Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs in Greensboro, NC

Designs, develops, tests, and supports hardware and firmware security technologies across Cisco products. Responsibilities include HDL design and verification, board bring-up and lab debugging, hardware architecture reviews, security solution deployment, proof-of-concept development, documentation, scripting, threat evaluation, and advising product teams on embedded hardware security. Requires collaboration across concurrent initiatives and ongoing investigation of evolving security technologies.

Designs and develops hardware boards and systems for Cisco routing products, spanning architecture, schematic design, development, bring-up, validation, testing, qualification, and production readiness. Collaborates with software, diagnostics, manufacturing, marketing, and test teams. Requires extensive experience with x86 or ARM processors, DDR memory, high-speed interfaces, signal integrity, power distribution, Ethernet, FPGA technologies, and schematic capture tools.

Tests, validates, and troubleshoots next-generation cloud server hardware for performance, power, reliability, and quality. Develops test scripts, documents results, identifies defects, recommends improvements, and resolves hardware issues across engineering and manufacturing environments. Requires hands-on embedded systems debugging, Linux and scripting experience, and knowledge of server architecture, firmware, operating systems, networking, storage, and hardware acceleration technologies.

Develop and operate Akamai’s Linux-based cloud infrastructure, including bare-metal and virtual machine platforms, kernels, operating systems, and KVM/QEMU virtualization. Build software, automation, observability, and infrastructure enhancements at scale; troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues; collaborate across engineering and operations; mentor team members; and participate in on-call service restoration.

The role involves optimizing hardware support within a software stack for AI model deployment, collaborating with teams and hardware vendors to enhance performance and portability across platforms.

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.

Pipeline hiring for hardware engineers at all experience levels. Work includes circuit board design, schematic capture, component selection and prototype bring-up, hardware debug/testing and failure analysis, integration with firmware/software teams, and design for manufacturability with production handoff.

Design, build, and operate reliable backend systems while mentoring engineers, participating in design discussions, and improving system performance.