Blue Origin is an American aerospace company founded quietly by Jeff Bezos in 2000, and funded for two decades largely out of his own fortune rather than external investment. It flies the suborbital New Shepard vehicle for space tourism and research payloads, and developed the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket alongside the BE-4 engine, which also powers United Launch Alliance's Vulcan. Headquartered in Kent, Washington, the company is building the Blue Moon lunar lander under a NASA Artemis contract and has moved from a deliberately slow development culture toward far more aggressive schedules under chief executive Dave Limp.
HQ: Kent, United States • Manufacturing • Ground Systems • Aerospace Manufacturing • Satellite Manufacturing • Space Services • Space & Aerospace • Launch Services • 5000+ employees • Est. 2000
$230k – $323k per year • Equity • Senior • 7+ years exp • San Diego • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Perl
Verilog
SystemVerilog
Chips/EDA
Synopsys PrimeTime
Synopsys HSPICE
Synopsys Fusion Compiler
Synopsys FineSim
Siemens Eldo
Cadence Virtuoso
Cadence Tempus
$230k – $323k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Seattle • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
SystemVerilog
AI/ML
LLM
Chips/EDA
UVM
Formal Verification
$230k – $323k per year • Equity • Lead • San Diego • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
Python
Verilog
SystemVerilog
C++
AI/ML
LLM
Chips/EDA
Synopsys ZeBu
Cadence Palladium
Siemens Veloce
Synopsys HAPS
Cadence Protium
Cisco Systems is an American networking company founded in 1984 by Stanford computer scientists Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, and headquartered in San Jose, California. It is the largest supplier of enterprise networking equipment in the world, building the routers, switches, wireless access points and optical systems that carry traffic across corporate networks, service providers and data centres, together with the software and silicon that run them. The company has diversified heavily into security, observability through Splunk, collaboration with Webex, and AI infrastructure networking, and now earns a growing share of revenue from software subscriptions rather than hardware sales.
HQ: San Jose, United States • Communication & Collaboration • Cloud Computing • Hardware • Cybersecurity • Network Equipment • Telecommunications • Enterprise Networks • Log Analytics • AI Infrastructure • 5000+ employees • Est. 1984
$126k – $203k per year • Equity • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Jose, Austin, Alpharetta, Milpitas, New York, United States) • High School Diploma • Full-Time • Middle
Python
C++
C
Bash
C
Valgrind
U-Boot
DevOps
RTOS
CI/CD
Git
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Chips/EDA
JTAG Debuggers
$187k – $268k per year • Equity • Lead • 8+ years exp • San Jose • Austin • Seattle • Carlsbad • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
Verilog
SystemVerilog
Perl
Chips/EDA
Synopsys PrimeTime
Tessent
Synopsys TestMAX
$184k – $303k per year • Equity • Lead • 8+ years exp • San Jose • Dallas • Tempe • Cary • Carlsbad • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Ansys HFSS
Cadence Sigrity
Keysight ADS
Optiv is a cybersecurity solutions integrator serving large enterprises. It advises on strategy, deploys vendor technologies and runs managed security services. The company was formed by merging two established security resellers.
HQ: Denver, United States • Financial Services • Information Security • Cybersecurity • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015
≈ $82k – $163k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Atlanta • Tampa • Overland Park • Fort Worth • Nashville • Remote (United States) • Associate's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
SQL
DevOps
Splunk
Cybersecurity
Crowdstrike
SentinelOne
Cortex XDR
Carbon Black
Management
Confluence
Jira
SharePoint
HQ: Huntsville, United States • 201-500 employees • Est. 2007
≈ $106k – $220k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 10+ years exp • Huntsville • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Master's Degree • Secret • Senior
At ITAC, we put people and family first. We build lasting relationships with our employees and clients, earning their trust, sharing common values, and collaborating to solve complex industrial problems. Clients are an integral part of our ITA...
