Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

Leads the design, simulation, testing, troubleshooting, and production release of RF and analog circuits operating from 400 MHz to 6 GHz. Responsibilities include designing amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, filters, PLLs, matching networks, and DC power supplies; conducting design reviews, reliability analyses, and root-cause corrective actions; supporting RF testing and customer link-margin analysis; and coordinating cross-functional development teams.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Designs and develops FPGA SmartNIC networking acceleration for Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include hardware architecture evaluation, RTL coding in Verilog/SystemVerilog, simulation, hardware testing, debugging, verification, scripting, software development, Agile collaboration, and production DevOps support. The role partners across hardware and software teams to deliver cloud networking infrastructure, including SDN capabilities, packet manipulation, and performance improvements.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.