Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

The Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer ensures product reliability through planning, testing, and collaboration across engineering and operations. Responsibilities include leading investigations, analyzing failure data, and designing reliability strategies throughout the product lifecycle.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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 Staff Hardware Design Engineer designs hardware infrastructure for Fastly, collaborating with teams to ensure scalable and performant systems. Responsibilities include developing specs, guiding hardware selection, overseeing testing, and mentoring junior engineers.

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.

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

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.

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.

Design, test, and validate next-generation server hardware and components for performance, power, and reliability. Diagnose and resolve hardware issues across engineering and manufacturing, document results, and develop/maintain test scripts. Collaborate with internal teams and OEM/ODM partners to scale platforms for global deployment.

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.

Lead development and ownership of hardware test and qualification programs across DVT, production validation, and certification. Design and document reliability test suites, execute environmental/mechanical/electrical/EMC/lifetime tests, analyze data for margins and failure trends, manage external certification labs, perform field failure triage and root cause analysis, and build business cases and equipment procurement. Hire and mentor a growing test engineering team.

The Senior Package Layout Engineer will collaborate with teams to design IC substrates, optimize layouts, and improve productivity using Cadence tools.

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.