Hardware Engineer Jobs in New York
Hardware Engineer jobs in New York are in active demand, with the state's concentration of defense contractors, semiconductor firms, and consumer electronics companies driving openings at every level from entry-level associate to principal engineer. Most hiring activity centers on New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley corridor, where established employers like IBM, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman maintain significant engineering workforces. The most sought-after specialties in New York include FPGA design, PCB layout, and embedded systems development. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About Nominal
About Hardware Intelligence
What you'll do
- Set the research agenda for Hardware Intelligence: pick the problems, place the bets, and define what winning looks like each quarter.
- Figure out how to store and represent hardware context, so agents reason over telemetry, test campaigns, requirements, designs, and simulations instead of just retrieving them.
- Teach agents to work the tools engineers already use, from CAD to simulation to analysis software, through computer use.
- Connect simulation to the physical world: calibrate simulations against measured results, and use simulations to plan and explain tests.
- Build distributed intelligence: collections of agents that coordinate across programs, fleets, and teams.
- Push intelligence to the edge, with agents and models that run on or near the hardware, on-prem, and air-gapped.
- Build RL environments and verifiers over real engineering work (test campaigns, anomaly investigations, design-versus-measured checks), validate them with hardware experts, and find where they break before we train on them.
- Lead post-training (SFT, RL, distillation) of open-weight models when a model of our own beats a frontier model with better context, and back every call with data.
- Hire and mentor researchers, and publish benchmarks and results worth sharing outside Nominal.
What you'll bring
- 8+ years in ML research or engineering, including a research direction you owned that changed a shipped model or product.
- Deep post-training experience with RL, reward models, or verifiers, and the debugging that comes with them: reward hacking, instability, contamination.
- Statistical rigor: you design experiments that don't fool you, and you know when a metric has stopped meaning anything.
- Research taste: you've picked problems that mattered and killed the ones that didn't.
- The judgment to know when to measure, when to train, and when a better prompt, tool, or context is the answer.
- A track record of setting technical direction across a team and raising the bar for the people around you.
- You build with modern AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day, and stay curious and open to better ways of working. The tools keep changing, and so do we.
- ️ Nice to have
- You've led post-training or evals at a frontier lab or an AI-native company.
- You've published benchmarks, environments, or methods that others use.
- You've worked on computer-use agents, multi-agent systems, or knowledge representation for agents.
- You've worked on scientific ML, simulation, digital twins, or time-series foundation models.
- You've trained or served open-weight models on-device, on-prem, or in air-gapped environments.
- You've worked in test, reliability, or verification engineering for physical systems.
✨ Benefits/Perks
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- ️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- ️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Professional Development Stipend
- ️ In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
- ✈️ Annual company retreat
- 12 weeks parental leave
- Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
- Wellness stipend ($100/month)
- ️ $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 401(k)
- Employee-friendly equity terms
- In-office 5 days per week
Compensation
About Nominal
About Hardware Intelligence
What you'll do
- Set the research agenda for Hardware Intelligence: pick the problems, place the bets, and define what winning looks like each quarter.
- Figure out how to store and represent hardware context, so agents reason over telemetry, test campaigns, requirements, designs, and simulations instead of just retrieving them.
- Teach agents to work the tools engineers already use, from CAD to simulation to analysis software, through computer use.
- Connect simulation to the physical world: calibrate simulations against measured results, and use simulations to plan and explain tests.
- Build distributed intelligence: collections of agents that coordinate across programs, fleets, and teams.
- Push intelligence to the edge, with agents and models that run on or near the hardware, on-prem, and air-gapped.
- Build RL environments and verifiers over real engineering work (test campaigns, anomaly investigations, design-versus-measured checks), validate them with hardware experts, and find where they break before we train on them.
- Lead post-training (SFT, RL, distillation) of open-weight models when a model of our own beats a frontier model with better context, and back every call with data.
- Hire and mentor researchers, and publish benchmarks and results worth sharing outside Nominal.
What you'll bring
- 8+ years in ML research or engineering, including a research direction you owned that changed a shipped model or product.
- Deep post-training experience with RL, reward models, or verifiers, and the debugging that comes with them: reward hacking, instability, contamination.
