Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

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.

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.

Supports industrial automation hardware design by creating schematics, layouts, wiring drawings, bills of materials, and documentation. Collaborates with software, controls, manufacturing, and panel shop teams; troubleshoots hardware issues; verifies quality and regulatory compliance, including UL508A. Assists with industrial networking, startup, commissioning, and customer-site activities.

Leads embedded controls hardware architecture for Thermo King products, defining technology standards, roadmaps, design processes, and reusable hardware platforms. Evaluates hardware technologies, oversees PCB and electronics design, ensures cybersecurity, regulatory, quality, and functional compliance, and mentors controls engineering teams. The role requires collaboration across software, systems, product, telematics, and platform engineering teams, with up to 5% 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.

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.

Design and develop high-performance FPGA-based hardware and embedded systems for aerospace and defense applications. Responsibilities include system architecture, schematic and PCB development, component selection, signal and power integrity analysis, FPGA verification, hardware bring-up, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and regulatory compliance. The role collaborates across engineering, manufacturing, project management, product management, and customers while providing technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers.

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.

The Hardware Engineer I will assist in the hardware design process, collaborate on requirements, and support development of complex hardware systems including schematic capture and PCB layout.

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.

Designs industrial automation hardware, schematics, layouts, wiring drawings, and bills of materials. Collaborates with software, controls, manufacturing, and panel shop teams through production handoff. Performs documentation, quality verification, troubleshooting, standards compliance, networking support, and continuous improvement. Provides occasional customer-site startup and commissioning support while ensuring reliable, compliant hardware solutions.

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.

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.

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.

Support electronic hardware design for high-performance sensors from concept to production. Collaborate cross-functionally to define requirements, perform schematic capture and PCB layout, conduct hardware testing and validation, and execute worst-case circuit analyses.

Design, develop, test, and validate embedded hardware and electrical control systems for commercial HVAC equipment. Create schematics and PCBs, develop analog/digital circuits, perform hardware verification/validation, troubleshoot failures, integrate sensors and fieldbuses, support compliance testing, and collaborate across firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, and product teams.

Lead advanced hardware diagnostics and RMA lifecycle management for enterprise servers in production data centers. Perform firmware/BMC/BIOS troubleshooting, root cause analysis, vendor warranty coordination, validate replacements, develop diagnostic playbooks, and drive reliability improvements across the fleet.

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.

Lead design and delivery of industrial automation systems including control system architecture, control panel and hazardous-location panel design, PLC/HMI/SCADA/DCS integration, industrial networking, project leadership, team mentorship, and ensuring project profitability and customer relationships.

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