Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads cross-functional cloud, datacenter, hardware, and infrastructure engineering activities. Manages Agile delivery through Jira, sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and milestone tracking. Translates customer requirements into infrastructure designs, acceptance criteria, technical documentation, and delivery plans. Provides technical mentorship, oversees integration and implementation, and ensures configuration management, change control, traceability, budgeting, and earned value management. The role is full-time onsite with up to 25% travel and requires active Top Secret clearance plus eligibility for SCI and SAP clearances.

Designs and documents ground equipment, cable routing, rack assemblies, and hardware interconnects using CATIA V5 and Teamcenter PLM. Supports hardware and software integration, engineering change requests, audits, production and development activities, installation, failure analysis, and iterative hardware builds. The role also provides technical coordination among maintenance, design engineering, test teams, contractors, and customers, while requiring government clearance and occasional off-shift work.

Design complex digital boards using high-end SoC FPGAs, high-speed interfaces, microprocessors, and power supplies. Perform signal and power integrity analysis using simulation tools, support EMC certification, and apply military and space hardware design experience. The role is hybrid in San Diego and offered on a contract-to-potential-permanent basis.

Own hardware architecture, schematic design, validation, debugging, and production support for processor-based wireless products, including 5G hotspots and fixed wireless access devices. Design digital and mixed-signal subsystems, power and connectivity interfaces, and support PCB reviews, compliance, manufacturing, certification, and sustaining activities. Collaborate across engineering and supplier teams, lead complex development projects, troubleshoot hardware issues, and mentor junior engineers.

Support and maintain engineering workspace platforms (Windows VDI, Citrix, Linux HPC), provide first-line support to engineering users, deploy and validate simulation applications, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated functional testing, drive automation and modernization initiatives, monitor performance, and collaborate with global DevOps and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and scalability.