Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Phoenix, AZ

Designs, develops, integrates, and qualifies electronic test hardware for aerospace products, including circuit card assemblies, printed board assemblies, subassemblies, and line replaceable units. Defines digital, analog, power, FPGA, and mixed-signal test architectures; supports PCB layout, board bring-up, validation, ATE integration, troubleshooting, and production deployment. Leads test hardware efforts across concurrent programs, drives design-for-testability, supports root-cause investigations, and mentors junior engineers.

Leads advanced aerospace hardware design from concept through production for next-generation Head-Up Display systems. Responsibilities include schematic capture, PCB design support, hardware validation, troubleshooting, debugging, root-cause analysis, design verification, regulatory compliance, and collaboration with software and systems engineering teams. Provides technical leadership and mentorship while ensuring products meet customer, aerospace, and export-control requirements.

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.

Lead advanced aerospace hardware design from concept through production for Honeywell Anthem displays. Responsibilities include schematic capture, PCB design support, analog and digital circuit development, hardware validation, troubleshooting, debugging, root-cause analysis, design verification, qualification, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also provides technical leadership and mentorship while ensuring compliance with aerospace standards including DO-254 and DO-160.

Supports the design and development of aerospace hardware systems, including schematic capture and PCB layout. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define hardware requirements, assists with testing and validation, troubleshoots design issues, and helps ensure product reliability, performance, and compliance with aerospace standards.

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 validates electrical and electronic components, subsystems, integrated circuitry, and hardware solutions. Develops test plans covering tolerances, form, fit, function, shock, vibration, EMI, safety, reliability, thermal performance, and power. Performs feasibility, margin, validation, modeling, and empirical analyses; collaborates with internal and outsourced engineering partners; evaluates production reliability and supports prototype fabrication for reliable, cost-effective products.

Lead design, validation, and production transition of avionics hardware (HUD). Own circuit and PCB design, verification, integration, troubleshooting, certification support, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring regulatory and manufacturing readiness.

Lead hardware engineering for airborne traffic, collision avoidance, and surveillance avionics. Oversee board, FPGA, PCB, mechanical teams; create and trace requirements in DOORS; lead hardware verification and validation; manage customer interactions and production transfers; ensure DO-160/DO-254 compliance; mentor engineers and troubleshoot complex issues.

Leads the design, development, qualification, testing, and production of custom space electronics. Serves as the technical customer contact and coordinates cross-functional engineering teams. Manages requirements, budgets, schedules, risks, technical execution, verification, and project documentation. Authors analyses, reports, and test procedures; troubleshoots electronic failures; and leads nonconformance, failure review, root-cause, and corrective-action activities. The role supports onsite 24/7 testing campaigns and requires eligibility for a U.S. DoD security clearance.

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.

Design, develop, test, and maintain the FireAnt UGV’s primary PCBA across its full lifecycle. Responsibilities include mixed-signal and power circuit design, multilayer PCB layout, embedded STM32 firmware, power management, board bring-up, system integration, environmental validation, fault telemetry, manufacturing support, and field failure resolution. The engineer will collaborate with mechanical, software, and manufacturing teams to deliver reliable electronics for autonomous defense robotics.

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.

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.

Designs and develops PCB layouts for hardware development tools, including high-speed digital, mixed-signal, and power electronics. Ensures manufacturability, testability, safety, signal integrity, thermal performance, EMC, and RoHS compliance. Maintains PCB, schematic, BOM, drawing, and assembly documentation; creates component libraries and manufacturing outputs; and coordinates with PCB vendors and contract manufacturers.

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.

Lead design and development of ruggedized board-level hardware for defense/aerospace systems. Architect high-speed digital boards (FPGAs, secure processing, PCIe, DDR5, 400G Ethernet), establish design standards, ensure manufacturability and verification, support proposals, and mentor engineering teams through production.

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.

Design and develop board-level digital circuits and embedded hardware from concept through production for aerospace and defense platforms. Implement high-speed interfaces, collaborate on PCB layout and DFM/DFT, troubleshoot digital/analog/power circuits, and support manufacturing and verification activities.

Lead board-level design of ruggedized, high-speed digital hardware from concept through production for defense/aerospace systems. Architect FPGA and CPU-based solutions, ensure signal integrity and manufacturability, establish design standards, support proposals, and collaborate with manufacturing for DFM/DFT.