Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Manage and integrate complex systems, providing communications solutions, maintaining cloud infrastructure, assessing systems, and leading technical programs while ensuring compliance and data security.

The Sr. Network Engineer plans and performs network engineering research and supervises a team of network engineers on complex projects.

Lead hardware operations and manufacturing for VotingWorks, oversee engineering and design, manage production scale-up, and enhance product quality standards.

Lead and own hardware engineering: define strategy and roadmaps, manage full hardware lifecycle (IoT, CV, POS, KDS), drive R&D and edge compute platforms, manage procurement/OEM/vendor relations, ensure QA, regulatory compliance, hardware security, and cross-functional alignment.

The Senior Solution Delivery Architect is responsible for configuring and supporting mainframe hardware, managing migrations, and leading hardware upgrades for clients.

Design and lead development of hardware architectures for satellite communications and ground stations. Drive integration, verification, environmental and EMC testing, root-cause analysis, and hardware qualification. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, mentor junior engineers, produce technical documentation, and contribute to technology roadmaps while ensuring aerospace industry compliance.

Lead on-site technical authority for datacenter hardware reliability and fleet health. Troubleshoot complex hardware failures, drive root cause analysis and corrective actions, coordinate with vendors and cloud providers, establish maintenance standards and runbooks, support new hardware introductions and spare parts strategy, mentor technicians, and analyze failure trends to improve reliability across large-scale GPU and server deployments.

Lead the development of hardware platforms, collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensure design compliance, and mentor junior engineers in hardware development.

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.

The Sr. Hardware Design Engineer leads ASIC and FPGA projects, defining architecture, guiding RTL development, and mentoring junior engineers to deliver high-quality silicon solutions.

The Hardware Design Engineer will develop and verify digital designs using SystemVerilog, support hardware bring-up, and collaborate with teams.

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.

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

As a Senior Hardware Engineer, you'll drive DPU integration into server platforms, execute validation testing, and develop automation for data analysis while collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors.