Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs

As a Senior Hardware Engineer, you will design complex systems, lead technical projects, mentor engineers, and participate in technical meetings while ensuring product robustness and compliance with specifications.

This role involves developing and executing hardware testing plans and procedures, analyzing test results, and maintaining test equipment for validation in the automotive sector.

Reviews analog and digital schematics, identifies power and signal integrity risks, performs board bring-up and prototype validation, and debugs hardware issues in a laboratory environment. Conducts electrical measurements, analyzes waveforms, executes validation procedures, performs root-cause analysis, and recommends corrective actions. Documents schematic reviews and lab findings while collaborating with design teams to improve hardware reliability, manufacturability, and testability.

Develop embedded automotive diagnostic products, including PC boards, firmware, vehicle communication systems, and battery management hardware. Design electronic circuits and implement automotive protocols, while building validation tests, test systems, and product tools using C, C++, and C#. Debug and improve hardware, firmware, and software quality through testing and code reviews. Collaborate with technology teams and customers to resolve product issues and enhance diagnostic solutions.

Designs high-power, high-density Ethernet switching hardware from functional specifications through mass production. Responsibilities include component qualification, complex schematic capture, high-speed PCB design, signal and power integrity analysis, PCB fabrication specifications, prototype bring-up, system debugging, contract manufacturer collaboration, manufacturing training, and mentoring engineers. The role focuses on 100G/200G PAM4 networking products, advanced multilayer boards, embedded systems, high-current power delivery, and FPGA-based system simulation.

Leads architecture, roadmap, design reviews, validation, bring-up, diagnostics, and failure analysis for enterprise and cloud-scale storage hardware. Establishes server, rack-scale power and thermal strategies, validation frameworks, automated testing, and reliability standards. Coordinates hardware, firmware, software, executive, and OEM/ODM/JDM teams while mentoring engineers and driving complex system-level issue resolution.

The hardware engineer will architect FPGA applications, integrate software, conduct testing, and support deployed applications in high frequency trading.

Design complex digital boards using high-end SoC FPGAs, high-speed interfaces, microprocessors, and power supplies. Perform signal and power integrity analysis using simulation tools, support EMC certification, and apply military and space hardware design experience. The role is hybrid in San Diego and offered on a contract-to-potential-permanent basis.

Lead design, validation, and deployment of advanced hardware test systems for V-BAT. Architect PCBs and test interfaces for power electronics, RF, and communications; develop Python automated test sequences; design custom test fixtures and integrate PLCs, relays, and harnessing. Drive DFT-focused reviews, perform HASS/ESS/HALT testing, and mentor junior engineers to improve hardware reliability in aerospace environments.

Lead electronic hardware design and prototype development across cross-functional teams. Design schematics and PCBs, perform hardware bring-up, validation and pre-compliance testing, advise customers onsite, estimate project scope, and mentor engineers while shaping electronics strategy from concept to launch.

Define and execute board- and system-level validation strategies and test plans. Perform hands-on bring-up, functional and electrical characterization, automated test development, debugging, root-cause analysis, and collaborate with ODMs and manufacturing to qualify products for mass production. Document results and present readiness assessments to stakeholders.

Designs high-speed Ethernet switching hardware from concept through production. Responsibilities include specifications, component selection, schematics, PCB architecture, signal and power integrity, FPGA development, prototype bring-up, debugging, manufacturing coordination, DFM, validation, and contract manufacturer training. The role also guides engineers and mentors junior team members while collaborating with software, mechanical, thermal, test, manufacturing, and product teams.

Designs and validates high-speed analog and mixed-signal circuitry for data center connectivity applications. Responsibilities include developing novel CMOS circuit techniques, optimizing speed, power, and area, creating circuit models, performing simulation and custom layout, developing test plans, and characterizing and debugging designs for manufacturability. The role also requires analyzing experimental results, selecting reliable components, and understanding broadband communication SoC architectures.

Design and maintain embedded hardware for intelligent control and monitoring systems, including analog, digital, mixed-signal circuits, PCBs, power systems, sensors, and industrial communications. Support firmware development, system integration, testing, regulatory compliance, manufacturing, and field diagnostics. Translate customer and market needs into product specifications, contribute to new product development, and collaborate with global engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers. Travel domestically and internationally approximately 10–20%.

Own spacecraft and constellation hardware reliability strategies, requirements, models, allocations, and testing programs. Lead HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing, reliability growth, statistical modeling, root-cause investigations, FRACAS, and corrective actions. Integrate test and flight telemetry data into reliability predictions, flow down requirements, advise leadership on risk trade-offs, and mentor reliability engineers. Partner with design, systems, test, and manufacturing teams to improve robustness and support high-volume satellite production.

Design, approve, and support ATE/SLT interface hardware for IC final and system-level testing. Lead fixture/hardware solutions from design through manufacturing, perform DOE, drive socket/thermal qualifications, troubleshoot and repair sockets, load boards, and thermal plungers, provide lab support (including weekends), and coordinate cross-functional projects and improvements for product launch and high-volume manufacturing.

Leads hardware design and development for optical and RF transceiver modules, including analog and digital design, simulation, PCB layout, verification testing, troubleshooting, and hardware architecture. Documents digital control requirements for firmware teams, coordinates development across engineering and manufacturing groups, supports customers and field personnel, and provides technical training. The role requires onsite laboratory testing with a hybrid option and limited travel between company sites.

The Senior Digital Hardware Engineer designs and develops digital hardware systems for avionics and radio test equipment, utilizing EDA tools and high-speed buses.

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.

Own the end-to-end hardware safety strategy for automotive sensor systems, including cameras, LiDAR, radar, and IMUs. Define safety requirements, evaluate supplier architectures and documentation, perform FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, and FTA analyses, and guide safety-critical design decisions. Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, systems, validation, and supplier teams from concept through integration and verification. Produce safety cases, technical analyses, integration guidance, and user-facing documentation.

The Hardware Engineer will analyze, design, and develop analog and digital circuits, manage hardware projects, and prepare documentation for SEL's products supporting power systems.

The Hardware Engineer designs and develops custom hardware solutions for autonomous vehicles, oversees vendor operations, and ensures compliance with industry standards.

The Hardware Engineer will design, prototype, and document electronic components, work with QA, and support sales with technical assistance, focusing on life safety solutions.

Responsible for designing and verifying complex digital circuits, mentoring junior engineers, collaborating with other disciplines, and providing technical guidance.

As a Senior Hardware Systems Engineer, you will lead AI rack and cluster infrastructure designs, manage deployments, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize data center solutions.