Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Lead planning and execution of reliability testing for wearable hardware. Develop and improve test methods, coordinate with contract manufacturers and labs, perform failure analysis and DFMEA, correlate lab tests with field data, produce test plans and reports, and partner with cross-functional teams to drive corrective actions and reliability improvements.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.