Hardware Engineer Salary in San Francisco

Hardware Engineer jobs in San Francisco hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $210,827/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Dolby Laboratories

dolby.com
dolby.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Displays & Panel Technology • Headphones & Audio • Cinema • Audio Production • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1965 • NYSE: DLB • Trust B • Hiring 74
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Displays & Panel Technology • Headphones & Audio • Cinema • Audio Production • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1965 • NYSE: DLB • Trust B • Hiring 74
Dolby Laboratories develops audio and imaging technologies licensed to cinemas, broadcasters and device makers worldwide. Its noise reduction, surround sound, Atmos and Vision formats are built into televisions, phones, cars and thousands of screens. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered on Market Street in San Francisco.
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Sr FPGA Design Engineer

≈ $138k – $253k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 3+ years exp • Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Senior
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Staff Electrical Engineer

≈ $167k – $305k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Staff
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Orion Sleep

orionsleep.com
orionsleep.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Mattresses & Sleep Products • Startup • Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Mattresses & Sleep Products • Startup • Hiring 3
The Orion Sleep System uses dual-zone cooling and AI-powered thermoregulation to optimize your sleep.
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Senior Hardware Engineer, Electronics

≈ $139k – $253k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
C
C
Embedded C
DevOps
RTOS
Wi-Fi
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UST

ust.com
ust.com • HQ: Aliso Viejo, United States • Information Technology • IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1998 • Trust B • Hiring 761, 75 new
HQ: Aliso Viejo, United States • Information Technology • IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1998 • Trust B • Hiring 761, 75 new
UST is a leading global digital technology and transformation services company that provides innovative solutions to enterprise clients worldwide. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, the firm specializes in digital consulting, cloud infrastructure, product engineering, and cybersecurity. Founded in 1998, it partners with major organizations across diverse industries to accelerate technological modernization and build agile, scalable business models.
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SystemC Modeling Developer (Remote)

≈ $91k – $182k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
SystemC
C++
DevOps
QEMU
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Midjourney

midjourney.com
midjourney.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Foundation Models • Generative Image • Est. 2021 • Likely startup • Trust C • Hiring 14
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Foundation Models • Generative Image • Est. 2021 • Likely startup • Trust C • Hiring 14
Midjourney is an independent research laboratory whose text to image models set the visual quality benchmark for generative imagery for several years. Its products run inside a community platform where millions of users generate and refine images together, an unusual distribution choice that shaped the culture around generative art. The company remains self funded, has never raised outside venture capital and operates with a very small research team; its models are trained and served entirely on infrastructure the company controls.
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Principal Electrical Engineer (Design Lead)

$241k – $250k per year • Lead • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Principal
Verilog
SystemVerilog
VHDL
C++
Python
AI/ML
Midjourney
Chips/EDA
KiCad
MedTech
IEC 60601
Design Controls
Design History File
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Kirin

kirin.com
kirin.com • HQ: Nakano, Japan • Dietary Supplements • Soft Drinks • Brewing & Beer • Est. 1907 • Trust B • Hiring 23
HQ: Nakano, Japan • Dietary Supplements • Soft Drinks • Brewing & Beer • Est. 1907 • Trust B • Hiring 23
Kirin Holdings is a Japanese beverage, food and health science group best known for Kirin beer. Its businesses include Kirin Brewery and Lion in Australia, soft drinks under Kirin Beverage, the Kyowa Kirin pharmaceutical company and health products such as its LC-Plasma lactic acid bacteria range. It sells in Japan, Asia-Pacific and other markets worldwide. The company is headquartered in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan.
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消费硬件 CG 动态设计师 / CG Motion Designer – Consumer Hardware

Seoul • San Francisco • Buenos Aires • New York • Los Angeles • Remote (United States, China, Argentina, South Korea) • Contractor
Adobe After Effects
Cinema 4D
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Generalist AI

generalistai.com
generalistai.com • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Robotic Software & Control Systems • Robotics AI • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 21, 1 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Robotic Software & Control Systems • Robotics AI • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 21, 1 new
Generalist AI is a robotics foundation model laboratory building general purpose manipulation systems that transfer across tasks and hardware. Its research combines large scale robot data collection with learned policies, aiming at the dexterity needed for everyday physical work rather than narrow industrial automation. The company was founded by researchers from leading robot learning groups and develops both the models and the data collection stack; its founders previously led embodied intelligence research at major industrial laboratories.
Peter Florence · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Andrew Barry · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Andy Zeng · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Ellen Chisa · Director
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Electrical Engineer

$200k – $350k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Rust
C++
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Gemini
GPT-4
Vision-Language-Action
ChatGPT
OpenAI
DevOps
Linux
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Gradient Robotics

gradientrobotics.ai
gradientrobotics.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Robotics AI • Likely startup • Trust B • Hiring 9
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Robotics AI • Likely startup • Trust B • Hiring 9
Gradient Robotics is building autonomous robots for AI infrastructure buildout.
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Open 95 daysTop 25% pay 3 months ago Long shot · 6%

