Top Design Engineer Jobs

Design and optimize high-performance DRAM architectures for AI workloads, collaborating with cross-functional teams to validate and improve memory solutions.

Design and optimize digital and analog circuits for next-generation DRAM, lead simulation, verification, layout and tape-out, perform parasitic and PDN analysis, drive silicon validation, advance AI-assisted design/automation, and provide technical leadership and mentorship across multifunctional teams.

Design and analyze digital and analog circuits for memory products, including layout, floor-planning, placement, routing, parasitic modeling, simulation, validation, and tape-out revisions. Collaborate globally with design, verification, manufacturing, testing, process integration, assembly, product engineering, and marketing teams to improve manufacturability, quality, cost, reliability, and time to market. Support memory-generation innovation and design standardization.

Designs engineered-to-order combustion systems, including fuel skids and air heater chambers. Performs pressure regulator and blower sizing, specifies components, develops CAD designs, maintains bills of material and engineering drawings, and coordinates with engineering, purchasing, fabrication, vendors, and customers. Supports project execution, technical issue resolution, site activities, scheduling, delivery KPIs, and continuous improvement for industrial combustion applications.

Lead digital ASIC design for high-performance connectivity silicon supporting AI data centers. Responsibilities include SoC microarchitecture, SystemVerilog RTL development, ASIC front-end flows, timing and power optimization, subsystem integration, verification strategy, emulation, FPGA prototyping, and silicon bring-up. The role focuses on DSP pipelines, high-speed datapaths, Ethernet protocols, PHY logic, and advanced process nodes while mentoring engineers and driving technical direction.

Designs functional, reliable, cost-effective Maintenance of Way equipment and systems. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, engineering calculations, bills of materials, engineering change orders, prototype and production support, design reviews, troubleshooting, and collaboration with production, testing, sourcing, suppliers, and customers. The role also maintains design schedules and supports field testing and implementation while meeting cost, safety, reliability, and performance requirements.

Develop and validate High Bandwidth Memory products from design through qualification and production. Responsibilities include interpreting JEDEC specifications, documenting architectures, reviewing schematics and layouts, performing silicon validation, debugging hardware and software in the lab, running circuit simulations, analyzing data, collaborating across engineering and manufacturing teams, and improving validation methods and workflows.

Develops platform hardware from system requirements through schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, debugging, validation, and customer delivery. The role defines components and routing rules, evaluates BOM costs and design tradeoffs, ensures hardware-software compatibility, performs electrical and mixed-signal design activities, and leads power-on and system debug efforts. It requires cross-functional collaboration with architects, verification, manufacturing, project management, and technical teams.

Designs and verifies complex FPGA and ASIC digital hardware for a missile program across the full product lifecycle. Responsibilities include developing high-speed digital designs, implementing FPGA architectures and DSP algorithms, analyzing and testing hardware, selecting components, reviewing designs, supporting timing closure and verification, and collaborating with systems engineering. The role is full-time, on-site in Northridge, California, and requires the ability to obtain an active Secret clearance.

Lead and support industrial gas turbine combustion system development and upgrade projects. Design combustor components and systems, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage schedules, risks, procurement, manufacturing, field execution, and technical reviews. Support cost estimating, tendering, documentation, engineering changes, verification plans, and client presentations. Apply CAD and analysis tools while improving engineering procedures, quality, efficiency, and execution costs.

Designs digital circuitry for battery gauge mixed-signal SoCs, translating system requirements into microarchitecture, RTL, and production hardware. Owns the digital flow from RTL through GDSII, collaborates with analog, verification, validation, product, and test engineering teams, and supports first-pass production transfer. The role also improves architectures, develops embedded controller and DSP capabilities, automates design flows, and leads technical discussions and cross-functional collaboration.

Design and develop high-performance RF and millimeter-wave MMICs for satellite communications, including power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, and RF switches. Own designs from architecture through layout, electromagnetic simulation, tapeout, characterization, and system integration. Optimize performance across power, efficiency, linearity, noise, bandwidth, and robustness while collaborating with RF systems, antenna, packaging, and transceiver teams.

Design and develop high-performance RF and millimeter-wave MMICs, including power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, and RF switches, from architecture through tapeout, characterization, and product integration. Perform circuit and electromagnetic simulations, optimize performance, develop test plans, validate hardware, correlate measurements with simulations, and collaborate with systems, antenna, packaging, and transceiver teams on satellite communication products.

