Top Senior Hardware Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead failure analysis and root-cause corrective actions for networking hardware issues from field and factory sources. Analyze quality metrics, debug complex board- and system-level hardware, review new-product test reports, and drive quality improvements, change management, and multisourcing activities. Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, operations, customer support, vendors, and customers. Provide technical leadership, document lessons learned, and mentor junior engineers.

Designs, tests, and analyzes custom high-speed digital electronics for the Terran R launch vehicle. Owns hardware through the full lifecycle, including concept design, board bring-up, verification, qualification, manufacturing, integration, and vehicle operations. Collaborates with mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, propulsion, GNC, and other teams to deliver reliable avionics hardware on schedule.

Designs and develops digital circuit and unit hardware for aerospace applications, including requirements, architecture, modeling, analysis, testing, verification, and production support. Leads technical reviews, supplier management recommendations, performance tracking, lifecycle engineering support, and future product research. The role requires close collaboration across satellite electronics teams and is fully onsite in El Segundo, California.

Owns technical direction and final sign-off for RF hardware implementations across wireless products. Reviews link budgets, cascade analysis, spectral performance, and subsystem requirements; guides RF architecture, component selection, verification, validation, and production testing. Leads root-cause analysis for interference, desense, link margin, coexistence, and compliance issues. Serves as the senior technical authority for complex RF hardware designs and advises engineers and cross-functional teams across multiple platforms.

Own the design, development, integration, verification, and delivery of spacecraft avionics from concept through flight-qualified hardware. Lead avionics architecture, PCB design, harnessing, embedded system interfaces, testing, environmental qualification, component selection, supplier coordination, and technical documentation. Collaborate with propulsion, guidance and control, thermal, and software teams to build reliable avionics for deep-space missions while establishing technical standards and executing autonomously.

Own spacecraft avionics hardware from concept through flight, including system architecture, PCB design, harnessing, embedded interfaces, integration, verification, and environmental qualification. Collaborate with propulsion, guidance and control, thermal, software, suppliers, and internal stakeholders. Lead hardware builds, component selection, testing, documentation, and delivery for reliable deep-space missions.

Integrate, assemble, calibrate, test, and qualify imaging sensor systems from prototypes through production. Build and deploy hardware, analyze test data, iterate designs with algorithm and opto-mechanical teams, develop test procedures and fixtures, and support supplier readiness. Automate workflows using Python and AI tools. The role is fully on-site in Los Angeles and includes regular weekend travel to test sites and suppliers.

Design, develop, test, and integrate RF and microwave hardware for satellite communications and software-defined radio systems. Responsibilities include RF circuit and multilayer PCBA design, component selection, environmental qualification, spacecraft integration, debugging, and technical mentorship. The role covers frequencies from UHF through Ka band and involves collaboration with antenna, FPGA, DSP, software, mechanical, and electrical engineering teams.

Designs and validates electrical and electronic components, subsystems, integrated circuitry, and hardware solutions. Develops test plans covering tolerances, form, fit, function, shock, vibration, EMI, safety, reliability, thermal performance, and power. Performs feasibility, margin, validation, modeling, and empirical analyses; collaborates with internal and outsourced engineering partners; evaluates production reliability and supports prototype fabrication for reliable, cost-effective products.

Lead hardware reliability for avionics components and production assemblies from design through flight. Partner with design, manufacturing, and test teams to track yields, investigate failures, perform electrical root-cause analysis, validate test systems, improve inspection and rework processes, and reduce production and flight risks. The role requires hands-on work across offices, factories, and labs, supporting Lean continuous improvement and product quality objectives.

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.

Own the design, analysis, manufacturing, testing, qualification, and deployment of integrated RF products for space communications. Develop RF circuitry across PCB, box, and integration levels; troubleshoot and qualify designs; perform RF cascades, link budgets, and noise analyses; and collaborate with supply chain, manufacturing, software, hardware, and FPGA teams. The role also involves component selection for radiation environments, board rework, communications link modeling, antenna measurement, and high-PAPR signal development.

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.

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 Sr. Power Electronics Hardware Engineer designs and develops SiC-based propulsion electronics for UAV and hybrid-electric aircraft, ensuring hardware meets aerospace standards and performance requirements.

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.

Design complex digital boards using high-end SoC FPGAs, high-speed interfaces, microprocessors, and power supplies. Perform signal and power integrity analysis using simulation tools, support EMC certification, and apply military and space hardware design experience. The role is hybrid in San Diego and offered on a contract-to-potential-permanent basis.

Own spacecraft and constellation hardware reliability strategies, requirements, models, allocations, and testing programs. Lead HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing, reliability growth, statistical modeling, root-cause investigations, FRACAS, and corrective actions. Integrate test and flight telemetry data into reliability predictions, flow down requirements, advise leadership on risk trade-offs, and mentor reliability engineers. Partner with design, systems, test, and manufacturing teams to improve robustness and support high-volume satellite production.

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.

Hands-on senior hardware design engineer responsible for schematic capture and PCB layout in Altium, high-speed SI/PI simulation, prototype bring-up, debugging, verification, and production release of mixed-signal and high-speed digital video/ networking/fiber products. Lead design reviews, mentor junior staff, coordinate cross-functional teams, and support compliance and reliability testing for mission-critical and medical-grade products.

Lead cross-functional hardware development from concept through production: define system architectures, allocate functionality across mechanical/electrical/RF/software/test, drive trade studies, manage interfaces, mitigate technical risks, run technical reviews, and collaborate with manufacturing and suppliers to deliver reliable defense hardware in operational environments.