The role supports complex real-time systems at an overseas site, requires flexible on-call scheduling, and involves coordination with customers, contractors, and onsite hardware engineers.

Provides technical and programmatic leadership for radar hardware design and support teams. Leads architecture, trade studies, hardware integration, technical analysis, quality, common-hardware strategies, customer liaison activities, proposals, and program execution. Designs and supports computing hardware and electrical components, coordinates engineering documentation, evaluates vendors, and analyzes test reports. Requires collaboration across functional teams and the ability to balance technical, cost, and schedule objectives.

Lead end-to-end hardware development for high-performance firewall appliances, including architecture, circuit design, schematics, PCB layout, validation, troubleshooting, and production transition. Own signal and power integrity, collaborate with software, BIOS, and manufacturing teams, drive design quality and process improvements, integrate AI-enabled engineering tools, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires expertise in complex board design, high-speed interfaces, FPGA/SoC architectures, and hardware verification.

Leads end-to-end development of advanced phased-array radar and AESA systems from R&D through deployment. Provides system architecture, technical leadership, requirements development, trade studies, modeling, simulation, integration, testing, risk mitigation, and customer engagement. Leads multidisciplinary engineering teams, drives technical roadmaps and innovation, supports proposals, publishes technical work, and ensures compliance with military standards and customer requirements.

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.

Develop and integrate propulsion Hardware-in-the-Loop simulators, including ECU electrical interfaces, wiring harnesses, load boxes, and simulator hardware. Collaborate with software, controls, calibration, systems, plant modeling, and ECU teams to define requirements, configure vehicle simulations, troubleshoot integration issues, and commission HIL test properties. Evaluate HIL technologies, support testing and validation, conduct benchmarking, and improve processes, methods, and tools across global teams.

Design, manufacture, integrate, and validate autonomous hardware systems for heavy construction equipment. Responsibilities include component architecture, camera and optics design, vendor and manufacturing coordination, safety-focused verification and validation, hardware testing, and development of reusable sensor-data analysis and test-automation software. The hybrid role requires San Francisco office attendance at least three days weekly and up to 15% regional or national travel.

Designs and validates high-speed hardware boards for routing platforms from feasibility through mass production and customer support. Responsibilities include schematics, BOMs, prototype bring-up, hardware testing, debugging, manufacturing diagnostics, compliance support, component qualification, and cross-functional collaboration with software, PCB, signal integrity, power, thermal, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.

Designs and validates high-speed hardware across silicon, packages, boards, and PCBs. Performs PCIe Gen 6/7 characterization, signal and power integrity debugging, and precision measurements using VNAs, oscilloscopes, BERTs, and TDRs. Correlates laboratory measurements with HFSS, ADS, or Sigrity simulations, conducts root-cause analysis, and develops Python or MATLAB automation scripts. The role is onsite in Milpitas, California, and supports product introduction and high-volume production.

Designs, integrates, upgrades, and sustains hardware platforms, data acquisition systems, low-voltage controls, PLCs, embedded systems, and custom electronic assemblies supporting NASA mission operations. Responsibilities include circuit and schematic design, hardware troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, vendor coordination, documentation, BOM management, network and compute integration, fabrication oversight, and engineering support during mission-critical operations.

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 and develops advanced hardware for Modular Avionics Unit subassemblies in aerospace applications. Responsibilities include product engineering, cross-functional project execution, quality compliance, hardware performance improvement, schematic and PCB development, testing, validation, configuration management, and engineering change processes. The role requires strong hardware design expertise and familiarity with embedded systems, with a focus on reliable avionics products.

Design, develop, and validate embedded control boards for power conversion and power electronics systems. Responsibilities include control architecture, sensing circuits, ADC signal chains, mixed-signal PCB design, schematic and layout review, board bring-up, laboratory testing, troubleshooting, and integration with firmware, controls, sensors, gate drivers, and power stages.

Architect, source, build, integrate, characterize, and validate hardware systems for autonomous heavy machinery. The role defines hardware architecture, leads external vendor relationships and development programs, collaborates across engineering and safety teams, and ensures reliable performance in rugged environments. Responsibilities include autonomy sensing, compute, HMI, connectivity, machine-control interfaces, power and cooling, hardware testing, data analysis, and test automation using Python, C++, C, or Rust.

Designs, develops, aligns, integrates, and tests optical systems for airborne, space-based, defense, intelligence, scientific, and commercial applications. Works hands-on with optical hardware, validates components, supports optical subsystem development, participates in design reviews, and contributes to proposals, RFIs, and white papers. The role requires collaboration across engineering teams and may involve laboratory, cleanroom, production, and field environments.

Designs, develops, aligns, integrates, and tests optical systems and subsystems for airborne, space-based, defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. The role involves hands-on optical hardware work, component procurement and validation, analytical engineering, design reviews, proposal support, and technology development. Candidates will collaborate cross-functionally in laboratory, cleanroom, production, and office environments while supporting advanced optical programs.

Design, develop, align, integrate, and test optical systems for airborne and space-based applications. Work hands-on with optical hardware, validate components, support subsystem development, participate in design reviews, and contribute to proposals, RFIs, and white papers. The role requires collaboration across engineering teams and may involve laboratory, production floor, cleanroom, and remote research environments.

Designs, tests, and analyzes custom high-speed digital electronics for the Terran R launch vehicle. Owns hardware through the full lifecycle, including concept design, board bring-up, verification, qualification, manufacturing, integration, and vehicle operations. Collaborates with mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, propulsion, GNC, and other teams to deliver reliable avionics hardware on schedule.

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.