Top Entry Level Hardware Engineer Jobs in Phoenix, AZ

Designs and evaluates electrical, electronic, and electromechanical components for high-reliability aerospace hardware. Responsibilities include component selection and validation, failure investigations, part assessments, specification review, qualification requirements, obsolescence analysis, compliance communication, and technical collaboration with engineering teams and suppliers. The role supports hardware design, testing, and continuous improvement while ensuring components meet customer and reliability requirements.

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.

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 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.

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.