Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Huntsville, AL

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

Owns the hardware lifecycle for GPU and infrastructure assets, including fleet health monitoring, vendor RMA workflows, firmware and BIOS upgrades, burn-in testing, failure investigation, inventory accuracy, capacity planning, spare-parts strategy, runbook creation, and new platform qualification. The role serves as the technical owner of physical compute platforms and supports high-density GPU infrastructure across sites.

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.

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.

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.

Lead standardization strategy for optical transport and Ethernet technologies, develop and advocate contributions to standards bodies (ITU‑T, IEEE, OIF, OpenROADM), coordinate with PLMs and R&D, report progress internally, provide technical influence and guidance, and represent Nokia at standards meetings and industry events.

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.

Designs, develops, tests, and oversees manufacture of PCBs, analog/digital circuits, sensors, motors, and radar/navigation hardware. Architects circuits, performs simulations and layouts, builds and debugs prototypes, prepares manufacturing documentation, mentors junior engineers, and supports testing, deployment, sustainment, and proposals.

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.

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.

The Software Test Engineer will develop embedded and application software, collaborate with teams, ensure product specifications, and present project updates.

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