Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Portland, OR

Lead failure analysis and root-cause corrective actions for networking hardware issues from field and factory sources. Analyze quality metrics, debug complex board- and system-level hardware, review new-product test reports, and drive quality improvements, change management, and multisourcing activities. Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, operations, customer support, vendors, and customers. Provide technical leadership, document lessons learned, and mentor junior engineers.

Perform deep technical teardown and architectural analysis of AI/datacenter hardware (GPUs, CPUs, ASICs). Drive sample preparation, failure analysis, use FIB/SEM/X-ray tools, interpret design/process trade-offs (DTCO/STCO), co-author research, and expand lab capabilities and tooling.

Develop and maintain transistor-level timing characterization flows for custom IP, memories, SRAMs, register files, and compiler-generated macros. Build CAD infrastructure, automation, and validation methodologies for timing, power, and noise models. Collaborate with circuit design, memory, STA, methodology, and EDA vendor teams. Support hardware design, verification, integration, layout, and timing development for advanced semiconductor technology nodes.

Lead architecture, design, validation, and troubleshooting of DC-DC power delivery systems for compute, storage, and AI platforms. Drive component qualification, EMI/thermal/reliability testing, supplier and ODM collaboration, root-cause analysis, and mentor junior engineers while influencing product architecture and roadmaps.

Leads enterprise HDD qualification for Azure-scale deployments, translating requirements into validation strategies and automated test suites. Analyzes failures using traces, logs, telemetry, and diagnostics; partners with suppliers on debugging and corrective actions; drives reliability, security, performance, interoperability, and serviceability improvements. Coordinates cross-functional technical initiatives, advances qualification methodologies, influences industry standards, and mentors engineers.

Leads multi-generation architecture and delivery of complex network switch hardware for Azure AI infrastructure. Owns requirements, board and system design, validation, manufacturing readiness, supplier execution, and resolution of complex electrical and platform issues. Provides technical authority across ASICs, CPUs, BMCs, high-speed Ethernet, power delivery, signal integrity, telemetry, and management interfaces while driving cross-functional reviews, mentoring engineers, and influencing ODM/OEM partners.

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.

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.

Lead Azure hardware platform validation and debugging from post-silicon bring-up through production deployment. Develop validation strategies, automation, tooling, and qualification processes; investigate complex hardware, firmware, operating system, driver, and cloud-service issues; and drive corrective actions. Collaborate across architecture, security, manufacturing, performance, and infrastructure teams to improve platform availability, reliability, performance, observability, and operational scale.

Leads system validation for Azure cloud hardware solutions, including validation architecture, test frameworks, automation, test plans, debugging, defect triage, and quality metrics. Collaborates with engineering teams, ODMs, technology providers, and customers to validate CPU/GPU platforms and resolve fleet-level issues. Drives standardized testing and data-quality improvements, develops custom validation and debug tools, and mentors validation engineers. The role requires extensive server hardware validation experience and expertise in hardware, firmware, operating system interactions, and system-level troubleshooting.

Architects and validates DC/DC power delivery systems for compute, storage, and AI platforms. Leads multiphase regulator and point-of-load converter design, simulation, integration, testing, bring-up, and troubleshooting. Guides power architecture, component selection, risk mitigation, supplier qualification, and root-cause analysis. Collaborates with ODMs, suppliers, and cross-functional engineering teams while influencing product roadmaps and mentoring engineers.

Leads storage hardware qualification and validation for Microsoft Azure data centers. Responsibilities include developing qualification frameworks, reliability and telemetry strategies, debugging complex hardware, firmware, operating system, driver, and cloud-service issues, and coordinating with OEMs, ODMs, and silicon partners. The role drives production readiness, root-cause investigations, automation, technical reviews, and continuous process improvement while providing technical leadership to team members.

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.

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.

Design and develop high-speed, high-density ASIC package layouts and IC substrates. Responsibilities include substrate breakout, pin assignment optimization, routing, placement, stack-up, power distribution, CAD library development, feasibility studies, and resolving manufacturing, cost, and electrical issues using Cadence tools.

Design and develop physical layouts for silicon interposers used in NVIDIA products. Collaborate with package technical leads, signal integrity and technology engineers, and design teams to deliver package solutions. Conduct feasibility studies, floorplanning, custom layout, design-rule and netlist verification, and layout trade-off analysis. Resolve manufacturing, electrical, cost, and scheduling issues while using Cadence tools and verification flows such as DRC and LVS.

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.

Design and develop embedded hardware platforms using Intel processors, ARM-based SoCs, and FPGA fabric. Create schematics, select components, support multilayer PCB layout, and conduct signal and power integrity analysis. Lead hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, manufacturing support, and technical documentation. Design basic power converters, improve engineering processes, and mentor early-career engineers while ensuring manufacturability, reliability, compliance, and quality-system alignment.

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.

Design and architect hardware systems, perform trade-off analysis, develop and verify RTL, integrate and verify memory controllers and PHYs, and support customer deliveries. The role requires ASIC or FPGA design expertise, scripting and simulation experience, and collaboration with engineering and customer teams. Preferred experience includes synthesis, timing constraints, CDC/RDC, memory technologies, and AMBA protocols.