Top Hardware Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Maintains and troubleshoots server, storage, networking, cabling, and power hardware across a large-scale production data center fleet. Writes Python automation scripts, reviews logs and alerts, performs diagnostics, supports deployments, builds hardware health dashboards, coordinates with DevOps, supply chain, and vendors, and assists with hardware evaluation and reliability improvements. Requires on-call availability and travel to data center sites.

Designs and verifies ultra-high-speed PCB circuits and new routing-system hardware for Nokia’s Service Router products. Responsibilities include schematic and board design, simulation, design verification, production release, board bring-up, debugging, and hardware-lab testing. The role also maintains hardware and system integrity while collaborating with engineering teams to deliver reliable high-performance digital hardware.

10-week Hardware Engineer internship involving hands-on projects, classroom training on markets and hardware design, mentorship, professional development, and social events. Requires RTL coding skills and offers potential full-time placement.

Entry-level hardware engineer role developing and testing low-latency hardware for trading systems. Collaborate across software and trading teams, drive projects from idea to production, and apply RTL languages and system design to optimize performance.

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.

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.

Designs and develops FPGA SmartNIC networking acceleration for Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include hardware architecture evaluation, RTL coding in Verilog/SystemVerilog, simulation, hardware testing, debugging, verification, scripting, software development, Agile collaboration, and production DevOps support. The role partners across hardware and software teams to deliver cloud networking infrastructure, including SDN capabilities, packet manipulation, and performance improvements.

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.

Owns the hardware lifecycle for GPU and infrastructure assets, including fleet health monitoring, vendor RMA workflows, firmware and BIOS upgrades, burn-in testing, failure investigation, inventory accuracy, capacity planning, spare-parts strategy, runbook creation, and new platform qualification. The role serves as the technical owner of physical compute platforms and supports high-density GPU infrastructure across sites.

Develop and maintain hardware and low-level software across the network stack, from FPGA NIC packet processing and PCIe crossings to kernel socket engineering. Write and debug high-performance Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL and C/C++ code, evaluate system performance, test large datasets, collaborate with Ops and Technical teams, and manage project releases.

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.

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 and maintain embedded hardware for intelligent control and monitoring systems, including analog, digital, mixed-signal circuits, PCBs, power systems, sensors, and industrial communications. Support firmware development, system integration, testing, regulatory compliance, manufacturing, and field diagnostics. Translate customer and market needs into product specifications, contribute to new product development, and collaborate with global engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers. Travel domestically and internationally approximately 10–20%.

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.