Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

As a Founding Hardware Engineer, you'll lead the design and development of robust hardware for aviation environments, ensuring reliable data streaming and regulatory compliance.

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.

The Principal Hardware Engineer will lead the design of hardware systems for a satellite communications platform, focusing on power distribution, signal integrity, and PCB design, while ensuring high-reliability and fault tolerance in space environments.

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

As a Hardware Engineer, design and build a neural network accelerator, focusing on RTL design, verification, and collaboration with team members for functional correctness and performance.

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

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

Designs and executes hardware test strategies for wireless power products. Develops test specs, fixtures, and software; performs component-level troubleshooting; validates product and fixture qualification; documents results and reports issues to stakeholders.

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.

Own hardware platform end-to-end: evaluate and qualify x86/ARM compute and networking components; bring up and tune Linux for real-time, safety-critical workloads; build fleet health, diagnostics, and observability tooling; implement platform security (Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, disk encryption); design and execute hardware validation campaigns and maintain hardware compatibility matrix.

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

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

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.

Design and own an automated hardware test rig integrated with CI/CD to build, flash, run, and report tests for a wearable AI device. Implement connectivity and throughput stress tests, long-duration audio and battery/thermal characterization, API-level tests, dashboards with regression flags, diagnostic tooling, and automation-driven bug triage. Establish nightly and weekly runs and partner with firmware to define automated vs. manual coverage.

The Hardware Test Engineer will design and conduct tests for hardware systems, analyze results, and communicate findings effectively. Responsibilities include automating tests, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring reliability in mechanical and electrical performance.

Lead hardware test and reliability efforts for autonomous drones: define and execute validation strategies from prototype to production, perform failure analysis, drive corrective actions, contribute design-for-reliability, and use telemetry and data (Python/SQL/AI) to develop prognostics and reliability specs.

Design and integrate hardware systems for residential energy applications, focusing on battery management and inverter systems, while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

The Hardware Reliability Engineer will oversee reliability testing for Skip's wearable devices, manage FMEA, perform environmental stress testing, and lead root cause analyses to ensure product performance in real-world conditions.

Design and execute hardware validation test plans, build fixtures, automate test campaigns in Python on Linux, run ALT/HALT and environmental stress tests, perform root-cause analysis across mechanical, electrical, and firmware domains, and support EVT/DVT/PVT builds and reliability testing.

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.

Design and validate next-generation network switches: create system block diagrams, review schematics/layouts, perform hardware bring-up, debugging, validation, and yield bring-up with ODM/JDM partners. Collaborate with ASIC and component suppliers, software teams, and cross-functional groups through NPI to production and sustainment.

The Hardware Systems Engineer will lead interdisciplinary projects on the development and optimization of Mill's food recycling technology, focusing on system performance and collaboration with various engineering teams.

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 role involves managing hardware product quality issues, leading root cause analysis, driving corrective actions, and collaborating with various teams to improve product quality and reliability.