Top Hardware Engineer Jobs

Supports systems integration and architecture development for ISR and C4ISR programs. Assists with integration and migration planning, systems and subsystem interoperability, transition planning, technical analysis, documentation, and deployment oversight. Works with technical leads to translate mission and business requirements into integrated solutions and executes assigned tasks under detailed guidance.

Design and verify digital circuit boards and FPGA-based subsystems for advanced MRI platforms. Develop RTL in VHDL or Verilog, integrate processors, memory, data converters, and communications interfaces, and support simulation, synthesis, timing closure, board bring-up, laboratory testing, debugging, and system integration. The role also includes technical mentoring, design reviews, architecture input, and engineering process improvement.

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 multidisciplinary electrical, mechanical, optical, and drafting teams developing EO/IR electro-mechanical hardware for defense applications. Owns technical execution, costs, schedules, budgets, quality, reliability, manufacturability, and engineering processes. Supports proposals, estimates, customer and supplier engagement, and product development under demanding environmental conditions. Requires extensive engineering leadership experience and U.S. citizenship; current DoD clearance, EVMS certification, electro-optics, RF, and design-for-manufacturability experience are preferred.

Assist with server subsystem design and validation, verify designs against functional specifications, create technical documentation and Python test scripts, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The intern will use hardware lab equipment and may work with Cadence design tools to help deliver quality products on schedule.

Develop and deliver electrical and hardware designs for industrial field instruments, including transmitters, gas detection equipment, sensors, and measuring systems. Responsibilities include schematic development, circuit analysis, component selection, PCB design, verification testing, technical documentation, and collaboration with manufacturing, simulation, supply chain, and external testing teams. The role also applies value and component engineering principles to identify lower-cost designs while meeting performance, certification, and manufacturing requirements.

Deliver global NAND test tooling hardware solutions for wafer and package testing. Collaborate with customers and distributed product development teams to identify hardware requirements, meet development schedules, and support sustainability and evolving NAND roadmap needs. The role requires developing and delivering semiconductor tooling hardware using mechanical or electrical engineering expertise and CAD/PCB design applications.

Develop electrical and hardware designs for industrial field instruments, including sensors, transmitters, detectors, and measurement systems. Responsibilities include schematic development, circuit analysis, component selection, verification testing, PCB design, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration. The engineer will apply value and component engineering principles to identify lower-cost solutions while maintaining performance, compliance, manufacturability, and certification requirements. The role requires expertise in analog and digital electronics, sensors, signal conditioning, microcontroller interfacing, communication protocols, EMI/EMC testing, and new product introduction.

Support hardware engineering teams by designing, documenting, building, testing, and debugging robotic and electromechanical systems. Responsibilities include CAD-based part design, assembly, robot motion scripting in Python, BOM and ECO management, PLC implementation, reliability testing, and root cause analysis. Interns may work across mechanical, electrical, testing, and industrial controls functions while collaborating with experienced engineers on warehouse automation technology.

Designs and validates electrical and electronic components, subsystems, integrated circuitry, and hardware solutions. Develops test plans covering tolerances, form, fit, function, shock, vibration, EMI, safety, reliability, thermal performance, and power. Performs feasibility, margin, validation, modeling, and empirical analyses; collaborates with internal and outsourced engineering partners; evaluates production reliability and supports prototype fabrication for reliable, cost-effective products.

Own end-to-end RF hardware design for space radios, from architecture, schematics, layout, and PCB implementation through bring-up, characterization, qualification, and flight. Design RF chains, manage cascade performance, select space-grade components, and lead failure analysis. Establish verification and documentation standards while mentoring engineers and serving as the technical authority for high-reliability radio hardware.

Lead hardware reliability efforts for autonomous vehicle systems by assessing designs, developing shock, vibration, and thermal test campaigns, analyzing failures, driving corrective actions, facilitating DFMEA, and creating predictive reliability models. Collaborate with hardware, systems, safety, software, field operations, and manufacturing teams to improve reliability across diverse environments and support mass production of automotive and optomechanical hardware.

Lead Azure hardware platform validation and debugging from post-silicon bring-up through production deployment. Develop validation strategies, automation, tooling, and qualification processes; investigate complex hardware, firmware, operating system, driver, and cloud-service issues; and drive corrective actions. Collaborate across architecture, security, manufacturing, performance, and infrastructure teams to improve platform availability, reliability, performance, observability, and operational scale.

