Remote R&D Hardware Engineer Jobs
Remote R&D Hardware Engineer jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed teams in sectors like consumer electronics, defense technology, semiconductors, and medical devices. Employers hiring remotely right now include True Zero Technologies, TE Connectivity, and Amgen. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Position Overview
True Zero Technologies is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex information technology and cybersecurity initiatives within federal environments. This position is responsible for managing the complete project lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional technical teams, overseeing resources and budgets, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects aligned with customer objectives, contractual requirements, and federal cybersecurity standards.
The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience managing large-scale IT and cybersecurity projects, strong technical knowledge of enterprise infrastructure and cloud environments, and demonstrated expertise in Agile project management methodologies. The candidate must demonstrate exceptional leadership, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate diverse technical teams, and engage effectively with senior government stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions on schedule and within budget.
Job Responsibilities
Job Responsibilities
- Technical Project Management & Lifecycle Oversight: Lead and manage the complete lifecycle of complex IT and cybersecurity projects, including initiation, planning, design, development, programming, testing, implementation, monitoring, and closure. Establish project priorities, coordinate technical activities, and ensure successful execution in alignment with federal customer requirements.
- Project Planning, Scope & Resource Management: Develop comprehensive project management plans defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, resource requirements, budgets, staffing needs, schedules, and major milestones. Assess project dependencies, acquire necessary resources, and establish realistic execution strategies to support successful delivery.
- Agile Project Execution & Delivery Management: Apply Agile methodologies and project management best practices to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and close technical projects. Break complex initiatives into manageable development cycles, prioritize workstreams, and improve team productivity, delivery timelines, and responsiveness to changing requirements.
- Cybersecurity & Engineering Project Coordination: Manage day-to-day execution of technical projects across Security Operations Center (SOC), Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), CI/CD, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, cloud infrastructure, and engineering teams. Coordinate technical dependencies, oversee implementation activities, and ensure alignment across cybersecurity and operational workstreams.
- Agile Ceremonies & Development Team Leadership: Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and stakeholder demonstrations. Coordinate with development and engineering teams to manage enhancements, defects, technical requirements, and architectural dependencies while promoting continuous improvement in delivery processes.
- Project Performance, Risk & Milestone Tracking: Establish and maintain project schedules, performance metrics, risk registers, action items, and deliverable tracking mechanisms. Monitor project progress, identify potential delays or resource constraints, implement corrective actions, and provide timely reporting to leadership and customer stakeholders.
- Budget Management & Operational Oversight: Manage project budgets, resource utilization, staffing allocations, and operational priorities to ensure efficient execution of large-scale IT initiatives. Oversee technical implementation activities involving enterprise systems, application integration, deployment, user support, and training across diverse operational environments.
- Customer Engagement & Stakeholder Coordination: Serve as a primary project coordination point for federal customer stakeholders, technical leadership, business owners, engineering teams, subcontractors, and external partners. Facilitate project planning discussions, communicate technical progress, resolve execution challenges, and obtain stakeholder approval for scope, schedule, cost, and quality management plans.
- Governance, Compliance & Continuous Improvement: Ensure project execution aligns with customer business objectives, contractual obligations, federal cybersecurity requirements, and applicable IT service management practices, including ITIL principles. Maintain project documentation, support governance and compliance activities, and identify opportunities to improve project delivery efficiency, operational effectiveness, and overall service quality.
Job Requirements
Job Requirements
- Technical Project Management Experience: Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience managing information technology projects, including planning, coordinating, budgeting, executing, monitoring, and delivering large-scale, complex technical initiatives. Demonstrated success managing projects involving multiple technical disciplines, significant resource requirements, customer engagement, and strict delivery timelines.
- Professional Certification: Must possess an active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, demonstrating proficiency in industry-standard project management methodologies, processes, tools, and techniques.
- Federal Security Clearance: Must possess and maintain a Non-Sensitive / High Risk Public Trust security clearance (Tier 4/6c), as required to support federal information technology and cybersecurity programs.
- Large-Scale IT Operations & Personnel Management: Proven experience overseeing substantial IT operations and technical project teams, including enterprise user systems, systems integration, application deployment, training activities, and operational support. Demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams consisting of personnel with diverse technical skills, job classifications, and operational responsibilities.
- Enterprise IT, IAM & Cloud Technical Expertise: Strong technical understanding of enterprise information technology infrastructure, Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS GovCloud environments, and cloud-native services. Ability to manage technical projects involving complex system architectures, infrastructure modernization, cloud deployments, and enterprise technology integrations.
- Cybersecurity Operations & Engineering Experience: Demonstrated experience managing projects within cybersecurity environments, including Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), Security Operations Center (SOC) operations, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native security technologies. Understanding of cybersecurity operational requirements, technical dependencies, and compliance considerations within federal environments.
