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As of 23 September, 7 hardware engineer roles are open in San Francisco at 1 employers.
Among the hardware engineer roles listed on the board for San Francisco, postings are spread across recent weeks, with the largest share being older openings and a meaningful portion from the past month or so. None were added in the current week. All openings come from a small group of employers, with the five largest hirers accounting for every role listed here, which reflects the concentrated nature of AI hardware hiring in the Bay Area. Roles that disclose their work arrangement lean heavily toward hybrid working, with the remainder being fully on-site; no remote positions appear among those stating a preference. Skills sample sizes are modest, so the signals they carry should be read with that in mind.
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Hardware engineers design, prototype and validate the physical systems that underpin computing products, working across areas such as chip architecture, PCB design, power delivery, signal integrity and thermal management. In a city whose employer base includes AI-focused organisations such as Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as data platform companies like Databricks, hardware engineers often work on accelerators, custom silicon or inference infrastructure where performance-per-watt constraints are tight. The presence of UCSF's Mission Bay biotech cluster adds demand from medical-device and life-sciences hardware teams. Work typically spans early design through to bring-up and qualification, with close collaboration between hardware, firmware and systems engineers.
Mentions in role descriptions point toward experience with digital or mixed-signal design, familiarity with simulation and verification tools, and an ability to work across the hardware-software boundary. Signal integrity and power analysis appear alongside an expectation that candidates can take a design from schematic through to physical validation. Given the small sample of descriptions available on the board, these signals are indicative rather than definitive.
The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels — not an average and not a market rate.
Among the roles on the board that state a work arrangement, a clear majority are hybrid, splitting time between home and an employer's San Francisco premises. The remainder are fully on-site. No hardware engineer roles listed here are advertised as fully remote, which is consistent with the hands-on nature of the work.
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