Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Raleigh, NC

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.

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, develops, tests, and supports hardware and firmware security technologies across Cisco products. Responsibilities include HDL design and verification, board bring-up and lab debugging, hardware architecture reviews, security solution deployment, proof-of-concept development, documentation, scripting, threat evaluation, and advising product teams on embedded hardware security. Requires collaboration across concurrent initiatives and ongoing investigation of evolving security technologies.

Designs and develops mechanical and thermal hardware, electronics enclosures, production tooling, and related solutions. Creates test plans and validates tolerances, form, fit, function, shock, vibration, EMI, safety, reliability, acoustics, and thermal performance. Collaborates with internal and outsourced engineering partners to deliver reliable, cost-effective mechanical designs for moderately complex products.

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 develops advanced electronic hardware and test equipment for process automation products. Responsibilities include defining requirements, conducting feasibility studies, evaluating technologies, testing and validating hardware, ensuring compliance, and mentoring junior engineers. The role collaborates with R&D and software teams and supports equipment deployment to manufacturing sites, with approximately 15% travel.

Designs and develops advanced electronic hardware and test equipment for process automation products. Responsibilities include defining requirements, conducting feasibility studies, evaluating technologies, performing hardware testing and validation, collaborating with software and R&D teams, and mentoring junior engineers. The role supports equipment used to calibrate and test water, gas, and electricity meters, with approximately 15% travel to manufacturing or Honeywell 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.

Designs and develops hardware boards and systems for Cisco routing products, spanning architecture, schematic design, development, bring-up, validation, testing, qualification, and production readiness. Collaborates with software, diagnostics, manufacturing, marketing, and test teams. Requires extensive experience with x86 or ARM processors, DDR memory, high-speed interfaces, signal integrity, power distribution, Ethernet, FPGA technologies, and schematic capture tools.

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.

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.

Assist with server subsystem design and validation, verify designs against functional specifications, create technical documentation and Python test scripts, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The intern will use hardware lab equipment and may work with Cadence design tools to help deliver quality products on schedule.

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.

Supports hardware product development from circuit and ASIC design through system design, validation, testing, and high-volume manufacturing. Responsibilities may include board design, circuit layout, signal integrity, power design, automation, and debugging. Requires enrollment in an eligible education or workforce program and foundational hardware engineering experience. Preferred capabilities include scripting, data analysis, collaboration across engineering and manufacturing teams, task prioritization, communication, and technical problem-solving.

Develop and execute hardware verification, validation, reliability, environmental, mechanical, electrical, and RF testing. Build test fixtures and automated solutions, analyze failures, predict product life, support regulatory compliance, and recommend corrective actions. Collaborate with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Product Management, and Firmware teams while applying DFMEA, root cause analysis, data-driven improvement, and Six Sigma methods to smart metering and IoT products.

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.

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.

Provides quality assurance and staging services for POS hardware and OEM products. Develops cost-effective quotes, BOMs, engineering changes, routing documents, packaging solutions, and production processes. Reviews customer documentation, validates line build readiness, coordinates pilot runs, approves first article inspections, and supports quality investigations, substitutions, shipping issues, and manufacturing inquiries.

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.

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.