Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Pittsburgh, PA

Designs, manufactures, and tests spacecraft PCBs, avionics components, and integrated electrical systems. Responsibilities include component trade studies, schematic and board design, embedded and FPGA programming, test procedure development, environmental and qualification testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, systems engineering, and technical reporting. The role is hybrid in Pittsburgh and requires up to 10% travel to launch sites, customer facilities, and government centers.

Lead end-to-end hardware development for next-generation communication modules, including schematics, PCB layouts, component libraries, prototypes, test fixtures, validation, compliance testing, and in-lab or field debugging. Collaborate with firmware, systems, and mechanical engineers, maintain design documentation and databases, lead design reviews, support field-failure investigations, mentor junior engineers, and improve design processes and tooling.

Develops hardware designs, cabinet configurations, system layouts, cabling, I/O configurations, and bills of material for customer projects. Supports hardware ordering, engineering change processes, cost estimation, manufacturing efficiency, and continuous improvement. Collaborates with engineering, project management, supply chain, manufacturing, marketing, and proposals teams to deliver accurate, cost-effective solutions on schedule.

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.

Owns requirements, systems integration, and verification and validation for warehouse robotics hardware, including autonomous drones, forklift vision systems, charging, and battery systems. Responsibilities include technology evaluation, test planning and execution, environmental and compliance testing, technical budgeting, hazard analysis, failure investigation, and production test strategy. The role is hands-on and requires building test rigs, analyzing data, integrating hardware with firmware and software, and delivering objective evidence for product release.

Develop software and firmware for hardware-in-the-loop benches, including simulation interfaces, fault injection, test automation, CI integration, instrumentation, and data acquisition. Debug hardware/software interactions, support embedded and autonomy teams, analyze test data, and document results. The role requires Python and embedded C/C++/Rust, automotive CAN and Ethernet interfaces, Linux, lab equipment, and real-time testing experience.

Designs, procures, integrates, stages, tests, and troubleshoots security systems throughout the project lifecycle. Develops CAD drawings, trade studies, cost estimates, schedules, and technical documentation; coordinates vendors, technicians, stakeholders, customers, and project management. Supports Factory Acceptance Testing, reviews engineering deliverables, tracks system components, and provides schedule, cost, and risk updates. Occasional customer-site travel is required for field surveys, installation, and testing.

Lead hardware reliability efforts for autonomous vehicle systems by assessing designs, developing shock, vibration, and thermal test campaigns, analyzing failures, driving corrective actions, facilitating DFMEA, and creating predictive reliability models. Collaborate with hardware, systems, safety, software, field operations, and manufacturing teams to improve reliability across diverse environments and support mass production of automotive and optomechanical hardware.

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.

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.

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.

Leads acoustic and electroacoustic hardware development for rugged wearable audio products from concept through production. Responsibilities include system architecture, microphone and speaker selection, acoustic simulation, prototyping, measurement, validation, DSP collaboration, supplier engagement, and production readiness. The role focuses on speech intelligibility, noise cancellation, durability, PPE integration, comfort, regulatory compliance, and reliable performance across extreme temperatures, humidity, dust, vibration, ESD, RF, and high-noise industrial environments.

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 design and development of complex DoD embedded hardware (SBC, FPGA, switch, I/O) in 3U/6U VPX and custom form factors. Drive high-speed mixed-signal PCB design, thermal/power solutions (including LFT), testing, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration to meet schedule-driven program requirements and improve product performance and reliability.

Designs and leads safety-critical embedded firmware for automotive hardware safety and power systems. Responsibilities include architecting safe-state strategies, power sequencing, thermal monitoring, watchdog systems, low-level drivers, diagnostic frameworks, and HALs for ARM-based SoCs. The role requires FreeRTOS or SafeRTOS expertise, ISO 26262 ASIL-B/C knowledge, register-level debugging, hardware-software safety integration, code reviews, failure analysis, and mentoring engineers.

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.

Lead design and testing of fault-tolerant hardware interfaces for traffic controllers and sensors. Develop lab and field test plans, debug communications with vendors, integrate monitoring/alerts with RapidView, and support on-device deployment automation to expand Surtrac deployments.

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