Top Senior 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.

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 the architecture, design, integration, validation, debugging, and production release of complex PCB-based hardware for test and measurement products. Coordinate cross-functional engineering teams, guide system-level tradeoffs, identify and resolve technical risks, lead design reviews, and mentor engineers. The role requires hands-on expertise in PCB design, hardware bring-up, and high-speed, analog, mixed-signal, or RF circuitry.

Develops and validates hardware systems for Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing system validation plans, test frameworks, automation, debugging methodologies, and benchmarking tools for CPU/GPU server platforms. The role performs hands-on laboratory validation, troubleshoots hardware, firmware, driver, and operating-system issues, collaborates with OEMs and ODMs, and develops software, libraries, and drivers. It also supports DevOps activities and occasional production on-call resolution.

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.

Provides technical leadership for Azure cloud-scale distributed data platforms processing network telemetry and operational data. Defines architecture and long-term technical strategy, leads streaming and batch system design, resolves complex scalability and reliability challenges, oversees production readiness and continuous improvement, and influences cross-team technical investments. Partners across Azure Networking, conducts design reviews, establishes reusable engineering patterns, improves observability and quality, and mentors engineers and technical leaders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Design and optimize high-speed, high-density ASIC package layouts and substrate breakouts. Perform pinout optimization, routing, placement, stack-up, power distribution, CAD library development, feasibility studies, and productivity methodology improvements while collaborating with package leads and cross-functional teams.

Design and perform physical layout for silicon interposers using Cadence Virtuoso; run DRC/LVS and verification (Calibre, ICV, Thunder); perform feasibility studies, floorplanning, custom layout, and collaborate with package, SI, and technology teams to meet schedule, cost, manufacturability, and electrical goals.

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