Hardware Systems Engineer

Hardware Engineer Mid-level (L4 equivalent) 2-5 years

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The job description

Tech stack. System architecture, requirements management, interface control documents, system modeling, integration planning, trade study analysis, verification planning, risk registers

About the role

You will own the technical definition of complete hardware systems at a company building multi-subsystem products where integration risk is the biggest schedule threat. Hardware systems engineers translate product requirements into architectures, allocate budgets across power, thermal, cost, and mass, and define the interfaces that let specialized teams work in parallel without collisions. You will live in the trade-offs: no subsystem is perfect, but the system as a whole has to be excellent. Clear writing, quantitative reasoning, and the courage to say no to bad ideas early are your core tools. This role suits engineers who think in systems first and components second.

What you will achieve

Deliver complete system architectures with allocated power, thermal, cost, and mass budgets that subsystem teams can actually design against with confidence
Author interface control documents covering electrical, mechanical, and software boundaries, eliminating ambiguity before detailed design starts
Drive requirements traceability from product requirements through subsystem specifications to verification test plans with demonstrably full coverage
Resolve cross-subsystem conflicts such as EMI versus cost or thermal versus performance with data-driven trade studies and clear recommendations
Deliver integration test plans that verify the system as a whole, catching interface problems in the lab before they ever reach customers

What you will bring

Must-haves

2 to 5 years in hardware engineering with exposure to system-level thinking through architecture, requirements, or integration responsibilities
Experience writing clear technical specifications that other engineers can build from directly without ambiguity, rework, or interpretation gaps
Understanding of systems concepts: requirements decomposition, interface management, and verification and validation planning
Ability to run quantitative trade studies with weighted comparisons of competing approaches and honestly stated assumptions
Familiarity with at least two hardware domains (power, RF, digital, thermal, mechanical) deeply enough to reason about their interactions
Strong documentation discipline: versioned specs, decision records, and traceability matrices maintained as living documents
BS in Electrical Engineering or related field with systems coursework or equivalent experience

Nice-to-haves

Experience with SysML or model-based systems engineering tools for architecture capture and analysis
Background in a regulated industry such as medical, aerospace, or automotive with formal V-model development
Familiarity with reliability allocation: MTBF budgeting across subsystems and redundancy analysis for critical functions
Experience leading technical reviews with stakeholders from multiple engineering disciplines