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Hardware Engineer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

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Mountain View, CA1 day ago

$186,000–$225,000 Per Year

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Mountain View, CA15 days ago

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Troubleshooting & Resolution: Troubleshooting of complex network issues, performing deep-dive analysis, root cause isolation, and permanent resolution for incidents affecting end users. Deployment & Operations: Deployment, configuration, and maintenance of network hardware (routers, switches, firewalls) from Cisco and Palo Alto (C9200, C9300X, C9200, PA5500).

Livermore, CA8 days ago

$125,000–$165,000 Per Year

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San Jose, CA4 days ago

$200,000–$260,000 Per Year

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Sunnyvale, CA8 days ago

$95,000–$200,000 Per Year

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San Francisco, CA8 days ago

$225,000–$280,000 Per Year

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Santa Clara, CA1 day ago

$147,000–$202,500 Per Year

As a Process Integration Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and optimizing nanotechnology process flows on various substrates, ensuring the performance, yield, and reliability of novel photonics devices including Augmented Reality displays. If you would like to contact us regarding accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us via e-mail at Accommodations_Program@amat.com, or by calling our HR Direct Help Line at 877-612-7547, option 1, and following the prompts to speak to an HR Advisor.

Burlingame, CA19 days ago

$61–$65 Per Year
Full-time

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in RF hardware design, RF simulation, and RF system validation and a proven ability to deliver robust RF designs, optimize performance, and resolve complex RF issues across component, board, and system levels. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.

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Santa Clara, CA1 day ago

$172,200–$243,000 Per Year

li>Remains updated on relevant industrial process and material manufacturing technical trends and develops view of inherent future Intel process technology needs to push industry forward by partnering with vendor ecosystem to build cost sensitive roadmap.

Leads design and development of technically sophisticated manufacturing processes and/or repair reverse engineering including material selection, parameter optimization, equipment metrology, and system design to enable new product designs and functional requirements.

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Foster City, CA5 days ago

$109,700–$170,200 Per Year

Masters, MBA, JD, MD)Minimum 3 years hands-on development experience • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to work well across teams • Experience with Agile Methodologies, Tools (Jira, Confluence) • Experience with Unit, Acceptance, Performance, Non-functional test, Certification test lifecycle, BDD/TDD methodology • Experience testing software at API level using SOAP UI, Postman, REST Client etc. Open VisaNet leverages state of the art Open Software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go, Scala, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Aerospike, Elasticsearch etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.

Cupertino,, California30+ days ago

$65–$70 Per Hour
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The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Successfully placed or hired candidates would only be asked for banking details after accepting an offer from us during our official onboarding processes as part of payroll setup.

Cupertino,, California30+ days ago

$50–$60 Per Hour
Contractor

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Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including hardware, environmental, operations, and technology groups to refine and execute on the design on the packaging .

Santa Clara, CA25 days ago

$50–$65 Per Hour
Full-time

The Tier 1 MCAD Support Engineer (Siemens NX) provides technical support for Mechanical CAD (MCAD) systems using Siemens NX in an enterprise engineering environment. The role focuses on user onboarding, access provisioning, installation, licensing, environment configuration, basic NX usage support, and NX PLM (Teamcenter) connectivity.

Sunnyvale, CA8 days ago

Full-time

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in computer hardware architecture, digital design, and systems integration and a proven ability to deliver reliable hardware solutions from concept through production. Design and develop computer hardware and peripherals, including CPUs, support logic, microprocessors, custom ICs, printers, and storage devices.

Cupertino, CA30+ days ago

p>We aim to hire engineers who will thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative and open environment, who aren"t afraid to dive-deep to solve seemingly impossible challenges, who want to build rock solid never-fail, highly-secure hardware at world-class scale and who obsess over customers. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Newark, CA25 days ago

li>5+ years of experience in designing high density boards with fine pitch components and high-density connectors, including expertise in high-speed interfaces such as DDR4, DDR5, PCIe Gen5/6 and microcontrollers and processors.

