Electrical Hardware Design & Test Engineer
$150,000 - $200,000 USD yearly
About the role
As an Electrical Hardware Design & Test Engineer at nEye, you will validate electronic systems, build custom test stations, and support board design for an optical circuit switching platform. The scope includes testing semiconductors and PCBAs, performing hardware bring-up, and validating ASICs, boards, and subsystems from prototype to production.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and program custom electrical test stations for ASICs, circuit boards, and subsystems using custom fixtures, sockets, and wafer probers.
- Design R&D, production-test, and product circuit boards, covering architecture block diagrams, component selection, schematic design, PCB layout, and fabrication management.
- Perform board bring-up, debugging, and verification using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, and electronic loads.
- Identify root causes of hardware failures, execute validation plans, and participate in FMEA/FMECA analysis.
- Collaborate with ASIC, firmware, FPGA, photonics, and mechanical engineering teams to establish scalable electrical test methodologies.
- Partner with OSATs to develop, deploy, debug, and optimize electrical test solutions, fixtures, and methodologies for qualification and production ramp.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering.
- 5–8 years of industry experience in electronics test or design.
- Hands-on experience with electronics bring-up, debugging, and hardware testing.
- Experience with test automation using Python or a similar scripting language.
- Lab proficiency with power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters, waveform generators, electronic loads, and logic analyzers.
- Soldering skills, including small components down to 0402.
- Experience with Altium Designer for schematic and layout.
- Familiarity with embedded systems and hardware/software integration.
Nice to have
- Experience with semiconductor or ASIC test systems, including wafer probers.
- Partnership or engagement with OSATs.
- Experience designing custom test fixtures or automated validation systems.
- FMEA/FMECA or other reliability engineering experience.
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 47-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
1072
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Median days open
47 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$148k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | nEye | All employers we track in this specialty (1072 roles · 100 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 1072 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 2 | 6398 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 0 d | 47 d (−47 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $148k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Intel Corporation · 83 open roles · median 40 d
- KLA Corporation · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- Teradyne · 58 open roles · median 46 d
- NVIDIA · 55 open roles · median 69 d
- Applied Materials · 53 open roles · median 60 d
- ASML · 50 open roles · median 28 d
How we counted: 1072 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 100 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 3 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.