Top Hardware Engineer Jobs

Own hardware design for quantum computing systems, including analog and digital PCB circuitry, high-speed electrical and optical links, FPGA and microcontroller systems, clocking, power distribution, signal integrity, and EMI suppression. Develop electro-optic test setups, characterize and debug circuitry, create measurement software, analyze performance data, and document designs and test results. Collaborate with thermal, mechanical, firmware, and optical engineering teams to deliver products for volume manufacturing.

Design and validate research hardware for human and animal neuroscience experiments, including ultrasound systems, electrophysiology implants, headstage interfaces, circuit boards, and test rigs. Translate scientific needs into requirements, guide external engineering partners, improve device portability and robustness, determine what to build internally, manage contractors, and prepare documented, reproducible platforms for outside researchers.

Design, develop, test, and maintain the FireAnt UGV’s primary PCBA across its full lifecycle. Responsibilities include mixed-signal and power circuit design, multilayer PCB layout, embedded STM32 firmware, power management, board bring-up, system integration, environmental validation, fault telemetry, manufacturing support, and field failure resolution. The engineer will collaborate with mechanical, software, and manufacturing teams to deliver reliable electronics for autonomous defense robotics.

Analyzes complex hardware systems and SIGINT solutions; develops hardware specifications, designs, installation plans, and technical documentation. Procures, configures, installs, tests, maintains, and troubleshoots computers, servers, networking and communication equipment. Conducts site surveys, prepares technical design packages and test reports, trains site personnel, and supports hardware deployments across CONUS and OCONUS locations. Requires travel and an active TS/SCI clearance with Maryland polygraph.

Designs, manufactures, tests, qualifies, and deploys highly integrated RF products for space communications. Owns RF designs across PCB, box, and system integration levels; performs design trades, analyses, troubleshooting, and requirements review. Collaborates with software, FPGA, supply chain, and manufacturing teams to move products from initial design through vehicle integration and scalable production.

Own the design, analysis, manufacturing, testing, qualification, and deployment of integrated RF products for space communications. Develop RF circuitry across PCB, box, and integration levels; troubleshoot and qualify designs; perform RF cascades, link budgets, and noise analyses; and collaborate with supply chain, manufacturing, software, hardware, and FPGA teams. The role also involves component selection for radiation environments, board rework, communications link modeling, antenna measurement, and high-PAPR signal development.

Owns the hardware lifecycle for GPU and infrastructure assets, including fleet health monitoring, vendor RMA workflows, firmware and BIOS upgrades, burn-in testing, failure investigation, inventory accuracy, capacity planning, spare-parts strategy, runbook creation, and new platform qualification. The role serves as the technical owner of physical compute platforms and supports high-density GPU infrastructure across sites.

Lead hardware for ODSP chip programs from PRD through mass production. Own architecture-level technical decisions, coordinate cross-functional global teams, drive design, tape-out, bring-up, silicon validation and qualification, resolve post-silicon issues, and mentor hardware engineers while improving design methodology and delivery quality.

Design and develop embedded hardware platforms using Intel processors, ARM-based SoCs, and FPGA fabric. Create schematics, select components, support multilayer PCB layout, and conduct signal and power integrity analysis. Lead hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, manufacturing support, and technical documentation. Design basic power converters, improve engineering processes, and mentor early-career engineers while ensuring manufacturability, reliability, compliance, and quality-system alignment.

Design and prototype sensor hardware, including PCBs, mechanical housings, and electromechanical systems for industrial environments. Develop test strategies, collect and analyze sensor data, integrate sensors with Zephyr RTOS platforms, and support field trials. Lead rapid R&D evaluations, product bringup, debugging, fabrication, and cross-functional system development.

Design and deliver complex hardware systems and sub-assemblies from concept through production. Responsibilities include defining specifications, architecting systems, evaluating suppliers, guiding schematic and layout reviews, developing EDVT/MDVT and EMI/EMC test plans, and validating prototypes in the lab. The role requires cross-functional collaboration across architecture, semiconductor, software, manufacturing, and external partners, with emphasis on high-speed optical and electrical I/O, signal and power integrity, thermal performance, reliability, compliance, cost, and schedule.

Analyze complex hardware systems supporting SIGINT customer operations. Responsibilities include developing hardware requirements and specifications, designing system components, procuring and testing equipment, providing preventive and remedial maintenance, conducting site surveys, preparing engineering and installation documentation, configuring computers and network devices, supporting deployments, and resolving operational hardware issues. Level 1 engineers also develop installation schedules, train site personnel, and prepare technical design packages and site reports.