Power & Signal Integrity: Define and optimize robust board-level power distribution networks (PDN) capable of managing massive, transient current steps driven by modern AI logic gates.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

p>Typical ownership spansblock diagrams and high-level concept of operations definition,requirements capture,part selection andschematic capture,PCB layoutoversight, signal and power integrity analysis,supply chainand vendorengagement,hardware bring up and qualification,production test definition,troubleshooting and failure analysis, review of hardware performance on orbit,andtheincorporation of lessons learned and design improvements for the next generation.

Common design elements includehigh powermixed-signalASICs,cutting edgePAM4SerDes,fully custom RF front ends and antenna elements,highly reliable anddensepowerconversionand distribution, extremetemperatureenvironments,customcopper and optoelectronicinterconnect, and tight electromechanical/thermal integrationdesigned formass manufacturing.

San Jose, CA19 days ago

$180,000–$200,000 Per Year

p>We are seeking an experienced Senior Hardware Design Engineer to lead the design and development of advanced PCB-based imaging platforms for next-generation CMOS image sensors, board-level cameras, and X-ray camera systems.

Lead hardware development focused on robust USB-C interoperability, including:

USB-C orientation support,
enumeration and configuration reliability,
sustained high-bandwidth streaming performance,
cable and host interoperability robustness.

San Jose, California19 days ago

Lead hardware development focused on robust USB-C interoperability, including:

USB-C orientation support,
enumeration and configuration reliability,
sustained high-bandwidth streaming performance,
cable and host interoperability robustness.

Sunnyvale, CA10 days ago

$105,500–$213,500 Per Year

Please note that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), its direct and indirect subsidiaries and affiliated companies, and its authorized recruitment agencies/vendors will never charge a candidate a registration fee, hiring fee, or any other fee in connection with its recruitment and hiring process. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world.

Sunnyvale, California12 days ago

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Follow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE. Variable incentives may also be offered."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html.

Fremont, CA30+ days ago

Full-time

Our advanced optical, mechanical, electrical, and software design capabilities support the evolving needs of high-density, high-bandwidth, and flexible optical networks across telecom, datacom, hyperscale datacenters, artificial intelligence, and supercomputing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including optical, hardware, mechanical, software, and process engineers, to deliver high-performance, cost-effective, and robust products, ensuring efficient and repeatable manufacturing.

San Jose, CA24 days ago

$210,000–$260,000 Per Year

Keywords: Senior Electrical Engineer, System Hardware Design Engineer, Board-Level Design, PCB Systems Design, High-Speed Interfaces, PCIe Gen5, PCI Express Gen 6, Ethernet, Signal Integrity, SI Engineering, Board Bring-Up, Hardware Debug, Lab Validation, Compliance Testing, Reliability Testing, Product Qualification, System Architecture, Hardware Architect, HyperLynx, Ansys SI, High-Speed PCB, Systems Engineering. The ideal System Hardware Design Engineer role is ideal for a staff‑caliber board‑level designer who thrives in hands‑on system integration, board bring‑up, and high‑speed interface validation while influencing overall system architecture.

Foster City, CA30+ days ago

$83–$93.46 Per Hour

You ll collaborate with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds in areas such as AI, robotics, machine learning, controls, computer vision, simulation, design, and automated testing. In this highly cross-functional role, you will need to develop requirements, solve challenging design problems, create and test prototypes, and coordinate projects to meet critical company milestones.

Saratoga, CA24 days ago

$210,000–$250,000 Per Year

Keywords: Hardware Design Engineer, Hardware Design, Board Design, Hardware Development, Networking Systems, High-speed, Ethernet, PCIe, Electrical Engineer. Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer who will sit on site in Saratoga CA 5 days a week.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

Develop forward surrogate models for CVD/ALD/etch chambers mapping geometry, gas chemistry, flow, temperature, and power to film-uniformity, step-coverage, particle behavior, and thermal outcomes. Implement inverse-design workflows where target performance specifications generate feasible chamber geometries, showerhead/baffle designs, and process conditions via generative or adjoint/topology-optimization methods.

