Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Drive networking hardware development from concept through EVT, DVT, PVT, and mass production. Coordinate firmware, mechanical, supply chain, operations, and JDM partners; lead technical reviews, manage risks and dependencies, support schematic and component decisions, resolve build issues, and ensure manufacturing readiness. The role requires hands-on technical problem solving, cross-functional leadership, and travel to Taiwan to collaborate with manufacturing and design teams.

Lead the mechanical, electrical, and systems design of robotics subsystems from prototype through production. Direct a small team of hardware engineers, make architecture decisions, integrate controls and sensors, manage BOMs and suppliers, reduce costs, and improve field reliability. The role requires regular travel between a San Francisco robotics facility and a West Texas deployment site to resolve failures and implement design fixes.

Design and integrate hardware interfaces for autonomous heavy equipment, including brackets, enclosures, wiring, sensors, and compute systems. Build test stands, conduct lab validation, capture data, iterate on designs, fabricate and install components, document procedures, and collaborate with field teams. The role requires hands-on shop skills, CAD proficiency, basic electrical knowledge, and comfort working around heavy equipment in PPE.

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.

Support the design, integration, characterization, testing, and validation of autonomous hardware systems for construction equipment. Evaluate components, write Python, C++, C, or Rust scripts for sensor data analysis and test automation, run tests, collect data, and document results. The intern will work with embedded compute platforms, autonomous sensors, communication protocols, and hardware integration under senior engineer guidance.

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.

Designs and maintains high-speed digital hardware for Nokia Service Router products. Responsibilities include ultra-high-speed PCB circuit design, simulation, verification testing, board bring-up, laboratory debugging, and taking complex board designs from concept through production release. The role requires collaboration with engineering teams, ownership of hardware integrity, and practical use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and digital debugging tools.

Design and validate research hardware for human and animal neuroscience experiments, including ultrasound systems, electrophysiology implants, headstage interfaces, circuit boards, and test rigs. Translate scientific needs into requirements, guide external engineering partners, improve device portability and robustness, determine what to build internally, manage contractors, and prepare documented, reproducible platforms for outside researchers.

Owns hardware-level functional safety and system-level sensor safety for cameras, LiDAR, and radar. Responsibilities include reviewing supplier documentation for SEooC and AoU alignment, validating ASIL compliance, executing board-level FMEDA for FPGAs and microcontrollers, defining diagnostic monitoring requirements, and supporting SOTIF simulation and physical testing for perception edge cases. Requires an engineering degree, at least three years of hardware experience, and knowledge of ISO 26262 and SOTIF.

Owns the hardware lifecycle for GPU and infrastructure assets, including fleet health monitoring, vendor RMA workflows, firmware and BIOS upgrades, burn-in testing, failure investigation, inventory accuracy, capacity planning, spare-parts strategy, runbook creation, and new platform qualification. The role serves as the technical owner of physical compute platforms and supports high-density GPU infrastructure across sites.

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.

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.

The Hardware Engineer will design, integrate, and validate hardware for autonomous machines, working on system architecture and collaborating with engineers and vendors.

The Hardware Engineer focuses on test execution and infrastructure development, designing test setups, custom testing assets, and documenting test plans and reviews.

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.

As a Hardware Engineer, you will develop and execute hardware testing, collaborate with various teams, and create documentation and test setups.

The Hardware Engineer will develop, test, and document electronic systems, work with procurement, and manage test infrastructure projects, utilizing various engineering tools and technologies.

Lead the hardware engineering team to develop and produce agricultural technology hardware, manage manufacturing operations, and ensure design quality while collaborating cross-functionally.

Lead system- and board-level design for hyperscaler switches: define specs, create schematics/PCB, FPGA/ASIC design and bring-up, debug high-speed interfaces, coordinate across ASIC, SI, software, diagnostics, manufacturing, and supplier teams to resolve design issues.

The Hardware Engineer designs and develops custom hardware solutions for autonomous vehicles, oversees vendor operations, and ensures compliance with industry standards.

Co-design hardware for AI workloads, optimize ML platform code, develop system performance models, and collaborate with engineers and vendors to influence hardware design.

As a Hardware Engineer, design hardware for autonomous construction equipment, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and manufacturing processes while collaborating with software engineers.

As a Senior Hardware Engineer, you will define processor architecture, implement microarchitecture in SystemC/SystemVerilog, and optimize PPA across design cycles.

Design and implement micro-architecture and RTL for low-power DSPs and hardware accelerators, optimize hardware/software interfaces, model and profile energy/performance trade-offs, collaborate on silicon bring-up and verification, and develop emulation models and test environments.

The Principal Engineer, Hardware will lead design, integration, and manufacturing of autonomous vehicle systems, ensuring reliability and compliance with safety standards across mechanical and electrical disciplines.