Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

Develop and deliver electrical and hardware designs for industrial field instruments, including transmitters, gas detection equipment, sensors, and measuring systems. Responsibilities include schematic development, circuit analysis, component selection, PCB design, verification testing, technical documentation, and collaboration with manufacturing, simulation, supply chain, and external testing teams. The role also applies value and component engineering principles to identify lower-cost designs while meeting performance, certification, and manufacturing requirements.

Develop electrical and hardware designs for industrial field instruments, including sensors, transmitters, detectors, and measurement systems. Responsibilities include schematic development, circuit analysis, component selection, verification testing, PCB design, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration. The engineer will apply value and component engineering principles to identify lower-cost solutions while maintaining performance, compliance, manufacturability, and certification requirements. The role requires expertise in analog and digital electronics, sensors, signal conditioning, microcontroller interfacing, communication protocols, EMI/EMC testing, and new product introduction.

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.

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.

Designs, debugs, verifies, and documents electrical hardware for wearable medical devices. Responsibilities include schematic and PCB development, BOM creation, RF and antenna design, power management, manufacturing transfer, testing, certification, electrical safety, EMC compliance, RoHS compliance, and hardware improvement projects. The role collaborates with contract manufacturers, certification laboratories, and internal engineering and manufacturing teams.

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.

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 mixed-signal PWB and complex hardware system design (analog, digital, power, FPGA/microcontroller), define technical solutions, direct validation and test, produce engineering documentation, and coordinate cross-functional teams to resolve high-impact design issues and ensure manufacturability and standards compliance.

The Lead Hardware Engineer designs and develops hardware, evaluates optical/RF components, coordinates with firmware and manufacturing, and supports customers.

Leads hardware design and development for optical and RF transceiver modules, including analog and digital design, simulation, PCB layout, verification testing, troubleshooting, and hardware architecture. Documents digital control requirements for firmware teams, coordinates development across engineering and manufacturing groups, supports customers and field personnel, and provides technical training. The role requires onsite laboratory testing with a hybrid option and limited travel between company sites.

Collaborate with hardware and software engineering to develop and maintain traffic sensor systems, improve operations, and enhance security and performance.

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.

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.

Design and develop system and PCB architectures from concept through production for high-performance networking platforms. Select components, create schematics and design files, support layout, debug system-level issues, assist software integration, and support testing, compliance, and manufacturing transfer.

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