Hardware Jobs in United States
There are 3,580 open Hardware jobs in United States on freehire right now. 665 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are ai, python and automation.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | year | $152,656 | $185,000 | $213,080 | 843 |
| USD | hour | $28 | $41 | $51 | 32 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- ai 35%
- python 28%
- automation 20%
- fpga 18%
- firmware 18%
- verilog 17%
- networking 15%
- pcb 14%
How the work is done
- Onsite 675 · 19%
- Hybrid 294 · 8%
- Remote 122 · 3%
Visa sponsorship offered in 45% of the 1,013 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 759
- Principal 276
- Staff 201
- Lead 193
- Intern 139
- C-level 54
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,172
- 501-1000 employees 246
- 11-50 employees 106
- 51-200 employees 90
- 201-500 employees 13
- 1-10 employees 8
Sr FPGA Engineering Manager
Lead a small FPGA engineering team and design FPGA modules in VHDL while guiding projects from requirements to verification and testing.
Physical Design Engineer
Designs advanced 2.5D/3D IC layouts, power grids, and high-speed interconnects for next-gen ASICs, using scripting and electrical analysis to power cloud, networking, and AI hardware.
Enterprise Hardware Engineering Technical Leader
Lead hardware board design for next-gen routing products, shepherding designs from concept through production with x86/ARM processors, DDR4/5, PCIe, and high-speed Ethernet interfaces.
Communications Hardware Engineer / Principal Communications Hardware Engineer
Design, integrate, and test military-grade communications hardware for autonomous aircraft, including RF systems, VoIP, and satellite links, with field troubleshooting and travel up to 25% of the time.
CPU Physical Design Engineer
Designs and optimizes CPU physical layouts from RTL to GDS, using EDA tools to ensure power efficiency and timing closure for Intel’s latest processors.
Software Engineer, Silicon Design Methodology
Build design methodologies and software tools to accelerate OpenAI’s custom AI-native silicon development, collaborating with architects and engineers to improve iteration speed and quality.
Senior Functional Safety Engineer (Hardware)
Define and implement functional safety concepts for autonomous heavy construction machinery, focusing on hardware safety standards and lifecycle processes.
Hardware Engineer II
Designs and debugs high-speed digital circuit boards for network visibility products, integrating processors, ASICs, and memory while collaborating with software and manufacturing teams.
Wireless RF Hardware Engineer
Design and validate RF systems for Apple products to meet wireless regulatory standards, collaborating with hardware teams to debug emissions and ensure compliance.
AI Founder, Edge Hardware
Founder role to build a company removing vendor lock-in in edge AI by creating a unified runtime and compiler abstraction across heterogeneous NPUs and mixed hardware fleets.
Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design
Design and validate high-speed circuit boards and test systems for Apple’s next-gen SoCs, debugging power, signal integrity, and interface issues in the lab.
FPGA Engineer
Design and optimize FPGA-based host and network IO subsystems for Cerebras' AI supercomputers, including RoCE v2, switching fabric, and proprietary WSE interfaces.