Nashville • Norfolk • Raleigh • Wilmington • Lexington • Industrial Design • Industrial Engineering • Science & Engineering • 201-500 employees • Est. 1988
≈ $99k – $204k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Microsoft Excel
Design
AutoCAD
≈ $88k – $209k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
Microsoft Excel
Design
AutoCAD
Northrop Grumman is an American defence contractor whose oldest predecessor was founded in 1939, and which took its present form through the 1994 combination of Northrop and Grumman. It builds strategic systems including the B-21 Raider bomber and the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile programme, military and civil space systems, radars and electronic warfare equipment, autonomous aircraft, and mission systems and software for the United States armed forces and allied governments. Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it earns the large majority of its revenue from the American government and employs close to one hundred thousand people.
HQ: Falls Church, United States • Defense Manufacturing • Space & Aerospace • National Security • Government • Military • 5000+ employees • Est. 1939
$169k – $254k per year • Staff+ • 12+ years exp • Huntsville • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Secret • Principal
$153k – $229k per year • Lead • 12+ years exp • United States • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Top Secret • Staff
$136k – $204k per year • Senior • 8+ years exp • Huntsville • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Secret • Senior
LeoLabs is a space situational awareness company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and founded in 2016 as a spin-off from SRI International. The company operates a global network of phased array radars that track satellites and debris in low Earth orbit, publishing conjunction warnings and orbit determination data. It sells to satellite operators, insurers, and defense agencies that need independent tracking of objects and manoeuvres above the atmosphere.
HQ: Menlo Park, United States • Military • Ground Systems • Earth Observation • Space Defense • Space & Aerospace • Space Services • Est. 2016
up to $177k per year • Equity • Senior • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Senior
A leader in grid reliability and resiliency, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe for over 50 years. EPE's client-centric approach delivers unmatched expertise throughout the project lifecycle, with a platform of comprehensive services and proprietary solutions spanning utility engineering, grid and resource integration, reliability and compliance, digitalization, and grid analytics, as well as innovative software partnership with its sister company ENER-I.AI, Inc. Committed to designing and developing the grid of the future, EPE's highly experienced team of detail-oriented consultants are passionate about helping clients address complex engineering and grid modeling challenges, bridge gaps, and gain visibility into the evolving complexities of the grid.
HQ: Austin, United States • Smart Grid • Power Grid • Energy & Utilities • 1001-5000 employees
≈ $87k – $168k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States, Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Middle
Intern • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Intern
NVIDIA is an American technology company founded in 1993 that invented the graphics processing unit and has become the dominant supplier of accelerated computing platforms for artificial intelligence. Its portfolio spans data centre GPUs and systems built on the Hopper and Blackwell architectures, GeForce consumer graphics, automotive and robotics platforms, high-speed networking acquired with Mellanox, and the CUDA software stack that binds the ecosystem together. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company sells to cloud providers, enterprises, research institutions and gamers worldwide and is one of the most valuable listed businesses on the Nasdaq.
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Autonomous Driving • Information Technology • Artificial Intelligence • Computer Components • AI Infrastructure • AI Chips & Accelerators • Semiconductors • 5000+ employees • Est. 1993
$232k – $368k per year • Lead • 15+ years exp • In office (Santa Clara, Westford, Austin, Hillsboro, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Principal
Verilog
C++
SystemVerilog
VHDL
AI/ML
AutoGen
LangChain
Reinforcement Learning
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
CrewAI
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Chips/EDA
Formal Verification
$168k – $265k per year • Senior • 8+ years exp • In office (Durham, Hillsboro, Santa Clara, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
SystemVerilog
Python
Perl
DevOps
HPC
Chips/EDA
UVM
$184k – $288k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • In office (Santa Clara, Austin, Hillsboro, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Architect
Trilon is an infrastructure consulting platform that brings together engineering, planning and design firms working on transportation, water, energy and environmental projects across North America, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Launched in January 2022 with Waggoner Engineering as founding partner, it has grown by adding firms such as DRMP, The Mannik & Smith Group, Alta Planning + Design and Fehr Graham, and reports about 2,100 employees in 58 offices. Its openings at partner firms include traffic, roadway and civil engineers, water engineers, survey and SUE technicians, drillers, construction managers and project managers.
