Top Entry Level Hardware Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Supports end-to-end qualification, deployment, and maintenance of Cloudflare’s global server fleet. Responsibilities include defining server requirements, evaluating components, validating electrical, thermal, and mechanical designs, integrating hardware with provisioning and fleet-management tools, optimizing hardware/software performance, deploying firmware updates, troubleshooting hardware issues, maintaining automation, and coordinating with engineering, sourcing, capacity planning, and vendors.

Assist with embedded hardware design for FPGA- and microprocessor-based systems, including schematics, PCB development, component selection, prototyping, testing, debugging, validation, and documentation. Collaborate with firmware, manufacturing, quality, and test teams throughout the product lifecycle. Support automated testing, engineering data analysis, AI-assisted workflows, and sustaining engineering activities while contributing to design reviews, root-cause analysis, and product verification.

Design digital hardware and FPGA systems for test and measurement products. Responsibilities include developing register maps, implementing FPGA logic, creating testbenches, performing timing analysis, designing digital boards, supporting signal integrity simulations, and validating prototype hardware. The engineer collaborates across disciplines, contributes to project planning, documents design intent, and supports board bring-up and troubleshooting.

Designs and maintains high-speed digital hardware for Nokia Service Router products. Responsibilities include ultra-high-speed PCB circuit design, simulation, verification testing, board bring-up, laboratory debugging, and taking complex board designs from concept through production release. The role requires collaboration with engineering teams, ownership of hardware integrity, and practical use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and digital debugging tools.