Design and validate electrical subsystems for ruggedized, mass-produced devices. Responsibilities include schematic capture, constraint-driven PCB layout, embedded communications, sensor integration, hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and ensuring signal integrity, reliability, manufacturability, and compact form factors. The engineer collaborates with systems, RF, and software teams, owns EE deliverables, and leads hardware design efforts independently from initial design through production integration.

Design and validate power-management and battery systems for rugged, mission-critical devices. Responsibilities include developing DC-DC converters, integrating battery management systems, optimizing power delivery, meeting safety and certification requirements, debugging hardware with electrical test equipment, and supporting product integration and manufacturability. The role also involves leading power hardware designs technically and independently managing projects.

Lead hardware engineering for hyperscale storage systems, including x86 validation, electrical and signal-integrity testing, production readiness, root-cause analysis, component selection, system optimization, and technical escalations. Automate qualification workflows, evaluate CPUs, memory, PCIe devices, BMCs, and power systems, and use oscilloscopes, bus analyzers, and stress-testing tools to improve reliability. Collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, diagnostics, and operations while mentoring peers.

Build and maintain firmware and hardware for SageOx devices, create automated hardware-testing infrastructure, operate OTA fleet updates, and develop cloud, app, and web integrations. Establish agent-operable development harnesses, digital twins, device provisioning, and continuous testing for large-scale fleets. Evaluate future hardware, collaborate with suppliers, and help customize physical products. The role requires hands-on hardware hacking, systems thinking, independent execution, and daily use of agentic AI coding tools.

Design, develop, and analyze hardware systems and components. Collaborate with teams to create high-end routing platforms from concept to production. Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.

Designs and develops server platforms from concept through production. Responsibilities include defining system requirements and specifications, coordinating subsystem integration, configuring server products, optimizing performance, resolving technical issues, and ensuring manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability. The role requires extensive server design experience, strong x86 architecture knowledge, board-level development skills, and expertise in hardware/software interactions.

Owns hardware-level functional safety and system-level sensor safety for cameras, LiDAR, and radar. Responsibilities include reviewing supplier documentation for SEooC and AoU alignment, validating ASIL compliance, executing board-level FMEDA for FPGAs and microcontrollers, defining diagnostic monitoring requirements, and supporting SOTIF simulation and physical testing for perception edge cases. Requires an engineering degree, at least three years of hardware experience, and knowledge of ISO 26262 and SOTIF.

Develop and own compute and GPU server platforms from architecture through global deployment. Responsibilities include schematic and layout reviews, design for manufacturability, new product introduction, board and system bring-up, validation, debugging, firmware and BIOS feature management, technology qualification, and vendor coordination. The role requires hands-on server architecture, board-level design, Linux and scripting expertise, platform validation, and five-day-per-week presence in the Cambridge office.

Lead hardware design, qualification, validation, debugging, and production introduction for enterprise storage systems. Own architecture, documentation, failure analysis, test automation, signal and power integrity, and customer hardware escalations. Collaborate with software, manufacturing, operations, support, and diagnostics teams while mentoring engineers and improving system robustness. The role requires deep x86, storage, networking, bus, thermal, power, and hardware logic expertise, plus Python or Bash automation skills.

Lead and conduct post-silicon validation for AI compute blades and racks, ensuring performance meets product standards while collaborating with multiple teams and mentoring engineers.

Designs, tests, debugs, brings up, and manufactures custom high-speed, high-density hardware, primarily PCBs. Responsibilities include schematic capture, PCB layout, signal and power integrity simulation, initial hardware bring-up code, interface validation, test planning, requirements development, performance research, vendor management, and ownership from concept through production. Collaborates with trading, research, software, mechanical, and infrastructure engineering teams.

Designs and develops analog and digital circuits for Navy shipboard electric power systems. The role includes creating hardware and system specifications, developing and executing test plans, evaluating results, maintaining technical documentation, managing moderate-complexity hardware projects, coordinating with purchasing and manufacturing, and mentoring associate engineers and technicians.

Designs and brings up high-speed digital circuit boards featuring DDR, FPGAs, and networking interfaces. Performs schematic capture, EMC mitigation and testing, signal integrity simulation, laboratory testing, board debugging, root-cause analysis, and verification reporting. Uses FPGA design tools and technologies including Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog, Vitis, Vivado, Quartus, Xilinx devices, and Altera devices. Supports test case development and execution while applying verification methodologies relevant to the space industry.