Top Design Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design and develop analog circuits and DC power electronics for communications infrastructure products. Select circuit topologies, develop power architectures, build and debug circuits, and troubleshoot field and factory issues. Collaborate with engineers, suppliers, and manufacturing teams on new and legacy products while managing multiple concurrent design projects.

Designs, models, builds, debugs, and tests RF transmitter and receiver subsystems for communications infrastructure products operating from VHF through 900 MHz. Responsibilities include developing power amplifiers, receivers, VCOs, and PLLs; collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams, suppliers, and manufacturing; troubleshooting legacy product issues; and supporting concurrent design projects. Some travel may be required.

Designs and develops modular retail fixtures using wood, metal, plastics, and glass. Creates 3D CAD models, production and installation drawings, bills of materials, prototypes, and engineering documentation. Collaborates with sales, manufacturing, customers, and cross-functional teams to deliver cost-effective custom solutions on schedule. Responsibilities include project management, sourcing, estimating, revision control, process improvement, manufacturing coordination, and value engineering.

Designs, develops, tests, and supports FPGA-based digital hardware throughout the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include digital circuit design, simulation, schematic capture, prototyping, subsystem debugging, test integration, hardware requirements development, and project leadership. The role supports electronic warfare, targeting, communications, radar, sensors, embedded processing, RF and electro-optical DSP systems. This is a full-time, on-site position requiring a Secret clearance and 10% travel.

Leads the design and development of complex audiovisual systems, including signal flow, architecture, control integration, and networked AV. Creates and reviews technical documentation, validates bills of materials, collaborates with clients and project stakeholders, conducts design quality reviews, supports installation and troubleshooting, mitigates technical risks, and mentors junior engineers.

Design and implement FPGA code for satellite digital payloads, including DSP algorithms, software-defined radio signal processing, embedded systems, and processor or peripheral interfaces. Responsibilities include developing custom IP, improving DSP and interface reliability, integrating vendor IP cores, supporting communications architecture, and participating in spacecraft design studies. The engineer will work across simulation, synthesis, place and route, timing closure, and hardware testing.

Designs detailed audiovisual systems, including signal flows, schematics, rack layouts, networked AV solutions, technical drawings, and bills of materials. Collaborates with sales, project managers, architects, clients, and engineering teams to validate designs, conduct quality reviews, support installation and commissioning, troubleshoot issues, and ensure solutions meet project requirements, standards, budgets, and client expectations.

Designs and delivers EPMS, electrical telemetry, and industrial controls solutions for Microsoft AI datacenters. Responsibilities include defining instrumentation and communications requirements, configuring EPMS hardware and networks, developing system integrations, testing and commissioning technologies, troubleshooting complex electrical and controls issues, producing technical documentation, and coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering, vendor, commissioning, and deployment teams.

Design and optimize passive and active silicon photonic components from simulation through layout, foundry tapeout, and characterization. Perform electromagnetic and multiphysics simulations, analyze wafer-level measurement data, develop manufacturable designs, and collaborate with layout engineers, system-level PIC designers, and foundry partners. The role focuses on improving optical performance, fabrication tolerance, bandwidth, crosstalk, insertion loss, and power consumption for LiDAR and optical switching applications.

Designs, integrates, tests, troubleshoots, and deploys RF, microwave, electronic warfare, and digital subsystem technologies. Responsibilities include hardware and system integration, RF performance analysis, FPGA and embedded processor design, root-cause analysis, production transition, technical documentation, supplier and customer support, test readiness reviews, and technical leadership of junior RF engineers.

Design and implement FPGA code for satellite digital payloads, including DSP algorithms, software-defined radio modulation and demodulation, and embedded processor interfaces. Develop custom IP, improve DSP and interface reliability, integrate vendor IP, and support communications architecture and spacecraft design studies. Participate across simulation, synthesis, place and route, timing closure, and hardware testing using Xilinx FPGAs and industry-standard HDL and simulation tools.

Designs and develops hardware test boards and platforms for high-speed electro-optical device characterization in R&D and manufacturing environments. Performs laboratory testing, analog design and debugging, test-system development, hardware bring-up, and firmware development for microcontrollers. Supports System-on-Chip optical engine development and interfaces with vendors. Preferred experience includes power supply design, advanced PCB stack-ups, optical instrumentation, automated measurements, and coherent optical communications.

Leads DFM and DFA analysis for complex PCB assemblies, develops manufacturing rule sets, reviews fabrication and assembly data, and collaborates with manufacturing, quality, engineering, and customers. Designs high-density multilayer PCB layouts from schematics using industry-standard CAD tools, creates manufacturing deliverables, maintains libraries and design standards, and supports continuous improvement across a global electronics manufacturing organization.

Build and ship interactive creative and engineering tools using React and TypeScript. Design core interactions, visual systems, motion behavior, accessibility, and performance-focused UI. Partner with internal users to iterate on features, contribute to design systems, review code and designs, and bridge design and engineering. The role requires strong visual craft, interaction design expertise, production engineering skills, and experience delivering complex editors or interactive platforms.

Develop and lead RF, SerDes, and mm-wave integrated circuits from architecture and simulation through silicon validation. Responsibilities include RF and analog IP design, layout guidance, characterization strategy, PCB development, RF and system-level measurements, competitive benchmarking, technology collaboration, productization, and university research liaison activities.

Designs, develops, tests, and supports digital hardware products across the full lifecycle. Responsibilities include FPGA and circuit-card design, digital circuit simulation, schematic capture, prototyping, debugging, integration, verification, and translating system specifications into hardware requirements and test plans. The role also involves project leadership, cross-functional collaboration, documentation control, and support for electronic warfare, communications, radar, sensing, and embedded processing systems.

Designs fixtures and tooling for manufacturing operations, collaborates with manufacturing engineering, design engineering, and production, supports continuous improvement, directs tool builds and maintenance, and assists with engineering drawings and PDM release processes. The role is fully on-site and requires mechanical or tool-design engineering experience, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for a DoD Secret clearance.

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 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.

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.

Build and verify FPGA-based networking acceleration for Microsoft Azure. Develop constrained-random SystemVerilog verification environments, test plans, test cases, assertions, sequences, constraints, and functional coverage. Automate test execution for CI/CD, collaborate with hardware and software teams using Agile methods, and occasionally support customer-reported hardware issues through on-call responsibilities.

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 mechanical design, documentation, and commissioning for industrial automation systems, robotic equipment, conveyors, material-handling systems, and EOAT. Responsibilities include SolidWorks modeling, drawings, BOM management, prototyping, assembly, system integration, troubleshooting, testing, root-cause analysis, design for manufacturability, vendor coordination, and supporting product improvements. The role is hands-on and requires shop-floor work, cross-functional collaboration, on-site work near Chicago, and travel up to 25%.

Leads roadway and transportation engineering projects from concept through completion, ensuring technical, regulatory, and client requirements are met. Prepares and reviews plans, specifications, and cost estimates; collaborates with multidisciplinary teams; mentors junior engineers; and supports QA/QC programs. Requires strong knowledge of IDOT, Illinois Tollway, and local agency standards, roadway design software proficiency, and a Professional Engineer license.

Design, implement, verify, and optimize FPGA-based digital signal processing systems. Responsibilities include architecture, RTL coding (VHDL/Verilog), HLS, testbench development, simulation, synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure, and hardware debugging for high-speed interfaces and embedded SoC architectures.