Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Portland, OR

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Lead architecture, bring-up, validation, optimization, and deployment of networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference. Define networking requirements, design Layer 3/4 and RDMA/AI fabric solutions, develop validation and observability tooling, perform packet-level debugging and root-cause analysis, and collaborate across silicon, firmware, software, and Azure teams to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of hyperscale AI clusters.

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.

Develops platform hardware from system requirements through schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, debugging, validation, and customer delivery. The role defines components and routing rules, evaluates BOM costs and design tradeoffs, ensures hardware-software compatibility, performs electrical and mixed-signal design activities, and leads power-on and system debug efforts. It requires cross-functional collaboration with architects, verification, manufacturing, project management, and technical 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.

Drive architecture and development of datacenter systems from chip-level components through full-scale deployments. Collaborate across silicon, software, networking, operations, suppliers, procurement, and customers to evaluate performance, power, cost, hardware, thermal, and mechanical tradeoffs. Lead multidisciplinary teams, guide product strategy, monitor competitive solutions, and execute systems from concept through production. The role requires deep hardware and server architecture expertise, plus experience spanning software and hardware.

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.

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.

Design and validate PCB-based analog, mixed-signal, and digital hardware for test and measurement products. Responsibilities include schematic capture, PCB layout support, signal integrity analysis, board bring-up, laboratory testing, debugging, documentation, and collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role also supports manufacturing and sustaining engineering activities, including troubleshooting production and field issues.

Develop and maintain full-chip physical implementation flows for SoC designs, including floorplanning, partitioning, hierarchical block integration, placement and routing coordination, power grid planning and IR analysis, CTS strategy integration, and scalable multi-block/multi-power-domain assembly methodologies using Innovus.

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.