Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead the Platform Firmware team at Samsara, driving hardware program execution, managing firmware engineers, and collaborating with various stakeholders for high-quality hardware delivery.

Validate server hardware components and new platform designs through power, thermal, performance, firmware, and automation testing. Maintain hardware test infrastructure, document technical findings, coordinate with ODM/OEM partners, and collaborate with software teams on BIOS, kernel, and firmware optimization. The role requires expertise in server architectures, validation methodologies, Linux, Python, Bash, Redfish, IPMI, and industry standards including PCIe, NVMe, and DDR.

Install, maintain, repair, and test navigation and survey electronics (GPS/GNSS, heading sensors, acoustic systems) on client vessels. Provide firmware/hardware diagnostics and chip-level repairs, equipment mobilization, remote and on-call technical support, and maintain QA/HSE and asset-control procedures. Liaise with project managers, field crews, and clients; support safety and continuous improvement programs.

Designs and tests electrical and electronic hardware components, subsystems, circuitry, and algorithms. Performs validation involving tolerances, form, fit, function, shock and vibration, electromagnetic interference, safety, reliability, thermal generation, and system power. Collaborates with internal and outsourced development partners to deliver reliable, cost-effective hardware solutions for low- to moderately complex products.

The Applications Engineer installs and integrates AI vision systems on production lines, troubleshoots issues, and provides customer support in manufacturing environments.

Supports the design, selection, integration, qualification, environmental testing, verification, and troubleshooting of spacecraft GN&C flight hardware, including sensors, actuators, and avionics interfaces. Responsibilities include trade studies, vendor management, AIT support, HIL and integrated system testing, technical documentation, flight readiness preparation, and post-test or post-flight analysis.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer leads the development of hardware for NASA projects, ensuring high-quality design and compliance with safety standards, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across disciplines.

Design and validate mechanical and thermal hardware, electronics enclosures, and production tooling. Develop and execute test plans for tolerances, shock/vibration, EMI, reliability, thermal and acoustics. Collaborate with internal and outsourced partners, create cost-effective solutions, and support prototype fabrication and production readiness for low- to moderately-complex products.

Develops and maintains systems requirements, verification plans, architecture analyses, risk responses, and subsystem interfaces for NASA spaceflight hardware. Prepares materials for SRR, PDR, and CDR reviews, supports requirements flowdown and verification closeout, presents technical information, and collaborates with NASA customers and contractors. The role requires systems engineering experience in aerospace, NASA, or DoD environments, familiarity with NASA JSC processes, and use of requirements management tools.

The engineer will design, develop, test and improve integrated hardware/software systems, analyze customer issues, and provide technical expertise in photonic integrated circuits.

Seeking exceptional technical builders for undefined role, focused on operating complex systems and solving tough problems across various layers of technology.

Design, analyze, integrate, test, and scale mechanical and vacuum hardware for space resource utilization. Responsibilities include designing vacuum components, performing mechanical and fluid analyses, integrating electrical and control systems, leading design reviews, overseeing procurement and assembly, executing qualification tests, and developing manufacturable hardware from prototypes to production-representative systems.

Support development, testing, integration, and lifecycle management of security and surveillance hardware. Configure and troubleshoot IP cameras, networking (TCP/IP, PoE, VLANs, DHCP/DNS, VPNs), low-voltage electrical systems, and firmware. Build POCs, maintain BOMs, lab/demo equipment, documentation, and provide technical guidance to manufacturing, support, sales engineering, and field teams.

Design and develop wireless power transfer and energy-harvesting hardware for IoT and wearable devices. Apply power electronics, RF and electromagnetic theory to create ICs and circuits, integrate solutions into scalable systems, optimize energy efficiency, and drive sustainable innovation for large sensor networks.

Design compact connected hardware from concept through prototyping and validation for IoT devices. Optimize for connectivity, energy efficiency, durability, usability, and manufacturability. Collaborate with software and engineering teams, participate in design reviews, and apply current hardware design trends and tools.

Lead hardware engineering for IoT devices focusing on PCB design, embedded firmware, and low-power long-range communications (LoRaWAN and Sub-GHz). Manage multidisciplinary teams, ensure regulatory compliance and interoperability, optimize power consumption and network performance for industrial LPWAN deployments, and drive technical strategy for scalable, reliable connected devices.

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.

As a System Engineer, you'll design, deploy, and maintain cloud systems for AI workloads, troubleshoot complex issues, and collaborate with teams to optimize performance.

Design, test, and integrate electrical power storage systems for spaceflight modules, including batteries and related electrical control systems, collaborating with teams and suppliers.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Provides technical leadership and customer support for Marvell switching, PHY, and processor SoC products. Architects hardware solutions, investigates and reproduces hardware and software issues, performs schematic reviews, debugs boot sequencing and customer-reported problems, and supports Linux BSPs, U-Boot, device drivers, and board designs. Serves as a liaison among customers, Avnet field applications engineers, and Marvell engineering teams, while delivering training and occasional customer-site support.

Leads global hardware engineering and architecture for servers, firewalls, security appliances, switches, and access points. Defines system architectures, coordinates board and system design, power, signal integrity, mechanical and thermal engineering, validation, and compliance. Oversees internal and JDM/ODM development, executive reporting, product strategy, budgets, hiring, and team development while partnering with Software, Product, Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain.

Lead electrical/hardware architecture and multi-board design efforts across products. Define organization-wide design methodologies, evaluate and integrate new technologies, mentor engineers, manage schedules/budgets/resources, ensure compliance with standards, and drive validation, testing, and manufacturability improvements.

Design, simulate, validate, debug, and optimize high‑speed electrical and optical links and memory interfaces. Create simulation models, correlate to lab measurements, define PCB signal integrity rules and stackups, execute hands‑on testing to root cause issues, and produce test plans and documentation.

Administer and maintain Slingshot hardware and development systems for HPC networking ASIC validation. Install and update hardware and software, build compute node images, operate and administer compute clusters, monitor and improve system-status reporting, debug prototype failures, and collaborate with ASIC, hardware, and software teams. Provide guidance and mentoring to junior staff.