Top Design Engineer Jobs

Performs structural engineering calculations, inspections, design analysis, plans, reports, and field issue resolution for heavy civil structures. Ensures compliance with engineering standards, codes, specifications, budgets, and timelines while coordinating with project managers, clients, contractors, and government agencies. Uses computer-aided design and structural analysis software, contributes to design recommendations, attends client events, and maintains safety standards.

Builds production-ready design and interface components in code, bridging design and engineering across React Native, React, and mobile and web platforms. Uses AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and v0 at high production velocity. Defines design-to-code workflows, design tokens, component architecture, and improved handoff practices while collaborating closely with designers and engineers in a fast-moving environment.

Design and model mechanical systems, components, machines, automation equipment, and fluid or pneumatic test benches. Perform FEA and CFD analysis, select materials and manufacturing processes, optimize designs for manufacturability, conduct prototype testing, and prepare technical documentation. Lead design reviews, collaborate with manufacturing and quality teams, manage project priorities, and drive continuous improvement while meeting safety, performance, reliability, budget, and schedule requirements.

Develop and own physical design tools, flows, and methodologies for AI accelerator silicon. Lead block implementation from floorplanning through final signoff, collaborating with RTL designers, EDA vendors, and ASIC partners. Optimize timing, power, and area while driving PPA convergence and improving execution quality. The role requires expertise in physical design, methodology development, coding, RTL, microarchitecture, physical verification, timing closure, and industry-standard synthesis and implementation tools.

Designs process piping, industrial ventilation, equipment layouts, and plant systems for mining and heavy industrial projects. Develops plans, specifications, detailed drawings, and process flow diagrams while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams. May support construction administration by interpreting plans, observing progress, and maintaining compliance reports. Requires a mechanical engineering degree and 2–5 years of progressive mechanical systems design experience. Hybrid work is available in Duluth or Bloomington, Minnesota, with up to 15% travel.

Own the range extender generator and inverter subsystem for Scout’s electric vehicle platform. Lead technical coordination with engineering contractors and Tier 1 suppliers, release CAD and drawings through PLM systems, manage engineering changes, coordinate prototype hardware delivery, and ensure subsystem performance against packaging, cost, mass, timing, and technical requirements throughout development and production.

Designs and develops pharmaceutical drug-delivery devices and platforms using CAD, prototyping, testing, tolerance analysis, and Design for Manufacturing principles. Collaborates with internal teams, external consultants, CROs, and manufacturing partners to troubleshoot products, support design controls, build intellectual property, and transfer devices into production. Manages project budgets and timelines while serving as a technical resource for cross-functional teams.

Designs, prototypes, analyzes, assembles, and tests high-performance electric motors for aerospace and defense applications. Leads electromagnetic topology development, materials selection, GD&T, manufacturability, supplier collaboration, inspection, and verification. Performs FEA and electromagnetic modeling while balancing cost, efficiency, mass, thermal performance, and reliability. Reviews technical documentation, audits supplier processes, and supports cross-functional engineering and manufacturing decisions. The role is primarily on-site with infrequent travel to customer and supplier facilities.

Leads large-scale logistics solution design for distribution, fulfillment, transportation, automation, and network optimization initiatives. Responsibilities include warehouse layout and process design, labor and capacity modeling, financial and ROI analysis, RFQ/RFP/RFI support, customer presentations, project governance, implementation support, and team leadership. Partners with Commercial, Operations, Finance, IT, Procurement, customers, vendors, and implementation teams to deliver scalable, operationally sound, and financially viable supply chain solutions.

Leads mechanical design, analysis, subsystem integration, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing support for HVAC equipment. Designs sheet-metal assemblies, airflow systems, heat exchangers, enclosures, and safety features, including A2L refrigerant adaptations. Develops CAD models, drawings, BOM logic, and test plans; supports compliance, sourcing, DFMEA, DFM/DFA, root-cause analysis, and engineering changes. Collaborates cross-functionally and mentors drafting and design personnel.

Design and build a scalable, responsive UI; lead frontend architecture and optimization; apply UI/UX best practices; integrate with backend APIs; ensure high web performance and deploy user-facing features.

The Senior Electrical Engineer designs, validates, and integrates embedded electrical systems for various voltage applications, leading development from concept to production while managing multiple R&D projects.

