Senior Hardware Engineer - Santa Clara, CA (Hybrid)

Senior Hardware Engineer Position

We are seeking a highly motivated and hands-on Senior Hardware Engineer to play a key role in the design, development, validation, and support of hardware systems in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. This individual will be responsible for driving hardware board design efforts directly and through external design partners, while providing technical leadership across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute directly toward hardware design, troubleshooting and testing
• Manage subcontracts to successfully design hardware systems
• Lead the design, development, and validation of hardware systems, including schematic capture, PCB design, hardware bring-up, and production support
• Own low-power and RF hardware design for IoT products, driving architecture, component selection, power optimization, wireless integration, and technical tradeoff decisions
• Perform hands-on debugging, testing, root-cause analysis, and resolution of design, manufacturing, and field issues using industry-standard lab equipment
• Manage and provide technical leadership to external design partners and subcontractors in India and China, ensuring quality, schedule, and deliverable execution
• Collaborate with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams to deliver products from concept through production
• Drive project execution, design reviews, documentation, risk management, and cross-functional alignment in a fast-paced and highly dynamic environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 8+ years of experience in related fields
• Strong knowledge of hardware system architecture, board-level design, and electronic component selection
• Proficiency with OrCAD Capture for schematic design and PCB layout design tools
• Knowledge of low-power hardware design techniques, including battery-powered system design and power optimization
• Understanding of RF and wireless technologies used in IoT products, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Wi-Fi, Thread, Zigbee, LoRa, or Cellular
• Strong hardware debugging and troubleshooting skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and other laboratory equipment
• Knowledge of hardware verification, validation, and product qualification methodologies
• Ability to perform root-cause analysis and drive issue resolution in a structured and organized manner
• Understanding design-for-manufacturing (DFM), design-for-test (DFT), and product lifecycle development processes

Experience

• 8+ years of experience in hardware design, development, validation, and product support
• Experience designing complex electronic systems from concept through production and sustaining engineering
• Experience creating schematics using OrCAD Capture and working closely with PCB layout engineers throughout the design cycle
• Experience developing low-power hardware solutions for battery-powered, embedded, or IoT products
• Experience with RF and wireless system integration, testing, troubleshooting, and optimization for connected devices
• Experience performing hardware bring-up, debugging, characterization, and failure analysis using industry-standard laboratory equipment
• Experience developing and executing hardware verification, validation, qualification, and production test plans
• Experience troubleshooting field failures and driving structured root-cause analysis and corrective actions
• Experience managing external design partners, ODMs, contract manufacturers, or engineering subcontractors
• Experience working with engineering teams and suppliers across multiple geographic regions, including Asia
• Experience collaborating with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams throughout the product development lifecycle
• Experience supporting prototype builds, design verification testing (DVT), product validation testing (PVT), manufacturing ramp, and production release activities
• Experience leading technical reviews, driving engineering decisions, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience working in fast-paced environments with changing priorities, tight timelines, and high levels of ownership

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is $135,000 to $186,000 / year. Salary ranges provided take into account a wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications, geographic differentials and other business and organizational needs. Therefore, actual amounts offered may be higher or lower than the range provided. If you have questions, please speak to your Talent Acquisition Partner about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.” Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation may be part of a total offering beyond medical & retirement benefits and may include other monetary incentives or business benefits.