Top Design Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Collaborate with product designers to implement modular, reusable React components and pixel-perfect UI across desktop and mobile. Build performant CSS-driven interactions, animations, and micro-interactions. Bridge front-end logic with design and maintain high polish across Vetcove's applications.

Provide advanced CFD modeling and fluid mechanics expertise to develop, commercialize, and optimize process equipment for refining, petrochemical, and gas processing. Lead CFD analyses for reactor/equipment scale-up, troubleshooting, and design concepts; mentor analysts; support customer/vendor meetings; contribute patents and technical publications; and apply modeling and programming to solve multiphase and granular solids problems.

Lead and manage a global mechanical design team to develop user-centered energy and sustainability solutions. Set design strategy, provide technical guidance, collaborate cross-functionally, manage project timelines, budgets, and resources, and drive continuous improvement to deliver high-quality products.

Lead mechanical FEA analyst providing advanced finite element and stress analysis for pressure vessels, reactors, piping and specialty process equipment. Perform thermal, creep-plastic, fatigue, fracture mechanics, fitness-for-service, and vibration analyses; support design, re-rating, troubleshooting, and remaining-life studies. Develop user subroutines and tools, mentor junior analysts, present technical findings to customers, and contribute to technical publications and IP development.

Lead PCB and CCA design efforts, define and maintain design rules and layer stack-ups, perform DFM checks, generate fabrication notes and electronic data outputs using Cadence Allegro and Valor NPI, and liaise with suppliers to ensure manufacturability and product integrity.

Design and validate defense sensing and RF systems using MBSE/DOORS. Decompose requirements, run trade studies, maintain system models and VCRMs, support integration and verification, and collaborate across hardware/software teams.

Lead full lifecycle digital hardware design for FPGA-based circuit cards and subsystems: research, simulation, schematic capture, prototyping, test, integration, production support, and team leadership. Translate system requirements into hardware and test specifications for EW, sensors, and high-speed interfaces.

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.

Lead full life-cycle digital hardware development using modern FPGAs and high-speed interfaces. Design, prototype, debug, test, and integrate complex circuit cards and subsystems. Translate system specs to hardware/test requirements, work with cross-functional teams, and support production and fielding for defense-related sensing and EW systems.

Design and document ruggedized electronic equipment for military applications. Create and update CAD models, engineering drawings, and library parts. Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, systems engineers and manufacturing/quality teams to support producibility, machining, and ASME-compliant drawing practices.

Lead full life-cycle digital hardware development including digital circuit and circuit-card design, FPGA and embedded-processor implementation, simulation, prototyping, test, verification, and field support. Translate system specs into hardware and test requirements while collaborating with manufacturing and program management.

Lead PWB/PCB layout and drawing generation for rigid, flex, and rigid-flex assemblies using Cadence Allegro. Calculate layer stack-ups, produce fabrication outputs, ensure DFM and manufacturability, interface with electrical/mechanical teams, incorporate change notices, and lead design reviews with quality and manufacturing.

Design, develop, prototype, and test digital hardware and circuit cards across full product lifecycle using FPGAs and embedded processors. Lead small teams, translate system requirements into hardware and test specifications, support integration and fielding for defense/aerospace electronic warfare and sensing systems. On-site role requiring US citizenship and active security clearance.

Design, develop, prototype, and test digital hardware and FPGA-based subsystems across full product lifecycle. Translate system specifications into hardware requirements, perform simulation, schematic capture, debug complex circuit cards, and support production and field operations while collaborating with cross-functional teams on EW, RF/EO DSP, and high-speed interfaces.

Lead full lifecycle FPGA and digital hardware design for EW and sensor systems: system requirements, digital circuit design, FPGA implementation, prototyping, test/verification, production support, and cross-functional team leadership.

Lead systems design activities using MBSE/DOORS to decompose requirements, perform trade studies, produce specifications and VCRMs, and coordinate cross-discipline design and verification for EOIR/RF systems in a DoD environment.

Lead systems design using MBSE/DOORS to decompose requirements, perform trade studies, maintain traceability/verification artifacts, and coordinate multidisciplinary hardware/software/firmware teams for EOIR/RF systems. Support technical presentations, DoD program phases, and secure government-clearance program needs.

Design and develop digital hardware and circuit cards through full product lifecycle. Responsibilities include FPGA-based subsystem design, schematic capture, prototyping, simulation, test, integration, and field support for high-speed, RF/EO, and embedded processor interfaces.

Design and implement production-quality UI and components by combining visual design and frontend engineering. Improve and extend the in-house design system, ship end-to-end features, iterate quickly with user feedback, and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to solve large-scale UX problems for Ashbys customer base.

Design and implement user-facing features end-to-end, improve and expand the design system, collaborate with product engineers and designers, ship fast, gather user feedback, and iterate on UI/UX for a high-scale recruiting product.

Design and implement polished UI/UX and reusable components, expand and maintain the design system, collaborate with product engineers, ship frontend features using TypeScript and React, and iterate quickly based on user feedback.

Design and develop primary and secondary structural components for a next-generation UAV. Execute full design lifecycle, perform hand calculations and limited FEA, support structural validation and testing, produce drawings and documentation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure manufacturability and system integration.

Lead design and development of primary and secondary structural components for next-generation UAVs, owning the full lifecycle from concept to production. Perform and guide linear/nonlinear FEA, stress and fatigue analysis, material selection (composites, aluminum), and structural validation testing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams for integration, manufacturability, and certification, mentor junior engineers, and improve design and configuration management processes.

Design and develop primary and secondary structural components for a next-generation UAV platform from concept through production. Create CAD models and drawings, perform hand calculations and basic FEA, collaborate with cross-functional teams for system integration, support structural testing and validation, resolve manufacturing and flight-test issues, and produce engineering documentation in compliance with aerospace standards.

Design and develop primary and secondary structural components for a next-generation UAV. Perform CAD modeling, hand calculations, limited FEA, generate drawings and documentation, support validation and testing, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and iterate hardware through manufacturing and flight tests.