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$170,000–$223,000 Per Year

p>Backed by industry giants like NVIDIA, AMD, Mediatek and Intel and manufactured in partnership with the worlds leading semiconductor ecosystem, Ayar Labs co-packaged optics solution is key to unleashing next-generation AI scale-up architectures. As pioneers of co-packaged optics (CPO), we are using light instead of electricity to move data faster, further, and with a fraction of the energy needed to fuel the explosive growth of AI models.

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$180,000–$250,000 Per Year

p>Backed by industry giants like NVIDIA, AMD, Mediatek and Intel and manufactured in partnership with the world's leading semiconductor ecosystem, Ayar Labs' co-packaged optics solution is key to unleashing next-generation AI scale-up architectures. As pioneers of co-packaged optics (CPO), we are using light instead of electricity to move data faster, further, and with a fraction of the energy needed to fuel the explosive growth of AI models.

San Jose, CA17 days ago

$240,000–$260,000 Per Year

p>Keywords: Electrical Engineer, Staff Electrical engineer, hardware engineer, system engineer, board-level design, high-speed design, hardware architect, systems integration, board bring-up, hardware debugging, system-level validation, lab testing, signal integrity, power integrity, high-speed interfaces, PCIe Gen5, PCIe Gen 6, 10G Ethernet, 25G, 100G ethernet, SERDES, High-speed IO, HyperLynx, Ansys SI Tools, Hardware Integration, Compliance testing, Vendor selection, Technology Evaluation, DFM, design for manufacturing, technical leadership.

Piper Companies is seeking two experienced Staff Hardware Engineers - Board-Level Design (High-Speed Focus) to support system-level hardware development within a cutting-edge technology environment.

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Sunnyvale, California6 days ago

$90,000–$136,200 Per Year

Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

$135,500–$275,000 Per Year

Additional Skills: Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 5 more}. This individual will be a subject matter expert in 100G/400G/800G/1.6T pluggable optical/electrical transceiver and cable assembly interconnects and be responsible for module level specifications and test verification across HPE's switching, routing and security platforms.

Sunnyvale, California30+ days ago

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Follow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE. Variable incentives may also be offered."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

$153,500–$310,500 Per Year

p>About the position:

Expert hardware systems engineer working with architects, product line managers, software engineers, test engineers and NPI (New Product Introduction) teams to develop cutting edge, high-end routing platforms.

Deep knowledge of systems design considerations from many angles including software, firmware, BIOS, PCB layout, signal integrity, mechanical, thermal, power, EMI compliance, manufacturability, testability, MTBF and COGS.

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

$91,600–$137,400 Per Year

li>Enable high-volume production: Partner with manufacturing, test, and supplier teams to optimize yield, reduce defects, and scale production-delivering repeatable, high-quality processes for mass deployment across global vehicle programs.

Own schematic, PCB, and BOM execution: Lead end-to-end hardware development-from schematic capture and high-integrity PCB layout using EDA tools to BOM definition-ensuring signal integrity, power delivery, thermal performance, and EMC compliance.

Cupertino, CA30+ days ago

Engineers, who like to immerse themselves in systems hardware design, creating magic in the palm of their hand on a device that will affect millions of iPhone users. This is a unique hardware design position that starts at product concept and continues all the way through to mass production.

Cupertino, CA30+ days ago

Engineers, who like to immerse themselves in systems hardware design, creating magic in the palm of their hand on a device that will affect millions of iPhone users.

This is a unique hardware design position that starts at product concept and continues all the way through to mass production.

Palo Alto, California19 days ago

li>Experience in designing and implementing digital interfaces, including MIPI (camera and display), USB, I2C/SPI, SDIO, UART as well as wireless protocols such as LTE, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. Our team is composed of the best and brightest minds, many of whom have played key roles in leading companies such as Microsoft, Amazon Alexa, SmartThings, and Samsung.

