# Staff Hardware Design Engineer

Staff Hardware / Machine Design Engineer Location: Hybrid | Bellevue, WA (downtown) Titles: Principal (multiple roles available) ; Staff level may be considered Design the Hardware Powering the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure About the Opportunity A well-funded, rapidly growing AI infrastructure company is building a next-generation cloud platform designed to power the full lifecycle of artificial intelligence. The organization is developing a comprehensive AI infrastructure, platform, and services portfolio that supports the full spectrum of AI workloads-including large-scale compute, model training, fine-tuning, inference, and emerging agentic AI applications. Backed by significant long-term investment, the company combines the speed, ownership, and innovation of a startup with the stability and resources of an established parent organization. Engineering teams are intentionally lean, highly collaborative, and AI-native, leveraging modern automation and tooling to build world-class infrastructure capable of supporting the most demanding AI workloads. We're seeking a Staff Hardware / Machine Design Engineer to lead the design of next-generation GPU server and rack infrastruct

- **Id**: 16841
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/designworks-talent-hardware-machine-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bellevue, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-21T15:19:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T04:00:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 107
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5921
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: yes

## Company

- **Id**: 5026
- **Name**: Designworks Talent
- **Domain**: designworkstalent.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/designworks-talent>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.125
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 92
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 149000
- **Max usd**: 275000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 563

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 107

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-07-21T15:19:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 21
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.471
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 106
- **Expected fill days**: 92
- **Reasons**: conf:3, agency, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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