Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

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.

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 role involves designing complex embedded hardware for motion control applications, collaborating with a multi-discipline team to develop advanced servo drive technology and ICT systems.

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.

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.