Top Remote Hardware Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

Define system and technical requirements for fault-tolerant quantum computing across hardware, software, and firmware. Develop real-time quantum error correction and calibration approaches, perform systems analysis across qubit modalities, and create and review test cases. Collaborate with product, research, engineering, and external partner teams to advance quantum control systems, quantum computing products, and related NVIDIA technologies.

Develop client requirements, architect software solutions, estimate project work, identify risks and mitigation strategies, and prepare technical proposal content. The role involves presenting solution approaches, partitioning programs, collaborating across hardware and embedded engineering teams, supporting product and R&D opportunities, and undertaking project work. Candidates should have substantial embedded software design experience, system-level architecture expertise, FPGA and hardware knowledge, strong communication skills, and willingness to travel within North America.

Provides technical expertise across complex hardware, software, systems, configuration, security, and network administration environments. Resolves technology issues, supports multiple systems, leads large projects, and contributes to change, outage, and implementation activities. Mentors junior staff and supports management through analysis and interpretation of complex information. Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, seven years in IT or engineering, strong analytical and communication skills, and knowledge of capital planning and forecasting. Remote work requires residence within 50 miles of a FedEx Freight location, with some travel.

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.

Leads manufacturing engineering and supplier performance for sourced hardware. Coordinates multifunctional teams, resolves technical and delivery issues, guides supplier improvements, drives cost reduction, supports supplier selection and source changes, and develops underperforming suppliers. Provides expertise across machining and manufacturing processes while managing complex supplier projects and frequent supplier travel.

Manage manufacturing engineering performance across assigned suppliers, coordinate cross-functional delivery improvement projects, resolve technical and delivery issues, guide supplier performance, drive cost reductions, support supplier selection and source changes, and develop lower-performing suppliers. The role requires deep expertise in machining and manufacturing processes, supplier operations, production control, and technical project leadership.

Leads manufacturing engineering for assigned aerospace suppliers, owning technical performance, resolving delivery and manufacturing issues, coordinating cross-functional delivery projects, and improving supplier performance. Provides expertise across machining and production processes, supports supplier selection and source changes, drives cost reduction, and develops underperforming suppliers. The role requires frequent supplier travel and collaboration with sourcing, quality, commercial, fulfillment, and production teams.

Manage manufacturing engineering performance for assigned suppliers, coordinate cross-functional delivery improvement projects, resolve technical and production issues, guide supplier performance, drive cost reductions, support supplier selection and source changes, and develop underperforming suppliers. The role requires expertise across machining and manufacturing processes, supplier operations, production control, and complex aerospace or automotive manufacturing environments.

Define the hardware platform strategy and roadmap for an AI-native smartphone. Evaluate mobile SoCs, NPUs, components, power, thermal performance, connectivity, and memory capabilities. Translate product and AI requirements into hardware specifications, assess vendor and ODM proposals, establish validation criteria, and determine whether commercial platforms or custom hardware are needed for current and future on-device AI workloads.

Designs, develops, assembles, tests, and supports computer hardware and peripherals. Responsibilities include analyzing system requirements, evaluating hardware/software interfaces, building prototypes, verifying equipment, documenting configurations and test results, selecting materials, monitoring performance, and providing technical support, training, and implementation guidance. The role requires at least three years of directly related technical experience and is remote within the United States.

Lead end-to-end hardware development for next-generation communication modules, including schematics, PCB layouts, component libraries, prototypes, test fixtures, validation, compliance testing, and in-lab or field debugging. Collaborate with firmware, systems, and mechanical engineers, maintain design documentation and databases, lead design reviews, support field-failure investigations, mentor junior engineers, and improve design processes and tooling.

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 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.

Performs physical mask layout for mixed-signal circuits including PLLs, high-speed SerDes, ADCs, and ESD structures in submicron CMOS technologies. Collaborates with ASIC and mixed-signal engineers on VLSI integration, floor planning, custom layout, and design verification. Uses Cadence tools and verification flows, debugs DRC/LVS issues, customizes verification decks, and applies scripting skills in Perl, Python, and SKILL.

Create and evaluate rigorous hardware engineering problems based on realistic industry or research scenarios. Develop independently verifiable reference solutions using calculations, simulations, scripts, experiments, and engineering software. The role requires substantial hardware engineering, product development, systems integration, testing, validation, reliability, or failure analysis experience, plus demonstrated ownership of significant technical work and coding agent experience.

Leads configuration management for complex information systems and hardware/software components. Maintains configuration baselines, records, and technical documentation; advises Configuration Control Boards; evaluates engineering changes; supports audits; and coordinates with quality assurance and management to ensure controlled, accurate product baselines.

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.

Design compact connected hardware from concept through prototyping and validation for IoT devices. Optimize for connectivity, energy efficiency, durability, usability, and manufacturability. Collaborate with software and engineering teams, participate in design reviews, and apply current hardware design trends and tools.

Lead hardware engineering for IoT devices focusing on PCB design, embedded firmware, and low-power long-range communications (LoRaWAN and Sub-GHz). Manage multidisciplinary teams, ensure regulatory compliance and interoperability, optimize power consumption and network performance for industrial LPWAN deployments, and drive technical strategy for scalable, reliable connected devices.

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.

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 and maintains mainframe hardware, including microcode, processor, storage, DASD, and tape configurations. Handles migrations, replication, disaster recovery, incident resolution, vendor escalations, and 24/7 on-call service restoration. Develops automation, tools, documentation, and standardized processes while supporting multiple clients in a leveraged environment. Performs ITIL change management, provides technical consulting, analyzes subsystem performance, and mentors team members.

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.