Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs

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.

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.

Designs, develops, validates, and sustains high-performance electronic products. Owns end-to-end electrical hardware development, including BOM creation, vendor coordination, circuit and board design, validation, customer trials, field issues, and product sustaining. Collaborates with hardware, ASIC, signal, mechanical, thermal, diagnostics, packaging, manufacturing, and partner engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Designs and delivers ultra-high-performance electronic products through complete hardware ownership, including BOM creation, circuit and board design, development, validation, manufacturing support, customer trials, field issue resolution, and product sustaining. Collaborates with hardware, ASIC, signal, mechanical, thermal, diagnostic, packaging, manufacturing, and partner engineering teams. The role focuses on high-powered SoCs, advanced packaging, 1kW+ PCB power and thermal challenges, and 112G+ SerDes signaling.

Lead hands-on hardware development across concept, prototyping, validation, manufacturing, and field performance. Responsibilities include PCB lifecycle ownership, ODM design review, regulatory testing, manufacturing coordination, vendor and component management, troubleshooting, test fixture support, technical documentation, and mentoring engineers. The role collaborates cross-functionally with product, software, QA, operations, and customer success teams while shaping the technical direction of agricultural sensing products.

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 and integrates analog, power, digital, RF, and test hardware, including consoles, interface panels, cabling, schematics, and power or cooling controls. Performs hardware-software integration, requirements verification, anomaly investigation, troubleshooting, and laboratory testing. Supports design-to-cost, scope, and schedule objectives while collaborating across engineering disciplines. The role is fully onsite in Waynesboro, Virginia, requires U.S. citizenship, and requires obtaining and maintaining a Secret clearance and Special Program Access.

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.

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.

Own and improve formal equivalency CAD flows for Microsoft silicon programs, including RTL-to-netlist, ECO, netlist-to-netlist, and UPF-aware low-power verification. Develop Tcl and Python automation, debug production flows, qualify Synopsys and Cadence tool releases, resolve vendor issues, support tapeout closure, improve runtime and reliability, and mentor other engineers.

Leads AI-enabled hardware and infrastructure debugging for hyperscale Azure datacenters. Designs agentic workflows, diagnostics, telemetry, automation, and validation systems to improve fault isolation, root-cause analysis, reliability, remediation, and fleet readiness. Coordinates cross-functional investigations across hardware, firmware, software, platform, and datacenter systems while establishing safe, governed human-in-the-loop execution models and closed-loop learning capabilities.

Lead hardware and systems engineering for advanced processing systems, from requirements derivation through integration, testing, and debug. Provide technical guidance, coordinate card and unit-level integration, ensure process compliance and deliverable quality, manage customer interfaces, and lead diverse Integrated Project Teams. Apply model-based engineering, test automation, Agile, and DevSecOps practices while meeting cost and schedule commitments.

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.

Leads storage hardware qualification and validation for Microsoft Azure data centers. Responsibilities include developing qualification frameworks, reliability and telemetry strategies, debugging complex hardware, firmware, operating system, driver, and cloud-service issues, and coordinating with OEMs, ODMs, and silicon partners. The role drives production readiness, root-cause investigations, automation, technical reviews, and continuous process improvement while providing technical leadership to team members.

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.

Lead development and validation of optical film stacks and light-management technologies for automotive LCD and OLED displays. Evaluate films, polarizers, coatings, and bonding technologies; perform optical simulations and measurements; analyze brightness, contrast, glare, reflections, uniformity, and related performance data; collaborate with suppliers and display manufacturers; and mature validated optical solutions for production vehicle display programs.

Develop and mature next-generation OLED panel technologies for automotive displays. Responsibilities include evaluating pixel and tandem stack architectures, defining technology requirements, validating TCON and driver IC specifications, conducting optical simulations and bench testing, leading supplier testing under automotive conditions, analyzing panel performance data, resolving defects such as Mura and burn-in, and transferring production-ready technologies to Sourcing.

Leads development and maturation of next-generation automotive LCD panel technologies, including TFT backplanes, pixel structures, driver electronics, and halo mitigation. Evaluates emerging architectures, defines technical requirements, collaborates with display and semiconductor suppliers, conducts proof-of-concept builds and environmental validation, analyzes performance data, resolves panel defects, and transfers mature technologies toward sourcing and production readiness.

Own the architecture, design, qualification, and deployment of GPU-based compute payloads for Blue Origin’s orbital data center constellation. Responsibilities include GPU and component selection, compute module board and mechanical design, high-speed interconnect and fabric architecture, thermal integration, radiation and environmental qualification, EMI/EMC compliance, and collaboration with software and systems teams for AI/HPC workloads.

Own the electrical design and lifecycle of rugged hardware for autonomous heavy machinery. Responsibilities include designing sensor racks and compute housings, creating schematics, bills of materials, and PCBs, performing hardware bring-up, ensuring FCC compliance, integrating cameras, LiDAR, GNSS, Jetson compute, drive-by-wire actuators, CAN/J1939 networks, and supporting manufacturing, reliability, cost reduction, and field revisions. The role is primarily on-site with frequent field travel and occasional weekend shop work.

Designs, integrates, tests, and troubleshoots hardware for shipboard machinery controls and automation systems. Responsibilities include developing control-system architectures, schematics, interfaces, requirements, verification methods, and technical artifacts; supporting lab and shipboard integration; performing root-cause analysis and qualification testing; and coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers. The role requires expertise in controllers, I/O, sensors, actuators, communications, power distribution, and complex electromechanical systems.