Top Hardware Engineer Jobs

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 analog and digital hardware circuits, creates system specifications, writes and executes test plans, evaluates results, and maintains technical documentation. Manages moderately complex hardware projects, coordinates with purchasing and manufacturing, and mentors engineers and technicians. Requires experience in circuit design, programmable logic, power supplies, or related areas, with strong communication and documentation skills.

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.

Designs and leads development of battery-powered, high-speed digital and RF circuit boards for next-generation radios. Responsibilities include defining requirements, circuit design and simulation, schematics and BOMs, PCB layout guidance, prototyping, DVT, testing, manufacturing support, and technical leadership across projects. The role also architects hardware subsystems, establishes engineering standards, resolves complex issues, mentors engineers, and coordinates with product management, mechanical engineering, subcontractors, and manufacturing.

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.

Work on designing, simulating, and prototyping ultra-low-power wearable and biomedical hardware. Support schematic capture, multilayer PCB layout, component selection, system integration, bring-up, validation, and testing for devices like smartglasses, rings, and watches while collaborating across design, product, and supply chain 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.

Executes system-level debugging and root-cause analysis for large-scale datacenter hardware. Leads collaboration across hardware, firmware, and software teams; develops scalable debug methodologies, validation strategies, test routines, and automation; recommends diagnostic technologies; reduces defects; and communicates technical progress using data. The role supports mission-critical cloud infrastructure and requires an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with SCI access and polygraph.

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.

Own board-level analog and RF hardware for chip-scale atomic clocks, including schematic design, PCB layout, simulation, bring-up, characterization, and production. Responsibilities include precision analog front ends, microwave synthesis, VCSEL drive, thermal control, noise optimization, test automation, DFM/DFT, and cross-functional integration with firmware, physics, photonics, and systems teams. Lead design standards, reviews, and mentoring while personally executing hands-on circuit and PCB development.

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.

Designs, develops, tests, and supports hardware systems for Space Force Range operations. Responsibilities include system modeling, hardware integration, technical analysis, supplier evaluation, troubleshooting Line Replaceable Units, engineering documentation, launch operations support, and guidance for less experienced personnel. The role requires digital interface, schematics, CAD, test equipment, operating systems, and hardware integration experience, along with eligibility for a DoD Secret clearance.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and supports hardware systems for Space Force Range operations. Responsibilities include system modeling, engineering analysis, technical documentation, supplier evaluation, hardware troubleshooting, LRU repair assistance, launch operations support, and coordination with engineering teams. The role requires digital interface, schematic, CAD, test equipment, computer systems, telemetry, and networking knowledge, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and supports hardware systems for Space Force Range operations. Responsibilities include system modeling, technical analysis, supplier evaluation, troubleshooting Line Replaceable Units, restoring operational systems, managing engineering processes, supporting launch operations, and guiding less experienced personnel. The role requires hardware integration, digital interfaces, schematics, CAD, specialized test equipment, Linux and Windows familiarity, and the ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance.

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.

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.

Design and develop embedded hardware, sensor boards, schematics, PCB layouts, and high-speed interfaces. Select components, create BOMs, perform signal, power, thermal, and certification testing, troubleshoot boards, and support bring-up and functional validation. Collaborate with suppliers, customers, fabrication, assembly, and integration teams while addressing field-testing issues and regulatory requirements.

Own the end-to-end sensor architecture for an autonomy platform, including modality and sensor selection, placement, compute integration, requirements, validation, calibration, and field deployment. Lead trade studies, ruggedize systems for heavy equipment and degraded conditions, diagnose hardware-software failures, manage suppliers, and establish technical standards. Provide cross-functional technical leadership across hardware, perception, software, and vehicle teams while helping build the sensor systems organization.

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.

Perform deep technical teardown and architectural analysis of AI/datacenter hardware (GPUs, CPUs, ASICs). Drive sample preparation, failure analysis, use FIB/SEM/X-ray tools, interpret design/process trade-offs (DTCO/STCO), co-author research, and expand lab capabilities and tooling.

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.

Maintains and troubleshoots server, storage, networking, cabling, and power hardware across a large-scale production data center fleet. Writes Python automation scripts, reviews logs and alerts, performs diagnostics, supports deployments, builds hardware health dashboards, coordinates with DevOps, supply chain, and vendors, and assists with hardware evaluation and reliability improvements. Requires on-call availability and travel to data center sites.