- Statistical rigor: you design experiments that don't fool you, and you know when a metric has stopped meaning anything.
- Research taste: you've picked problems that mattered and killed the ones that didn't.
- The judgment to know when to measure, when to train, and when a better prompt, tool, or context is the answer.
- A track record of setting technical direction across a team and raising the bar for the people around you.
- You build with modern AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day, and stay curious and open to better ways of working. The tools keep changing, and so do we.
- ️ Nice to have
- You've led post-training or evals at a frontier lab or an AI-native company.
- You've published benchmarks, environments, or methods that others use.
- You've worked on computer-use agents, multi-agent systems, or knowledge representation for agents.
- You've worked on scientific ML, simulation, digital twins, or time-series foundation models.
- You've trained or served open-weight models on-device, on-prem, or in air-gapped environments.
- You've worked in test, reliability, or verification engineering for physical systems.
✨ Benefits/Perks
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- ️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- ️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Professional Development Stipend
- ️ In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
- ✈️ Annual company retreat
- 12 weeks parental leave
- Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
- Wellness stipend ($100/month)
- ️ $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 401(k)
- Employee-friendly equity terms
- In-office 5 days per week
Compensation
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Hardware Engineer Job Market in New York
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Who's Hiring
- Lockheed Martin12
- mecka7
- Voyant Photonics4
- Vanteon Corporation4
- Normal Computing Corporation4
Top Industries Hiring
- Manufacturing
- Technology & Software
- Electronics & Hardware
- Energy
- Retail
What New York Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in hardware engineer jobs across New York.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a closely related field
- Hands-on experience with PCB design tools such as Altium Designer or Cadence Allegro
- Proficiency in FPGA design and HDL languages including VHDL or Verilog
- Demonstrated ability to develop and validate embedded hardware systems or microcontroller platforms
- Experience with hardware testing, debugging, and lab instrumentation including oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
- Strong familiarity with signal integrity principles, power distribution networks, and thermal management techniques
Hardware Engineer Jobs in New York: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a hardware engineer in New York?
A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a closely related discipline is the standard starting point for hardware engineers in New York. The state does not require a specific hardware engineering license for most industry roles, but engineers who stamp public-facing designs may pursue a Professional Engineer license through the New York State Education Department. Building hands-on lab skills, earning certifications in tools like Altium or Cadence, and completing internships with New York defense or semiconductor employers strengthens candidacy significantly.
How much do hardware engineers make in New York?
Hardware engineers in New York earn a median of about $163,470 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $101,530 for the lowest 10% to over $224,490 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire hardware engineers in New York?
Employers hiring hardware engineers in New York right now include Lockheed Martin, mecka, and Voyant Photonics, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. New York's hardware engineering market is anchored by defense contractors and semiconductor manufacturers with long-established engineering campuses on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley.
Which New York cities have the most hardware engineer jobs?
New York, Owego, and Liverpool have the most hardware engineer openings in New York. New York City draws the broadest range of employers from consumer electronics startups to large systems integrators, while Long Island's concentration of defense contractors like Northrop Grumman and L3Harris, along with the Hudson Valley's IBM and GlobalFoundries campuses, drives demand well outside the metro core.
Are there remote hardware engineer jobs in New York?
Yes, but they're rare. Hardware engineering involves lab work, prototyping, and hands-on testing that generally requires on-site presence. About 72% of hardware engineer openings tied to New York are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those openings tend to concentrate in design review, documentation, and systems architecture tasks that can be handled off-site.
How can I get hired as a hardware engineer in New York with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is an internship or new-graduate associate engineer role with a large New York employer such as IBM, Northrop Grumman, or a Long Island defense contractor, many of which run structured early-career engineering programs. Candidates transitioning from adjacent roles like electrical technician, test engineer, or EE lab assistant have a strong footing. A capstone project, senior design portfolio, or hands-on PCB prototype submitted alongside your application gives hiring managers concrete evidence of ability where a short resume cannot.
Where can I find and apply to hardware engineer jobs in New York?
You can find and apply to hardware engineer jobs in New York on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings tied to the state. Find roles that fit your experience and specialization and apply directly to the employer from the listing.
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