Design and implement a coherent design system and data-dense frontend interfaces. Lead frontend implementation in React, write production code, review against design intent, talk with users to shape solutions, and balance craft with shipping velocity.

Supports mechanical engineering design and development for large-scale product programs. Responsibilities include feasibility studies, 3D modeling, layout reviews, 2D drawings, part specifications, BOM creation, cost analysis, strength calculations, material selection, supplier coordination, and design-for-manufacturing improvements. The role requires independent problem solving, communication with component teams and suppliers, and travel to client sites.

Design, implement, verify, and optimize FPGA-based digital signal processing systems. Responsibilities include architecture, RTL coding (VHDL/Verilog), HLS, testbench development, simulation, synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, and hardware debugging for high-speed interfaces and embedded SoC architectures.

Own verification of custom AI accelerator hardware, including matrix and vector engines. Develop SystemVerilog and UVM environments, reference models, assertions, checkers, coverage, and regressions. Verify numerical precision, quantization, data flow, performance, latency, and power efficiency across RTL blocks and complete systems. Collaborate with architecture, software, compiler, runtime, and systems teams through design bring-up, emulation, and pre-silicon validation.

Design and verify Velaura’s next-generation Physical AI SoC from RTL blocks through full hardware and software systems. Responsibilities include building SoC simulation environments, verifying boot, root of trust, clock/reset, low-power, IO and memory subsystems, running CDC/RDC analysis, evaluating performance and QoS, and supporting coverage closure, signoff, and tape-out. The role also involves hardware-software co-verification, emulation, FPGA prototyping, and post-silicon debugging.

Develop and execute verification strategies for a next-generation Physical AI SoC. Build SystemVerilog and UVM environments, assertions, checkers, scoreboards, and formal verification flows. Verify digital blocks, memory systems, interconnects, processors, DMA engines, and complete HW/SW behavior. Perform performance, latency, QoS, emulation, FPGA prototyping, pre-silicon bring-up, post-silicon debugging, and hardware-software root-cause analysis.

Verify Velaura’s next-generation Physical AI SoC from RTL blocks through complete HW/SW systems. Responsibilities include developing SystemVerilog and UVM environments, assertions, coverage, formal verification, emulation, FPGA prototyping, performance and safety validation, post-silicon debug, and root-cause analysis. The role covers compute engines, memory, interconnects, processors, DMA, firmware, drivers, and operating-system interactions while collaborating across architecture, RTL, software, and systems teams.

Own functional verification of custom CPU units from test planning through coverage closure. Build SystemVerilog and UVM environments with C/C++, stimulus, checkers, assertions, and coverage. Verify instruction execution, caches, memory ordering, coherence, exceptions, privilege behavior, performance, and reliability. Run regressions, support emulation and FPGA prototyping, enable pre-silicon software bring-up, and perform hardware-software root cause analysis.

Designs and evaluates traffic improvements, signals, roundabouts, intersections, traffic control devices, and work zones. Performs transportation planning, safety engineering, traffic signal warrant analyses, and multimodal project design. Leads agency and client meetings, prepares technical reports and presentations, manages tasks, and mentors junior staff. The role requires collaboration with transportation agencies and private developers and includes final design plan development.

Leads complex highway and roadway design projects from inception through construction administration. Responsibilities include geometric layout, grading, drainage, utilities, permitting, technical task management, project budgeting and scheduling, quality assurance, specifications, client proposals, and mentoring junior staff. Requires collaboration across disciplines, public presentations, and travel to client meetings and project sites.

Leads architecture and design of high-speed mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuits for ATE applications. Responsibilities include wireline transmitters and receivers, DFE, clock and data recovery, VCO/PLL collaboration, analog and digital equalization, custom high-speed digital circuits, system integration, technical leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder presentations.

Own the complete thermal system for medium-voltage solid-state power conversion products, from architecture and modeling through CAD, CFD, prototyping, validation, manufacturing, and production. Lead concept selection, thermal routing, DFM/DFA, testing, troubleshooting, and technical direction for junior engineers. Collaborate cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, quality, supplier, and factory teams to solve novel thermal engineering challenges.

Design and integrate aircraft configurations for autonomous UAVs, including aerodynamic, structural, propulsion, and mission-system trade studies. Develop CAD models, perform basic FEA, CFD, and weight-balance analyses, support prototyping and wind-tunnel testing, and contribute to requirements, verification, manufacturing transition, and production efforts.