HQ: Denver, United States • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2022
$150k – $180k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Medtronic is one of the largest medical device manufacturers in the world, founded in a Minneapolis garage in 1949 as a repair shop for hospital equipment before building the first wearable cardiac pacemaker. Its portfolio now spans cardiac rhythm devices, heart valves, neuromodulation and neurosurgery, surgical stapling and robotics, spinal implants and diabetes management systems sold in more than one hundred and fifty countries. The company is legally domiciled in Ireland after its 2015 combination with Covidien, while its operational headquarters and most of its research remain in Minnesota.
HQ: Minneapolis, United States • HQ: Dublin, Ireland • Medical & Healthcare Robotics • Digital Health • Medical Devices • Robotics • Manufacturing • Health Care • 5000+ employees • Est. 1949
≈ $102k – $211k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 8+ years exp • Saint Louis • Remote (United States) • High School Diploma • Full-Time • Senior
Stripe is a financial infrastructure company founded in 2010 by the Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, dual-headquartered in South San Francisco and Dublin. Its APIs let businesses accept payments, run marketplaces, issue cards, manage subscriptions and handle tax and compliance without building banking integrations themselves, and it processes well over a trillion dollars of volume a year for customers ranging from startups to the largest technology companies. Beyond payments the company has expanded into treasury and issuing, revenue and finance automation, stablecoin infrastructure through its Bridge acquisition, and fraud prevention powered by its own machine learning models.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • HQ: Dublin, Ireland • Billing & Invoicing • Credit Cards • Software • Cybersecurity • Blockchain & Crypto • Fraud Detection • Stablecoins • Commerce • Financial Services • FinTech • Payments • 5000+ employees • Est. 2010
≈ $206k – $387k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Chicago • Remote (United States) • Staff
≈ $156k – $324k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • New York • Remote (United States) • Senior
Positron AI builds purpose-built inference servers for large language models, aiming for much higher energy efficiency than general-purpose GPU systems. Its Atlas hardware uses field-programmable logic and a memory-centric design to serve transformer models at high token throughput. The company was founded in 2023 and assembles its systems in the United States.
HQ: Reno, United States • AI Infrastructure • AI Compute & Inference • AI Chips & Accelerators • 1-10 employees • Est. 2023
$150k – $250k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Synopsys PrimeTime
Ansys RedHawk
$200k – $300k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Rust
C++
Haskell
SystemC
AI/ML
Quantization
DevOps
QEMU
$200k – $300k per year • Lead • 15+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Architect
Mixture of Experts
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
Bright Vision Technologies is an IT consulting, enterprise technology services, and workforce solutions enterprise. Headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States, the minority-owned firm specializes in technology staffing, cybersecurity, application management, and digital product engineering. Founded in 2020, the enterprise delivers specialized staffing and IT services alongside proprietary automation and AI software - including its flagship enterprise talent intelligence platform, Lumina - serving clients across information technology, defense, healthcare, government, and manufacturing sectors.
HQ: Bridgewater, United States • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2020
$80k – $100k per year • Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
C++
SystemVerilog
DevOps
HPC
Chips/EDA
UVM
$95k – $120k per year • Senior • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Python
C++
Databases
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
InfluxDB
AI/ML
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Robotics
Digital Twin
IoT
MQTT
OPC UA
$100k – $150k per year • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
C++
Databases
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
InfluxDB
AI/ML
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Robotics
Digital Twin
IoT
MQTT
OPC UA
Vision and Mission Home Vision and Mission Vision and Mission Vision The management of SAPSOL Technologies Inc.
HQ: Martin, United States • 501-1000 employees
≈ $91k – $217k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States)
≈ $144k – $298k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Remote (United States) • Contractor • Staff
≈ $100k – $236k per year (Estimated) • Wichita • Remote (United States)
Vanderlande is a Dutch company founded in 1949 and headquartered in Veghel. It builds automated baggage handling, parcel sortation and warehouse systems together with the software that runs them. Its systems operate in hundreds of airports and distribution centres worldwide.
