Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Lead the design, integration, testing, and troubleshooting of high-speed digital circuit cards and electronic systems for radar, electronic warfare, and sensing prototypes. Responsibilities include architecture, interface and clocking definition, signal and power integrity analysis, simulation, documentation, supplier and government interaction, performance validation, and mentoring junior engineers. The role leads small multidisciplinary teams and supports field-deployable prototype development.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and fields advanced RF hardware systems for defense applications. Responsibilities include defining requirements, selecting RF components, performing link-budget and related analyses, developing test plans, supporting assembly and integration, and analyzing test data. The engineer collaborates with multidisciplinary teams on radar, electronic warfare, communications, and potentially airborne systems throughout the development lifecycle.

Integrate and validate rugged server hardware, including power supplies, risers, cabling, add-in cards, and high-speed interfaces. Design supporting PCBs, manage power architecture, address signal integrity and thermal concerns, and lead system bring-up, debugging, and root-cause analysis. Develop electrical specifications, integration plans, and test procedures while collaborating with mechanical, test, software, and systems teams.

Designs, develops, assembles, tests, and supports computer hardware and peripherals. Responsibilities include analyzing system requirements, evaluating hardware/software interfaces, building prototypes, verifying equipment, documenting configurations and test results, selecting materials, monitoring performance, and providing technical support, training, and implementation guidance. The role requires at least three years of directly related technical experience and is remote within the United States.

Lead end-to-end hardware development for next-generation communication modules, including schematics, PCB layouts, component libraries, prototypes, test fixtures, validation, compliance testing, and in-lab or field debugging. Collaborate with firmware, systems, and mechanical engineers, maintain design documentation and databases, lead design reviews, support field-failure investigations, mentor junior engineers, and improve design processes and tooling.

Support hardware engineering teams by designing, documenting, building, testing, and debugging robotic and electromechanical systems. Responsibilities include CAD-based part design, assembly, robot motion scripting in Python, BOM and ECO management, PLC implementation, reliability testing, and root cause analysis. Interns may work across mechanical, electrical, testing, and industrial controls functions while collaborating with experienced engineers on warehouse automation technology.

Designs and prototypes RF hardware and analog/mixed-signal systems for hardware-in-the-loop, digital twin, and surrogate platforms. Characterizes and debugs complex electronic systems using laboratory test equipment, develops automated acquisition and control platforms, leads customer and internal test events, and represents hardware expertise on interdisciplinary teams. The role also supports technical proposals, design reviews, documentation, cost estimates, scheduling, and mentorship of junior engineers.

Lead verification and characterization of high-speed electro-optic links across silicon and system programs. Responsibilities include lab debugging, electrical and optical channel modeling, link-budget ownership, eye-diagram and BER analysis, silicon bring-up, signal-integrity root-cause investigations, architecture tradeoff guidance, automation development, and engineering mentorship. The role requires deep expertise in high-speed SerDes, photonics, measurement systems, and modeling tools.

Designs and builds prototypes for wearable and non-contact physiological sensing products. Responsibilities include instrumentation circuit design, sensor performance optimization, prototype validation, circuit and mechanical debugging, manufacturing system maintenance, and collaboration on data-gathering experiments. The role supports multiple research and commercialization projects and requires strong electrical, mechanical, biomedical engineering, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.

Designs, documents, tests, troubleshoots, and supports the lifecycle of quartz and atomic frequency oscillator hardware. Responsibilities include developing analog, mixed-signal, embedded, and RF/microwave circuits; participating in design reviews; creating requirements and validation plans; supporting failure analysis, compliance, obsolescence, and engineering change orders; and collaborating across hardware, software, mechanical, PCB, and program management teams.

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.

Leads architecture, design, validation, and production implementation of complex hardware, including embedded controllers, analog and digital circuits, data converters, RF/microwave subsystems, and filters. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers, reviews designs, performs root-cause analysis, ensures regulatory compliance, and collaborates with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and customer teams.

Supports the design, validation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of reliability stress hardware and systems used to qualify semiconductor products. Responsibilities include developing Burn-In, HAST, and HTOL boards; performing board- and system-level validation; assisting with hardware bring-up and failure investigations; collaborating with technicians, engineers, product teams, and suppliers; and documenting designs and test results. The role requires a strong electrical engineering foundation, laboratory skills, and interest in semiconductor reliability and qualification testing.

Designs and develops hardware test boards and platforms for high-speed electro-optical device characterization in R&D and manufacturing environments. Performs laboratory testing, analog design and debugging, test-system development, hardware bring-up, and firmware development for microcontrollers. Supports System-on-Chip optical engine development and interfaces with vendors. Preferred experience includes power supply design, advanced PCB stack-ups, optical instrumentation, automated measurements, and coherent optical communications.

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 prototype sensor hardware, including PCBs, mechanical housings, and electromechanical systems for industrial environments. Develop test strategies, collect and analyze sensor data, integrate sensors with Zephyr RTOS platforms, and support field trials. Lead rapid R&D evaluations, product bringup, debugging, fabrication, and cross-functional system development.

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 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.

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.

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 architecture and development of rugged board‑level hardware for high‑speed embedded systems. Design and verify advanced digital circuits (400G+, PCIe Gen5+, DDR5+), mentor engineers, establish hardware standards, support proposals, and drive DFM/DFA/DFT with cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑reliability defense/aerospace solutions.

The Senior Hardware Integration and Test Engineer will lead hardware integration and testing tasks, develop test plans, manage project risks, and mentor junior engineers within a multidisciplinary team.

Design and develop hardware from concept through production for microcontroller-based systems. Create analog and mixed-signal circuits, power supplies, and manage signal integrity. Use EDA tools for schematic/PCB design, validate prototypes with lab equipment, ensure EMI/EMC compliance (automotive), and collaborate with firmware, mechanical, and test teams to ensure manufacturability and robustness.

Design, develop, simulate, layout, build, and test electronic hardware and PCBs. Translate system requirements into hardware architectures, prepare manufacturing documentation, support prototype debugging, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while independently driving projects to completion.