Top Design Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

The ASIC Design Engineer is responsible for leading complex design implementations, ensuring quality through peer reviews, and adapting to technology changes.

The ASIC Design Engineer leads design implementations, ensuring quality in multiple disciplines including synthesis, floorplanning, and timing closure with minimal supervision.

Lead the design and implementation of debug, trace, and profiling hardware within SiFive's RISC-V ecosystem, focusing on quick market delivery and high performance.

Designs moderate to highly complex printed wiring board layouts from schematics and engineering inputs. Supports electrical hardware design, constraint editing, documentation, manufacturability requirements, fabrication criteria, and advanced packaging layouts. Collaborates with engineers, DFM specialists, and senior technical staff while communicating project status and resolving conflicting requirements. Requires extensive PWB design experience, specialized ECAD tools, knowledge of fabrication and assembly standards, and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

Owns the design and development of hot structures components for advanced military aircraft engines. Performs mechanical design, analysis, interface design, technical documentation, and presentations; collaborates with technical experts and adjacent teams; resolves engineering challenges; and leads small optimization projects while balancing program, design, interface, and resource requirements.

Lead the mechanical design, analysis, integration, and development of hot structures components for advanced military aircraft engines. Provide technical guidance, resolve complex engineering problems, lead small to medium projects, participate in technical reviews, document designs, and mentor less experienced engineers while balancing design, interface, and resource requirements.

Leads the design, development, commissioning, and continuous improvement of custom manufacturing equipment for high-volume production. Responsibilities include machine architecture, mechanisms, engineering analysis, CAD documentation, testing, root cause analysis, supplier and integrator management, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also mentors junior engineers and ensures equipment meets performance, safety, reliability, cost, and manufacturability objectives.

Designs mechanical and electromechanical test fixtures, tooling, and related hardware for optical networking products. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, engineering drawings, BOMs, configuration-controlled documentation, engineering analysis, tolerance studies, fabrication support, assembly, troubleshooting, validation, and deployment. The role collaborates with engineers, technicians, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to deliver reliable, manufacturable solutions throughout the product development lifecycle.

Lead the design, development, analysis, testing, and validation of custom metal bellows, assemblies, tooling, and fixtures. Create SolidWorks models, drawings, bills of materials, and technical documentation while applying GD&T and DFMA. Perform mechanical calculations and FEA, correlate test data with analytical models, and optimize designs for performance and manufacturability. Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, sales, and customers, support product qualification, drive continuous improvement, and mentor junior engineers.

Defines, analyzes, allocates, and verifies system and subsystem requirements using systems engineering, MBSE, and digital engineering methods. Responsibilities include mission-needs analysis, use-case and CONOPS development, functional modeling, requirements flow-down, trade studies, simulation-based verification, test strategy, risk management, and lifecycle requirements management. The role also supports technical assessments, documentation, presentations, interface design, and communication of design concerns to project leadership.

Designs, simulates, validates, and transfers high-speed electro-optic modulators to production. Responsibilities include RF and optical physics modeling, photonic component development, high-frequency simulations, device layout collaboration, test and calibration development, RF characterization, and cross-functional technical leadership from concept through customer engagement and manufacturing handoff.

Lead the architecture, hydraulic design, documentation, integration, manufacturing readiness, controls coordination, and commissioning of liquid-cooling and mechanical distribution systems for modular AI data centers. Own P&IDs, calculations, equipment and valve schedules, interfaces, standards, and performance validation. Collaborate with thermal, electrical, controls, manufacturing, commissioning, supply chain, OEM, and field teams to create scalable, serviceable, repeatable systems for deployment across multiple sites.

Design tunnels and underground structures using TBM and SEM methods, develop excavation support systems, perform analytical and numerical modeling, and prepare technical reports, specifications, drawings, and contract documents. The engineer will provide expertise in soil and rock mechanics, coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and clients, support geotechnical investigations, organize project deliverables, and contribute to tunneling standards and best practices.

Design and verification engineer responsible for verifying high-throughput Ethernet silicon products using constrained-random methodologies, SystemVerilog, and UVM. The role includes developing testbench structures, assertions, coverage closure, and verification across the full design lifecycle. Responsibilities involve collaboration with global architecture and design teams, supporting rapidly evolving AI/ML accelerator devices, and providing opportunities for technical leadership.

