Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs in Raleigh, NC

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Lead SI/PI technical work for next-generation ASIC packaging: define design rules, run pre/post-layout SI/PI simulations, analyze substrate SI/PI, collaborate with layout and system teams, mentor engineers, and drive packaging design and validation for high-performance ASICs.

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