Own mechanical design, documentation, and commissioning for industrial automation systems, robotic equipment, conveyors, material-handling systems, and EOAT. Responsibilities include SolidWorks modeling, drawings, BOM management, prototyping, assembly, system integration, troubleshooting, testing, root-cause analysis, design for manufacturability, vendor coordination, and supporting product improvements. The role is hands-on and requires shop-floor work, cross-functional collaboration, on-site work near Chicago, and travel up to 25%.

Own electrical subsystem development for drone and dock platforms, including architecture, schematic capture, multilayer PCB layout, RF design, firmware, bring-up, validation, and production support. The role requires C/C++ firmware development, simulation-based analysis, hardware testing, root cause analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.

Designs, upgrades, configures, and supports WAN, LAN, and MPLS networks. Develops secure network architectures aligned with DISA STIGs and enterprise policies, evaluates and integrates network technologies, documents designs, and supports ATO efforts. Provides advanced troubleshooting, QoS optimization, network analysis, fault isolation, and technical guidance to operations teams. Requires extensive networking experience, Juniper expertise, TS/SCI with polygraph clearance, and DoD IAT Level 2 compliance.

Design and evaluate hydraulic fluid systems, mechanical and electromechanical components for aviation, ground, and weapon platforms. Develop CAD models, 2D drawings, piping designs, pressure and stress calculations, FEA, CFD, thermal, vibration, and multiphysics analyses. Create technical data packages, test equipment, engineering reports, and design documentation. Collaborate with engineers, fabricators, technical writers, program managers, and government customers through fabrication and testing.

Design and validate integrated optical and photonic sensor systems for semiconductor lithography. Responsibilities include optical simulation, system performance analysis, laboratory testing, characterization, alignment, test software development, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and technical documentation. The role collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams, researchers, suppliers, and external partners to translate requirements into practical engineering solutions and recommend design improvements.

Lead mechanical design and development for hydraulic and pneumatic valves and actuators used in aerospace and power generation. Responsibilities include fluid and structural calculations, mechanical modeling, prototype and qualification testing, customer specification compliance, product test development, engineering leadership, supplier and customer communication, and operational support. The role manages new product development programs from concept through manufacturing and field support.

Leads the design, qualification, and lifecycle support of advanced transmission cable products, including copper, fiber-optic, power, and hybrid constructions. Applies electromagnetic, optical, and RF theory to develop manufacturable, standards-compliant designs. Manages testing, qualification, documentation, engineering changes, supplier and manufacturing support, root-cause analysis, customer troubleshooting, and cross-functional development projects. Provides technical training and contributes to product roadmaps, R&D planning, and continuous improvement.

Design and document machine components and assemblies using 3D CAD and 2D layouts, produce detailed drawings and BOMs, create presentations and operational manuals, support prototyping, supplier sourcing, and ensure hygienic design for food industry equipment.

Designs and develops tooling, fixtures, jigs, gauges, cutting and forming tools, carts, and racks for manufacturing and experimental applications. Creates CAD models and documentation, evaluates tooling performance, determines specifications and testing plans, estimates costs and materials, and may manage sourcing or procurement. Collaborates with manufacturing personnel and works independently on complex tooling projects.

Designs and develops tooling, fixtures, jigs, gauges, cutting tools, carts, racks, and machinery for manufacturing. Reviews requirements, creates CAD models and documentation, develops testing plans, estimates costs and materials, evaluates tool performance, and may support sourcing and procurement. Collaborates with plant and manufacturing personnel to determine specifications and improve production quality and efficiency.

Designs, develops, prototypes, tests, and revises conveyor-system products. Performs engineering calculations, modeling, simulations, data analysis, and test planning to ensure safe, reliable, maintainable, and cost-effective designs. Collaborates with manufacturing, quality, purchasing, and other teams to resolve issues and support production. Creates technical drawings, selects components, manages multiple projects, and mentors junior engineers. Travel of up to 20% is required.

Leads the architecture, design, modeling, validation, and optimization of advanced electron optical systems for semiconductor inspection, review, and metrology equipment. Responsibilities include developing electron sources, columns, lenses, detectors, and deflection systems; performing charged-particle simulations and tolerance analyses; validating performance experimentally; resolving complex technical issues; supporting production transfer and manufacturability; and providing technical leadership and mentorship.