Sunnyvale, CA21 days ago

p>Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

Experience with Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hardware platforms, including Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

li>Drive product quality by leading hardware validation and qualification, including defining, implementing, and automating comprehensive test plans for sub-systems like CPU, DDR memory, and key bus technologies (PCIe, Ethernet), directly impacting system stability and time-to-market.

Proven capability in high-speed hardware design and analysis, including hands-on experience with schematic capture, driving complex PCB layouts, and using tools like high-speed oscilloscopes and bus analyzers for debugging and analysis.

San Jose, California30+ days ago

$175,000–$200,000

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Key Responsibilities:

Technical Solution Design and Support:

Responsible for the design, simulation, and optimization of key components in server liquid cooling systems, such as cold plates, manifolds, and sealing structures.
Lead the thermal management structural layout of liquid-cooled servers, collaborating with hardware, power supply, structural, and testing teams to complete the integration, assembly, and maintainability design of liquid-cooled servers.

Redwood City, California30+ days ago

$175,000–$240,000 Per Year

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In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. Where an offer falls within the range will reflect the full scope of what a new hire brings to the team.

Salary is just one part of our total compensation package, which typically includes a comprehensive benefits plan and equity.

Reach - Who We Are

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

This role focuses heavily on high-speed signal integrity engineering, PCIe Gen5/Gen6 reference board design, power integrity analysis, validation board implementation, package collaboration, and cloud compute systems. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in high-speed PCB design, signal integrity analysis, SERDES technologies, PCIe protocols, power delivery systems, and board bring-up/debug activities within complex semiconductor environment.

Cupertino, CA30+ days ago

p>The iPhone team is looking for experienced Hardware Design Engineers who are motivated by the opportunity to make design decisions, often difficult ones, that will benefit millions of iPhone users worldwide. This is a unique hardware design position that starts at product concept designing the development platforms for future iPhone generations, following through HW build and bringup.

San Francisco, California19 days ago

p>We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset.

We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio.

San Jose, CA26 days ago

Collaborate cross-functionally with Hardware, Firmware, Software, Power, Mechanical, Thermal, Validation, Signal Integrity, Manufacturing, and external vendors to ensure system integration meeting quality and schedule. Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a specialized field (e.g., Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP, etc.), or equivalent practical experience.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

li>Develop forward surrogate models for CVD/ALD/etch chambers mapping geometry, gas chemistry, flow, temperature, and power to film-uniformity, step-coverage, particle behavior, and thermal outcomes.

Implement inverse-design workflows where target performance specifications generate feasible chamber geometries, showerhead/baffle designs, and process conditions via generative or adjoint/topology-optimization methods.

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

$50–$60 Per Hour

Demonstrates strong problem-solving skills and keen attention to detail, with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences through both written and verbal channels. Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering or a related field, with 7 years of experience in hardware design and development, ideally in Automotive.

San Jose, California30+ days ago

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Expertise in RTL design (Verilog/SystemVerilog), including digital/analog block implementation.

Build early-stage RTL designs based on product and architecture intent driving Silicon and Solution co-development.

San Jose, CA18 days ago

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Electronic Design: Develop and refine schematics and PCB layouts across both control electronics (MCUs, FPGAs, signal conditioning) and power electronics (inverters, converters, gate drivers, thermal management). If you are an expert in power and control electronics design, passionate about high-efficiency motor control and wide-bandgap semiconductors, and want to work with a small, dedicated, and effective team, we invite you to join our mission.

Pleasanton, CA20 days ago

$250,000–$270,000 Per Year

li>Individually contribute to mechanical/electromechanical design for critical fluidics subsystem components and assemblies and provide expert design review of other team-members designs. This role focuses on the design and control of irrigation and aspiration systems, combining pumps, valves, sensors, tubing sets, and embedded software into safe and reliable products.

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