Designs and develops FPGAs for audio and video products, leads architecture and technology decisions, and supports product development and maintenance. Responsibilities include FPGA verification, board-level electrical design and testing, schedule management, technical collaboration, and engineering support. Requires Verilog HDL expertise, Altera and AMD Xilinx FPGA experience, high-speed SERDES, DDR3/DDR4 interfaces, embedded SoCs, and RTL simulation skills. The role is full-time office-based in Richardson, Texas, with up to 15% travel.

Designs and develops analog and digital hardware for Navy electric power systems. Responsibilities include creating hardware and system specifications, developing and executing test plans, documenting designs, managing moderately complex hardware projects, coordinating with purchasing and manufacturing, and mentoring associate engineers and technicians. The role requires collaboration across engineering teams and supports the development of a new shipboard product line.

Designs and develops integrated hardware and software solutions for Space Force range communications systems. Integrates communications subsystem functions, allocates requirements, analyzes system performance and range deficiencies, develops architecture and CONOPS recommendations, and provides communications modeling and simulation expertise. Requires collaboration across subsystems, technical documentation, and occasional non-duty-hour support.

Develops and characterizes RF switches, filters, resonators, and front-end modules using SOI and FBAR/SAW technologies. Responsibilities include RF modeling, filter synthesis, die and PCB layout, test setup and automation, 3D electromagnetic simulation, yield analysis, qualification planning, and troubleshooting. The role collaborates with design, integration, test, quality, and manufacturing teams to resolve complex RF engineering issues.

Own the end-to-end hardware product roadmap for XLynk and manufacturing partner product lines. Manage approved hardware vendors, technical specifications, integrations, certifications, global compliance requirements, and integration testing. Partner with engineering, sales, and compliance teams to align hardware strategy with regional market and customer needs. The role requires hands-on onsite work in Schenectady, NY, with industry experience in EV charging, IoT, or unattended-payment hardware.

Lead development of advanced inverter and power electronics hardware for electric vehicles. Design analog and digital circuits, high-voltage PCBs, magnetics, and fast-switching power stages. Perform signal and power integrity, electromagnetic, thermal, and worst-case analyses; optimize layouts for manufacturability, EMC, reliability, and performance. Collaborate with systems, mechanical, manufacturing, suppliers, and engineering teams through validation and production readiness.

Leads a team developing high-volume Starlink electronics from concept through production. Owns electrical architecture, component selection, circuit board design, validation, bring-up, debugging, reliability improvements, and automated testing. Coaches engineers into product ownership and partners cross-functionally with antenna, software, mechanical, thermal, networking, manufacturing, and production test teams. Requires travel to Hawthorne and Redmond up to 20%.

Design and develop high-speed, high-density ASIC package layouts and IC substrates. Responsibilities include substrate breakout, pin assignment optimization, routing, placement, stack-up, power distribution, CAD library development, feasibility studies, and resolving manufacturing, cost, and electrical issues using Cadence tools.

Designs and develops enterprise and small-business networking switches from architecture through production. Responsibilities include creating technical documentation, system block diagrams, schematics and layout reviews, hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, validation, yield improvement, supplier collaboration, and sustaining customer issue resolution. The role partners with ASIC suppliers, ODM/JDM manufacturers, software, product management, and cross-functional teams throughout new product introduction and commercialization.

Designs and validates high-speed signal and power integrity solutions for packages, PCBs, and ASIC systems. Responsibilities include SI/PI simulations for advanced interfaces, 3D electromagnetic modeling, power delivery network optimization, lab measurements, model correlation, simulation automation, and data analysis. The engineer collaborates cross-functionally on package, PCB, mixed-signal, and system-level design optimization.

Integrate, assemble, calibrate, test, and qualify imaging sensor systems from prototypes through production. Build and deploy hardware, analyze test data, iterate designs with algorithm and opto-mechanical teams, develop test procedures and fixtures, and support supplier readiness. Automate workflows using Python and AI tools. The role is fully on-site in Los Angeles and includes regular weekend travel to test sites and suppliers.

Diagnoses and troubleshoots rugged embedded computing hardware and complex electronic assemblies to the component level. Performs electrical and functional testing, interprets schematics and assembly documentation, documents findings, analyzes failure trends, and recommends corrective actions. Collaborates with Production, Manufacturing Engineering, and Design Engineering to improve product quality, manufacturing processes, test procedures, and diagnostic tools.