Electrical Engineer

$130k – $170k per year • Junior • 1+ year exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Rust
C
C++
C
Embedded C
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IonQ

ionq.com
ionq.com • HQ: College Park, United States • Quantum Computing Hardware • Est. 2015 • NYSE: IONQ • Trust B • Hiring 126, 15 new
HQ: College Park, United States • Quantum Computing Hardware • Est. 2015 • NYSE: IONQ • Trust B • Hiring 126, 15 new
Chris Monroe and Jungsang Kim created IonQ in 2015 after over 25 years of research. Their preliminary investment amounted to $2 million from the University of Maryland and Duke University, which enabled them to develop trapped ion quantum computers. Within a few years, they constructed two of the most accurate quantum computers in the world, garnering additional funding from Amazon Web Services, Google's GV, and NEA.
David Moehring · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Christopher Monroe · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Jungsang Kim · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Andrew Schoen · Director
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Senior Staff Electrical Engineer

$168k – $220k per year • Staff+ • In office (Louisville, San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Nationals only • Citizenship or vetting required • Staff
Python
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
Quantum
IonQ
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Senior Flight Software Engineer

$146k – $191k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Louisville, San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Nationals only • Citizenship or vetting required • Senior
C++
Python
DevOps
RTOS
Linux
Quantum
IonQ
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Staff Electrical Hardware Design Engineer

$146k – $192k per year • Staff+ • In office (Louisville, San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Nationals only • Citizenship or vetting required • Staff
Python
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
Quantum
IonQ
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Anvil Robotics

anvil.bot
anvil.bot • San Francisco • Taipei • Robotic Components & Sensors • Robotic Software & Control Systems • 11-50 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 6
San Francisco • Taipei • Robotic Components & Sensors • Robotic Software & Control Systems • 11-50 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 6
Anvil Robotics is building a hardware and software platform for physical AI, offering ready-to-run devkits for training OpenARM and OpenYAM robots from day one. It owns and operates its own manufacturing and hires heads of robot hardware and marketing, software engineers for the robot platform and data collection, and mechanical engineers, with teams in San Francisco and Taipei. The company is based in the United States.
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Head of Robot Hardware

≈ $240k – $435k per year (Estimated) • Head+ • 8+ years exp • Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Architect
Linux
Robotics
EtherCAT
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Sesame AI

sesame.com
sesame.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Conversational AI • Speech & Audio AI • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 22
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Conversational AI • Speech & Audio AI • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 22
Sesame AI is a company founded in 2022 that develops conversational speech models with unusually natural timing and prosody. Its demonstration voices drew wide attention for sounding present in a conversation rather than reading text aloud, and it released a base speech model openly. The company is also building lightweight eyewear intended to keep an assistant available throughout the day.
Ankit Kumar · Executive Officer · decision-maker
David Goldhill · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Joel Cutler · Director
Michael Lynton · Director
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Hardware Test Automation Engineer

$150k – $260k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, Bellevue, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Synthetic Data
Voice Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
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Electrical Engineer

$175k – $280k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, Bellevue, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Voice Agents
Machine Learning
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Stripe

stripe.com
stripe.com • HQ: South San Francisco, United States • Payment Processing & Gateways • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010 • Trust B • Hiring 686, 40 new
HQ: South San Francisco, United States • Payment Processing & Gateways • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010 • Trust B • Hiring 686, 40 new
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.
John Collison · Co-Founder & President · decision-maker
Patrick Collison · Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Robert McIntosh · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Carmel Galvin · Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Customer Success Manager, Radar

≈ $184k – $336k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, United States) • Senior
Machine Learning
Management
Stripe
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Azora

azora.space
azora.space • HQ: San Francisco, United States • 201-500 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 13
HQ: San Francisco, United States • 201-500 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 13
High-speed connectivity shouldn’t stop where fiber ends. Azora is extending the world’s data infrastructure beyond the physical network, using light to carry terabytes from the edge to orbit – and beyond.
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Mixed-Signal Engineer

≈ $113k – $220k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years exp • Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Verilog
SystemVerilog
VHDL
Chips/EDA
Cadence Allegro
SpaceTech
ECSS
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iRhythm Technologies

irhythmtech.com
irhythmtech.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Patient Monitoring • Cardiovascular Devices • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2006 • Trust B • Hiring 61, 5 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Patient Monitoring • Cardiovascular Devices • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2006 • Trust B • Hiring 61, 5 new
iRhythm Technologies is a digital healthcare company headquartered in San Francisco that provides the Zio ambulatory cardiac monitoring service, combining wearable ECG patches with FDA-cleared AI analysis and clinical reporting to help physicians diagnose arrhythmias. Founded in 2006 and listed on Nasdaq, it runs manufacturing and clinical operations in Cypress and Orange, California, Houston and Deerfield, Illinois, operates a customer care center in Manila and serves markets including the United Kingdom, Europe and Japan. Its openings cover territory managers and regional sales directors, R&D and test engineering co-ops, quality engineers, manufacturing supervisors and finance roles.
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Senior Manager, Firmware Engineering

