Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in St. Louis, MO

Lead the design and development of avionics hardware for fighter mission systems, manage suppliers, and support integration and testing processes.

Designs and documents Vehicle Management System hardware, electrical requirements, interfaces, and system architectures. Leads requirements decomposition and traceability, develops test and validation approaches, troubleshoots hardware and software integration issues, and supports product lifecycle sustainment. Coordinates suppliers, test laboratories, and multidisciplinary engineering teams while monitoring supplier performance and investigating emerging technologies for future aircraft programs.

Designs and develops Vehicle Management System hardware, electronic and electrical requirements, system architectures, interfaces, and technical specifications. Leads requirements decomposition and traceability, test and validation planning, integration troubleshooting, supplier coordination, and lifecycle sustainment. Investigates emerging technologies, monitors supplier compliance, coordinates cross-disciplinary engineering and test labs, mentors junior engineers, and improves technical processes and standards. The role is fully onsite and supports aircraft development programs.

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.

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.

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.

Debug and resolve complex hardware/software issues for manufacturing test stations. Lead commissioning and release-to-manufacturing of opto-electrical test stations, improve test uptime, provide documentation and support to contract manufacturers and vendors, coordinate equipment RFQs/RMAs, and use AI tools for data analysis.

Provides technical leadership and customer support for Marvell switching, PHY, and processor SoC products. Architects hardware solutions, investigates and reproduces hardware and software issues, performs schematic reviews, debugs boot sequencing and customer-reported problems, and supports Linux BSPs, U-Boot, device drivers, and board designs. Serves as a liaison among customers, Avnet field applications engineers, and Marvell engineering teams, while delivering training and occasional customer-site support.

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