Top Remote Hardware Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lead architecture, development, testing, qualification, and production planning for a field-deployed combustion hardware system. Own mechanical, thermal, fluid, structural, controls, and instrumentation engineering; manage external engineering and manufacturing partners; oversee documentation, supplier packages, budgets, schedules, and technical quality; and build a hardware engineering team. The role requires hands-on work across prototypes, field operations, failure analysis, and transition to production-scale manufacturing.

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.

Leads the multidisciplinary Integrated Sensor engineering organization across hardware, embedded and edge software, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. Sets technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and product delivery processes while scaling reliable systems for nationwide field deployment. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, coordinating hardware and software development, improving testing and operational resilience, resolving field issues, and partnering with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and company leadership.

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.

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.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.