≈ $125k – $248k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 3+ years exp • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • GMP / cleanroom • Senior
CI/CD
MedTech
ISO 13485
IEC 62304
Design Controls
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Droyd Robotics

droydrobotics.com
droydrobotics.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Construction Robotics • Startup • Trust D • Hiring 23
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Construction Robotics • Startup • Trust D • Hiring 23
Tell Us About Your Environment. Drop us a note about your construction environment or your operations and maintenance pain points.
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Electrical Engineer (PCB / Low Voltage)

$140k – $195k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
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Pronto.ai

pronto.ai
pronto.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Computer Vision • Autonomous Driving • Mining & Heavy Industry Robotics • 201-500 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 33, 4 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Computer Vision • Autonomous Driving • Mining & Heavy Industry Robotics • 201-500 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 33, 4 new
Pronto.ai is an autonomous vehicle technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2018 by Anthony Levandowski. The company builds camera based autonomy that retrofits onto heavy haul trucks, aimed at off road industrial sites rather than public roads. It deploys its systems in quarries and mines, where autonomous haulage runs on fixed routes under controlled site conditions.
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Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

$182k – $230k per year • Equity • Senior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
CANopen
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Capgemini

capgemini.com
capgemini.com • HQ: Paris, France • Management Consulting • Engineering Services • Systems Integrators • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1967 • IT services • Trust B • Hiring 4506, 374 new
HQ: Paris, France • Management Consulting • Engineering Services • Systems Integrators • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1967 • IT services • Trust B • Hiring 4506, 374 new
Capgemini is a French information technology services and consulting group founded in Grenoble in 1967 by Serge Kampf, and one of the largest IT service providers in the world. It designs, builds and runs systems for large enterprises and governments across some fifty countries, with a delivery workforce concentrated in India and a European client base heavier than most of its competitors. The group is organised into Capgemini Invent for strategy and design, Capgemini Engineering for research and development services acquired with Altran, and Sogeti for local technology services, and it has reoriented its portfolio around cloud migration, data platforms and generative AI.
Paul Hermelin · former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Nive Bhagat · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Aiman Ezzat · Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Serge Kampf · Founder · founder
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Hardware Test and Validation Engineer

≈ $147k – $267k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
Databases
Databricks
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Analog Layout Engineer

≈ $118k – $215k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 8+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
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Elve Speed

elvespeed.com
elvespeed.com • HQ: Davis, United States • Optics & Photonic Components • RF & Wireless Hardware • 51-200 employees • Likely startup • Trust D • Hiring 13, 1 new
HQ: Davis, United States • Optics & Photonic Components • RF & Wireless Hardware • 51-200 employees • Likely startup • Trust D • Hiring 13, 1 new
Elve designs high-efficiency mmWave TWTAs for communications, defense, and space. Unlocking scalable power amplification at lower costs and faster delivery times.
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RF Applications Engineer

$80k – $170k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
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Electrical Engineer - Power Electronics

$85k – $200k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • GMP / cleanroom • Hazardous materials
MATLAB
Python
Chips/EDA
LTspice
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Skip

skipwithjoy.com
skipwithjoy.com • HQ: New York, United States • Exoskeletons & Wearable Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2016 • Trust A • Hiring 5
HQ: New York, United States • Exoskeletons & Wearable Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2016 • Trust A • Hiring 5
A World With Nobody Left Behind Moving our bodies is one of the best ways to feel healthy, confident, and connected to the world around us. It's also…hard.
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Hardware Reliability Engineer

$160k – $210k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • GMP / cleanroom • Senior
FMEA
MedTech
ISO 13485
IEC 60601
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Motor Control Firmware Engineer

≈ $151k – $276k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Python
DevOps
Linux
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Built Robotics

builtrobotics.com
builtrobotics.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Industrial Robotics • Construction Management Software • 51-200 employees • Est. 2016 • Trust B • Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Industrial Robotics • Construction Management Software • 51-200 employees • Est. 2016 • Trust B • Hiring 7
Built Robotics retrofits heavy construction equipment with sensors and control software so excavators and piling rigs can operate autonomously. Its Exosystem installs onto standard machines, letting a contractor keep the fleet it already owns. The technology is used to dig trenches and drive foundation piles for solar farms.
Noah Ready-Campbell · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Forest Baskett · Director
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Hardware Engineer

$120k – $175k per year • Equity • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
Python
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
ROS
Design
SolidWorks
Fusion 360
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Human Archive

humanarchive.ai
humanarchive.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Training Data & Annotation • 11-50 employees • Est. 2025 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 21
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Training Data & Annotation • 11-50 employees • Est. 2025 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 21
Human Archive is building data infrastructure for physical AI, capturing how people perform real-world tasks. It designs its own hardware, deploys cameras and sensors in working environments and trains models on the resulting footage. The data is aimed at robotics teams that lack examples of skilled manual work.
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Embedded / Electrical Engineer

$12k – $15k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Embodied AI
Chips/EDA
KiCad
Cadence Allegro
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Firmware Engineer

$12k – $15k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
C++
Python
AI/ML
Embodied AI
DevOps
RTOS
WebSockets
Linux
Azure
AWS
Robotics
ROS
Foxglove Studio
Sensor Fusion
IoT
MQTT
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Hardware Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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