Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Huntsville, AL

Designs, develops, tests, debugs, and supports advanced electrical hardware for defense and precision-strike systems. Responsibilities include digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuit development; laboratory testing with electronic instrumentation; hardware debugging; manufacturing and test methodology support; and collaboration across engineering disciplines. The role also provides technical leadership while delivering reliable hardware capable of operating in harsh environments.

Leads hardware engineering strategy for PS hardware, ASIC/FPGA, and microelectronics packaging solutions. Develops technical roadmaps, aligns research and development with customer and market needs, supports proposals and business capture, manages intellectual property, and advances technology transitions. Engages defense customers and external partners while mentoring engineering talent and guiding cross-business collaboration. Requires substantial experience with precision strike, avionics, navigation, acquisition processes, open architectures, and modular design.

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.

Maintains and troubleshoots server, storage, networking, cabling, and power hardware across a large-scale production data center fleet. Writes Python automation scripts, reviews logs and alerts, performs diagnostics, supports deployments, builds hardware health dashboards, coordinates with DevOps, supply chain, and vendors, and assists with hardware evaluation and reliability improvements. Requires on-call availability and travel to data center sites.

Designs and verifies ultra-high-speed PCB circuits and new routing-system hardware for Nokia’s Service Router products. Responsibilities include schematic and board design, simulation, design verification, production release, board bring-up, debugging, and hardware-lab testing. The role also maintains hardware and system integrity while collaborating with engineering teams to deliver reliable high-performance digital hardware.

Supports systems integration and architecture development for ISR and C4ISR programs. Assists with integration and migration planning, systems and subsystem interoperability, transition planning, technical analysis, documentation, and deployment oversight. Works with technical leads to translate mission and business requirements into integrated solutions and executes assigned tasks under detailed guidance.

Provides technical leadership for Azure cloud-scale distributed data platforms processing network telemetry and operational data. Defines architecture and long-term technical strategy, leads streaming and batch system design, resolves complex scalability and reliability challenges, oversees production readiness and continuous improvement, and influences cross-team technical investments. Partners across Azure Networking, conducts design reviews, establishes reusable engineering patterns, improves observability and quality, and mentors engineers and technical leaders.

Leads technical pre-sales engagements for geospatial navigation solutions across enterprise and defense accounts. Architects GNSS, INS, FOG, and multisensor systems; leads proofs of concept, field testing, integrations, demonstrations, and executive presentations. Partners with sales, product, and R&D teams to address technical objections and influence product roadmaps. Provides technical mentorship while supporting complex customer deployments and traveling extensively to client and testing sites.

Designs and develops hardware test boards and platforms for high-speed electro-optical device characterization in R&D and manufacturing environments. Performs laboratory testing, analog design and debugging, test-system development, hardware bring-up, and firmware development for microcontrollers. Supports System-on-Chip optical engine development and interfaces with vendors. Preferred experience includes power supply design, advanced PCB stack-ups, optical instrumentation, automated measurements, and coherent optical communications.

Leads electrical and hardware design for complex analog, digital, and mixed-signal systems, including PCB architecture, simulation, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and hardware validation. Serves as the technical authority, collaborates with mechanical, software, and manufacturing teams, evaluates technologies, mentors engineers, and supports production assembly and testing for Army customer projects.

Own mechanical and electrical integration of quantum sensing and navigation hardware onto UAS platforms. Build, bring up, debug, modify, and test integrated systems across laboratory, environmental, field, and flight environments. Develop brackets, fixtures, cabling, and interface hardware; coordinate with systems and software engineers; document builds and anomalies; support suppliers, procurement, equipment maintenance, and safe laboratory practices. The role supports defense and aerospace programs and requires intermittent domestic and international travel.

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.

Designs and maintains high-speed digital hardware for Nokia Service Router products. Responsibilities include ultra-high-speed PCB circuit design, simulation, verification testing, board bring-up, laboratory debugging, and taking complex board designs from concept through production release. The role requires collaboration with engineering teams, ownership of hardware integrity, and practical use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and digital debugging tools.

Provides technical leadership and mentoring while operating, maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and modernizing C-band and Ka-band radar hardware systems. Supports RF and high-power transmitter equipment, control hardware, circuit card assemblies, and high-voltage systems. Performs preventive maintenance, diagnostics, installation, calibration, testing, and acceptance testing. Requires relocation to Kwajalein Atoll, U.S. citizenship, Secret clearance eligibility, and occasional weekend or non-duty-hours support.

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.

Supports hardware engineering for Patriot Launcher and GEM-T Missile programs within the Lower Tier Interceptor product office. Responsibilities include reviewing requirements, qualification test plans, engineering change documentation, and technical data packages; participating in systems engineering reviews, IPT meetings, and technical interchange meetings; and developing courses of action for emerging requirements and obsolescence mitigation. The role requires hardware integration expertise, engineering design review experience, an active security clearance, and travel up to 25%.

Designs electrical control systems for conveyor and material-handling equipment, including power calculations, 480V and 120V schematics, I/O drawings, PLC and panel layouts, field-device layouts, and material specifications. Collaborates with customers, sales engineers, and project managers to define requirements. Inspects, tests, commissions, and troubleshoots motor control panels for compliance with design standards, codes, and project specifications.

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.

Design and analyze electronic hardware and firmware for radar and high-power systems. Develop circuit board designs, requirements, test plans, and support test events. Conduct trade studies, troubleshoot electronics, and produce technical documentation to meet customer and contract requirements.

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.

Provides operations and maintenance support for C-band and Ka-band radar hardware, including preventive maintenance, diagnostics, troubleshooting, repair, calibration, installation, and acceptance testing. Leads improvement and modernization projects, managing schedules and budgets while coordinating spares and providing technical input on system configuration and performance. The role requires field work, working at heights, physical lifting, occasional weekend or non-duty-hour support, relocation to Kwajalein Atoll, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for a Secret clearance.

Debug and resolve complex hardware/software issues for manufacturing test stations. Lead commissioning and release-to-manufacturing of opto-electrical test stations, improve test uptime, provide documentation and support to contract manufacturers and vendors, coordinate equipment RFQs/RMAs, and use AI tools for data analysis.

The Electrical Hardware Design Engineer will design, develop, and test complex electronic systems, collaborating across engineering disciplines to create solutions for defense and aerospace applications.

Lead hardware integration for shipboard electromechanical assemblies during TMRR, manage requirements, MBSE/Cameo review, verification/validation, integration planning, lab testing, troubleshooting, cross-functional coordination, technical reviews, trade studies, and mentor early-career engineers.