HQ: 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands • Digital Media • Logistics • Information Technology • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1949
≈ $94k – $195k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 8+ years exp • United States • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • 1-10 employees
$140k – $151k per year • Lead • 15+ years exp • Paris • Remote (United States, France) • PhD • Full-Time • Principal • French: C1
≈ $46k – $112k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 15+ years exp • Remote (United States, South Korea) • Full-Time • Principal
GE Vernova is an American energy company created in April 2024 when General Electric split into three, taking the power, wind and electrification businesses. It builds and services gas turbines that generate a substantial share of the world's electricity, onshore and offshore wind turbines, grid equipment including transformers and high-voltage transmission, and nuclear technology through GE Hitachi and its BWRX-300 small modular reactor. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company sits at the centre of two simultaneous demand shocks: the electrification of transport and industry, and the electricity requirements of large-scale artificial intelligence data centres.
HQ: Cambridge, United States • ESG & Carbon Accounting • Artificial Intelligence • Nuclear Engineering • Smart Grid • Wind Energy • Industrial Machinery • Power Grid • Science & Engineering • Manufacturing • Nuclear Energy • Energy & Utilities • 5000+ employees • Est. 2024
$100k – $167k per year • Senior • 6+ years exp • United States • Remote (United States) • Relocation • High School Diploma • Full-Time • Senior
$89k – $149k per year • Lead • 3+ years exp • United States • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
MATLAB
Fortran
C++
Intel is an American semiconductor company founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It created the x86 instruction set that still underpins most personal computers and servers, and designs and manufactures processors, chipsets, discrete graphics, networking silicon and AI accelerators. Unlike most of its competitors the company owns its fabrication plants, and it is investing heavily in Intel Foundry to manufacture chips for external customers while rebuilding its process technology leadership.
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Hardware • Manufacturing • Data Centers • Computer Components • Semiconductor Manufacturing • Semiconductors • 5000+ employees • Est. 1968
≈ $87k – $173k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (Hillsboro, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Junior
≈ $189k – $352k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 12+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Santa Clara, Fort Collins, Hillsboro, Folsom, Austin, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Architect
≈ $169k – $339k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 10+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Hillsboro, Folsom, Santa Clara, Austin, Phoenix, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Verilog
SystemVerilog
AI/ML
Physical AI
Dedicated to making data faster and safer, Rambus creates innovative hardware and services that drive technology advancements to data centers, IoT, AI & more!
San Jose • Bengaluru • Hillsboro • Rotterdam • Sofia • Information Technology • Internet of Things • Data Centers • 1001-5000 employees
$107k – $199k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Hillsboro, United States) • Senior
Python
Verilog
SystemVerilog
Perl
TCL Scripting
$127k – $288k per year • Equity • Lead • 10+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Hillsboro, United States) • Principal
Python
Verilog
SystemVerilog
Perl
TCL Scripting
Chips/EDA
UVM
$86k – $160k per year • Equity • Remote/Hybrid (Hillsboro, United States) • Bachelor's Degree
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| Middle |
18 |
$130K |
$138K |
$183K |
| Senior |
78 |
$160K |
$195K |
$242K |
| Staff |
12 |
$237K |
$250K |
$288K |
| Lead |
35 |
$175K |
$268K |
$323K |
| All levels |
157 |
$152K |
$200K |
$265K |
Based only on the listings that state pay. Gross annual amounts, converted to USD so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Relocation package
13%
38
The market right now
Alion currently lists 287 open Hardware Engineer jobs in Hillsboro from 114 companies. 52 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 98 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
157 of these Hardware Engineer jobs in Hillsboro state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $152K and $265K a year, with a median of $200K. By level, the median runs middle at $138K, senior at $195K, staff at $250K, and lead at $268K. The step from middle to lead is worth about 1.9x on median pay. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are United States (61), France (1), Spain (1), and Singapore (1). 84% of the listings are fully remote and a further 7% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Hardware Engineer jobs in Hillsboro right now are Intel Corporation (25), NVIDIA (19), Blue Origin (15), Northrop Grumman (12), Olsson (12), and Bright Vision Technologies (10). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are Python (84), C++ (72), SystemVerilog (48), Verilog (33), AutoCAD (25), MATLAB (23), UVM (22), and Perl (21). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current Hardware Engineer jobs in Hillsboro, 2 state visa sponsorship, 38 offer a relocation package, and 73 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