Designs and characterizes photonic integrated circuits and high-speed optical components, including lasers, detectors, modulators, and integrated waveguides. Performs RF and electro-optical modeling using HFSS and ADS, develops experiments, analyzes device performance data, and collaborates with fabrication, testing, reliability, packaging, systems, and product engineering teams. Requires advanced expertise in optical communications, DWDM systems, component fabrication, epitaxy, testing, and signal analysis.

Designs electrical control systems for conveyor and material-handling equipment, including power calculations, 480V and 120V schematics, I/O drawings, PLC and panel layouts, field-device layouts, and material specifications. Collaborates with customers, sales engineers, and project managers to define requirements. Inspects, tests, commissions, and troubleshoots motor control panels for compliance with design standards, codes, and project specifications.

Own end-to-end mechanical design of custom mobile manipulators by integrating robot arms with AMR/AGV bases. Create CAD models, mounting structures, cable routing, simulation-ready geometry, and mass, payload, and center-of-gravity analyses. Iterate multiple design concepts, document tolerances and assembly procedures, and support physical builds. Collaborate with simulation and platform evaluation engineers during validation. This is a hands-on mechanical and mechatronic design role focused on hardware integration rather than robotics software or controls.

Develop and maintain photonics Process Design Kits, including Python-based layout libraries, compact behavioral models, test structures, and automated verification pipelines. Validate models against silicon measurements through data fitting and statistical analysis. Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to support large-scale photonic integrated circuit tape-outs. The role requires advanced photonic device physics, circuit simulation, Python programming, layout automation, and experience with foundry PDKs and design verification.

Own front-end quality across Relay’s digital banking product, lead UI implementation, and evolve the Telegraph design system. Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver accessible, performant, polished experiences. Reduce UI and UX debt, create reusable components and documentation, support AI-accelerated development workflows, and champion consistent implementation standards across product teams.

Develop and execute verification strategies for a next-generation Physical AI SoC. Build SystemVerilog and UVM environments, assertions, checkers, scoreboards, and formal verification flows. Verify digital blocks, memory systems, interconnects, processors, DMA engines, and complete HW/SW behavior. Perform performance, latency, QoS, emulation, FPGA prototyping, pre-silicon bring-up, post-silicon debugging, and hardware-software root-cause analysis.

Leads complex highway and roadway design projects from inception through construction administration. Responsibilities include geometric layout, grading, drainage, utilities, permitting, technical task management, project budgeting and scheduling, quality assurance, specifications, client proposals, and mentoring junior staff. Requires collaboration across disciplines, public presentations, and travel to client meetings and project sites.

Leads architecture and design of high-speed mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuits for ATE applications. Responsibilities include wireline transmitters and receivers, DFE, clock and data recovery, VCO/PLL collaboration, analog and digital equalization, custom high-speed digital circuits, system integration, technical leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder presentations.

Designs multilayer PCBs, sensor electronics, power and motor-control circuits, and custom factory automation systems. Builds automated test fixtures, integrates sensors and actuators, develops C/C++ firmware and Python diagnostics, sources components, and troubleshoots complex hardware issues on production lines. Performs signal integrity, EMC/EMI, fault-path, stress testing, rapid prototyping, and production-line debugging using laboratory instruments.

Build polished, responsive front-end applications for Chiri Brain and client-specific AI solutions. Design user flows, prototypes, interfaces, reusable components, and design systems while integrating APIs, authentication, business data, agent workflows, and security controls. Work directly with customers and stakeholders to understand needs, rapidly prototype, gather feedback, and ship production-quality software. Help establish scalable front-end architecture and use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Develop thermal-hydraulic models for scientific apparatus using ASME B31.3-2022 for installation at a research reactor. Perform steady-state and transient temperature modeling, work independently, and coordinate with EPC contractors and vendors on costs and budgets. The role is remote, part-time, and temporary, with at least four required site visits to State College, Pennsylvania. U.S. citizenship, background screening, drug-free status, and references are required.