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Our products need to work flawlessly in the field, and delivering them requires tight coordination across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain. We are building the next generation of Meter hardware, and this role sits at the center of that execution.\nWe are hiring a Hardware Engineer to drive the development of our hardware from concept through mass production. This role is not just about tracking timelines; it’s about owning the end-to-end execution of complex programs, aligning cross-functional teams, and ensuring that every detail-from system architecture to manufacturing readiness-is thoughtfully planned and delivered.\nYou will work closely with our JDM partners and internal teams to translate ideas into shipped products, balancing speed, quality, and performance.\nYour work will directly shape how reliably and efficiently we bring new hardware to market, helping us scale our product portfolio while maintaining the high standards our customers expect.\nWhat success looks like\nChampion the delivery of world-class hardware: You will take pride in driving hardware programs from initial concept through every milestone (EVT/DVT/PVT) to a flawless production launch, consistently hitting your targets with precision.\n\nBring clarity to complex challenges: You thrive in the complex and exciting world of hardware development, using your technical expertise and sharp communication skills to turn complex programs into clear, actionable timelines. You love fostering a culture of ownership across our internal teams and JDM partners.\n\nUnite and empower cross-functional teams: You act as the heartbeat of the project, ensuring our firmware, mechanical, supply chain, and operations teams are perfectly aligned, unblocked, and empowered to make swift, high-impact decisions.\n\nMaster the art of proactive problem-solving: You have a \"get-it-done\" mindset, identifying risks and evaluating tradeoffs early to clear the path for success. You anticipate challenges and drive solutions that protect the schedule, cost, and peak performance of our hardware.\n\nBuild the best: You are joining a team that refuses to settle for anything less than excellence-you will be instrumental in shipping the most advanced, industry-leading networking hardware on the market.\n\nWhat your day-to-day will look like\nYou won’t just be managing spreadsheets-you’ll be at the heart of our hardware ecosystem, surrounded by the very tech we’re pioneering. Your day-to-day is a blend of high-level strategy and deep-dive technical problem solving.\nOwn the Lifecycle: You’ll be the pulse of our hardware programs, driving execution from the first EVT prototype through DVT and PVT with a relentless focus on hitting milestones without compromising quality.\n\nBridge the Gap with JDM Partners: Act as our primary technical voice with JDM partners, collaborating on everything from core system architecture and requirements to the nitty-gritty of build schedules.\n\nChampion the \"How\" and \"When\": You’ll lead program reviews that people actually look forward to-surfacing risks early, smashing through blockers, and ensuring everyone on the team knows exactly where the goalposts are.\n\nThe Ultimate Collaborator: You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with mechanical and firmware engineers, diving into design reviews and validation plans to ensure our hardware is as robust as it is innovative.\n\nOperational Orchestration: From supply chain to deployment, you’ll sync with our operations teams to ensure we aren’t just building a great product, but that we’re ready to manufacture and scale it seamlessly.\n\nGet Into the Weeds: You’re never \"too senior\" to help. Whether it’s a late-night schematic review, a critical component decision, or debugging a stubborn build issue on the factory floor, you’re ready to jump in.\n\nGlobal Travel: You’ll travel to Taiwan to collaborate in person with world-class manufacturing and design teams, turning ideas on a paper or screen into reality.\n\nWho you are\nWe are searching for someone who wants to do the most ambitious work of their career. This is what makes you the best fit for our team:\nYou take an incredible amount of pride in doing great work and building lasting hardware\n\nYou have a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field\n\nYou are comfortable reading schematics, understanding PCB layout fundamentals, and engaging in system architecture discussions and tradeoffs\n\nYou have a solid understanding of the hardware development process (design, bring-up, validation, and manufacturing)\n\nYou are highly organized and detail-oriented, able to track multiple workstreams and keep programs moving forward\n\nYou take ownership of your work and proactively follow through on open issues, risks, and dependencies\n\nYou’re comfortable working with external partners (JDM/suppliers/vendors) and learning how to manage them effectively\n\nYou are curious, detail-oriented, and open to feedback\n\nYou communicate your ideas clearly and work well across disciplines\n\nYou enjoy prototyping, testing, and refining designs through interaction\n\nWhy Meter?\nThe internet runs the world. Every purchase you make, video call you join, it's all packets flowing through networks. But those networks haven’t changed for decades. They’re brittle, complex, and surprisingly hard to set up in an enterprise space.\nWe started Meter to build better networks. We had to build everything from the ground-up: designing and building our own enterprise hardware, intuitive software, and streamlined operations to deliver great outcomes for our customers. Today, we build and deploy these networks at scale. Ambitious companies and enduring institutions like Bridgewater, Lyft, Reddit, rely on Meter to keep their thousands of employees and locations online and productive.\nOur bet with Meter is simple: we will all use the internet more than we do today. We believe we have the definitive networking stack in place to enable business to do so as seamlessly and reliably as any modern utility.\nCompensation\nThe estimated base salary for this role is between $145,000 - $250,000\n\nAdditionally, this role is eligible to participate in Meter's equity plan.\n\n--\nBy applying to this job you acknowledge that you've read and understood Meter's Job Applicant Privacy Notice.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6392,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"},{"name":"Taiwan","iso":"TW","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Managed Network Services","Network Equipment"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T01:41:48Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":83,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.833,"p_room":1,"age_days":17,"expected_fill_days":56,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":250000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/meter-hardware-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/meter-hardware-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T04:43:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6564,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3166},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3166"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmeter-hardware-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmeter-hardware-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmeter-hardware-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/meter-hardware-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmeter-hardware-engineer"}]}