Design Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA
Design Engineer jobs in Seattle, Washington cluster in South Lake Union, the Duwamish industrial corridor, and Eastside hubs like Bellevue and Redmond, across aerospace, advanced manufacturing, consumer electronics, and medical devices. Employers hiring right now include Blue Origin, Amazon, and Shield AI. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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WaveWorks makes wireless communication solutions for the next wave of connected devices. WaveWorks' unique technology provides extremely low cost, small form factor, and orders of magnitude lower power consumption, while achieving long operating range and high reliability. WaveWorks is expanding its engineering team and searching for high performing, dedicated individuals to help blaze new trails.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
WaveWorks is looking for a strong software and systems engineer to own the engineering environment its silicon team depends on. That environment is built on the Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens EDA tool suites, alongside other EDA and lab tools. The role covers the software, compute, EDA, data and automation infrastructure behind chip design, bring-up, characterization and test. The goal is an engineering environment that runs like a mature production system: reliable, reproducible and able to scale, with tooling and infrastructure work taken off the IC designers.
The right person will be given authority to direct information and IT infrastructure for a complex, deep-stack technology startup building a multi-faceted platform.
This is not a chip design role and not corporate IT. The engineer is the technical owner of the systems that let analog, digital and verification designers do their jobs, and the software generalist the silicon team turns to when a new need appears. EDA tools are the first priority, but the scope is deliberately broad.
EDA ENVIRONMENT
- Install, configure and maintain the Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens EDA tool suites, their license servers, and other EDA tools, and make them work together reliably in one design environment.
- Own the knowledge of how the design environment is assembled, and document it so that it does not depend on any one designer.
- Open and track support tickets, reproduce and report failures, coordinate work with vendors, and drive issues to closure.
COMPUTE AND ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE
- Run engineering workstations, compute servers, shared storage, and access control.
- Build reproducible development environments, software deployment, and automation, including CI-style workflows around design and test.
TEST AND CHARACTERIZATION SOFTWARE
- Build bench-test automation and instrument-control software for silicon bring-up and characterization.
- Build the pipeline for test data: acquisition, experiment metadata, parsing, storage, statistical analysis, plotting and reports.
- Build regression and automated test suites, and tools to compare results across devices, lots, temperatures, configurations and silicon revisions.
ENGINEERING DATA
- Organize design files, test data, generated artifacts and technical documentation so they are stored predictably, versioned, searchable, tagged with metadata, and available to the right people.
- Own version control across engineering: Git for software, scripts and configuration, and design data management for design libraries and PDKs, with branching, release and access practices the whole team follows.
- Structure engineering data so later analysis and automation are possible.
INTERNAL SOFTWARE
- Write the internal tools, scripts, data pipelines, hardware-control software and build tooling that the silicon team needs, including one-off software to unblock a hardware engineer.
- Use AI coding agents and modern tools as a standard part of the work, to build internal software quickly and remove recurring manual overhead.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- BS in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field plus 3 or more years of software or systems engineering experience, or an MS plus 1 or more years.
- Strong software engineering in Python and at least one other language, with a record of building and maintaining tools other engineers rely on.
- Expert use of Git and version-control workflows, including repository administration.
- Deep Linux systems administration: servers, storage, networking, user and access management, and scripting.
- DevOps practice: configuration management, reproducible environments, containers, CI, and automation of repetitive work.
- Daily, effective use of AI coding agents and assistants in engineering work.
- High autonomy and breadth: able to take ownership of an undefined problem, such as a new test suite, and deliver it without close direction.
- Enjoys building critical infrastructure and wants to own it.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience administering Synopsys, Cadence or Siemens EDA tools, including license servers and design-environment setup.
- Familiarity with IC design flows, PDKs, and design data management.
- Lab automation and instrument control for semiconductor bring-up or characterization.
- Data engineering and statistical analysis of large test data sets.
- Experience working with EDA or other technical vendors on support and escalation.
- Firmware or embedded software experience.
- Experience at a semiconductor or hardware startup.
With its unique technology, WaveWorks is positioned to meet the needs of a plethora of applications of wireless connectivity that are not well served by conventional wireless solutions. Join us as we work to capture this opportunity and become a significant force in wireless.
WaveWorks is committed to a friendly and welcoming working environment, and has a comprehensive benefits package for full time employees. WaveWorks does not discriminate based on race, gender, age, religious affiliation, or any other legally protected status.
WaveWorks is located in downtown Seattle, Washington.
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Who's Hiring
- Blue Origin72

- Amazon25

- Shield AI11

- K2 Space8

- WaveWorks Technologies4

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Design Engineer Jobs in Seattle: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a design engineer job in Seattle?
Focus your search on Seattle's aerospace and defense primes in the Duwamish corridor, consumer electronics firms in South Lake Union, and medical device companies on the Eastside. Candidates with SolidWorks, CATIA, or Creo proficiency stand out, as do those with cross-functional prototyping experience. Attending local IEEE or SAE events in the Seattle area can surface roles before they're widely posted.
Which companies hire design engineers in Seattle?
Employers hiring design engineers in Seattle right now include Blue Origin, Amazon, and Shield AI, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Seattle's mix of aerospace primes, consumer hardware startups, and established medical device manufacturers means openings appear across a wide range of company sizes and product types.
Are there remote design engineer jobs in Seattle?
Yes, though design engineer roles are less remote-friendly than purely analytical positions because hands-on prototyping, lab access, and hardware iteration often require on-site presence. About 86% of design engineer openings tied to Seattle are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, skewing toward systems-level or CAD-heavy roles where collaboration can happen digitally. Physical product and manufacturing roles in the Duwamish area tend to stay on-site.
How can I get a design engineer job in Seattle with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Seattle is targeting contract-to-hire roles at aerospace suppliers and hardware startups in South Lake Union, where teams routinely bring on junior engineers for defined project cycles. Internship pipelines at large Eastside manufacturers are another strong route. A portfolio showing CAD models, tolerance analysis, or prototype builds matters more to Seattle hiring managers than a polished resume alone.
Which industries hire the most design engineers in Seattle?
Most design engineer openings in Seattle sit in Construction & Real Estate, Government & Public Sector, and Consulting & Professional Services, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Seattle's deep aerospace heritage, growing consumer hardware sector, and concentration of medical technology firms on the Eastside make it one of the more diversified design engineering markets in the country.
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