- IT Service Management & ITIL Knowledge: Strong knowledge of IT service management principles and practices, including proficiency with the methodologies, processes, tools, and techniques associated with ITIL Foundation services. Experience incorporating service management best practices into project execution, operational transitions, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
- Agile Development & Application Lifecycle Management: Proven experience managing Agile software development and engineering teams, including facilitating Agile ceremonies, maintaining project backlogs, and coordinating sprint-based delivery. Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and how enhancements, defects, technical requirements, and change requests affect application architecture, integration, and system performance.
- Emerging Technology & Technical Project Leadership: Expert-level knowledge of current and emerging technological advances in computer science, engineering, cloud computing, and enterprise IT systems. Ability to assess technical solutions, understand complex engineering requirements, and provide informed project leadership across evolving technology environments.
- Executive Communication & Government Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated experience preparing executive-level reports, presenting project status and technical information, and communicating risks, recommendations, and project outcomes to senior government officials and organizational leadership.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Project Governance: Demonstrated ability to collaborate with key managers, functional subject matter experts, internal and external project teams, contractors, and subcontractors to develop, negotiate, and secure approval for project scope, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and quality management strategies.
- Project Execution, Monitoring & Delivery Excellence: Proven track record of successfully executing, monitoring, and controlling complex technical projects to achieve high-quality, on-time, and on-budget completion. Experience managing project risks, resolving delivery challenges, implementing corrective actions, and ensuring compliance with established performance expectations and customer requirements.
- Leadership, Organization & Problem-Solving: Strong organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives, prioritize competing requirements, lead diverse technical teams, and maintain accountability for project outcomes in fast-paced federal IT and cybersecurity environments.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Position Overview
True Zero Technologies is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex information technology and cybersecurity initiatives within federal environments. This position is responsible for managing the complete project lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional technical teams, overseeing resources and budgets, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects aligned with customer objectives, contractual requirements, and federal cybersecurity standards.
The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience managing large-scale IT and cybersecurity projects, strong technical knowledge of enterprise infrastructure and cloud environments, and demonstrated expertise in Agile project management methodologies. The candidate must demonstrate exceptional leadership, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate diverse technical teams, and engage effectively with senior government stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions on schedule and within budget.
Job Responsibilities
Job Responsibilities
- Technical Project Management & Lifecycle Oversight: Lead and manage the complete lifecycle of complex IT and cybersecurity projects, including initiation, planning, design, development, programming, testing, implementation, monitoring, and closure. Establish project priorities, coordinate technical activities, and ensure successful execution in alignment with federal customer requirements.
- Project Planning, Scope & Resource Management: Develop comprehensive project management plans defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, resource requirements, budgets, staffing needs, schedules, and major milestones. Assess project dependencies, acquire necessary resources, and establish realistic execution strategies to support successful delivery.
- Agile Project Execution & Delivery Management: Apply Agile methodologies and project management best practices to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and close technical projects. Break complex initiatives into manageable development cycles, prioritize workstreams, and improve team productivity, delivery timelines, and responsiveness to changing requirements.
- Cybersecurity & Engineering Project Coordination: Manage day-to-day execution of technical projects across Security Operations Center (SOC), Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), CI/CD, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, cloud infrastructure, and engineering teams. Coordinate technical dependencies, oversee implementation activities, and ensure alignment across cybersecurity and operational workstreams.
- Agile Ceremonies & Development Team Leadership: Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and stakeholder demonstrations. Coordinate with development and engineering teams to manage enhancements, defects, technical requirements, and architectural dependencies while promoting continuous improvement in delivery processes.
- Project Performance, Risk & Milestone Tracking: Establish and maintain project schedules, performance metrics, risk registers, action items, and deliverable tracking mechanisms. Monitor project progress, identify potential delays or resource constraints, implement corrective actions, and provide timely reporting to leadership and customer stakeholders.
- Budget Management & Operational Oversight: Manage project budgets, resource utilization, staffing allocations, and operational priorities to ensure efficient execution of large-scale IT initiatives. Oversee technical implementation activities involving enterprise systems, application integration, deployment, user support, and training across diverse operational environments.
- Customer Engagement & Stakeholder Coordination: Serve as a primary project coordination point for federal customer stakeholders, technical leadership, business owners, engineering teams, subcontractors, and external partners. Facilitate project planning discussions, communicate technical progress, resolve execution challenges, and obtain stakeholder approval for scope, schedule, cost, and quality management plans.
- Governance, Compliance & Continuous Improvement: Ensure project execution aligns with customer business objectives, contractual obligations, federal cybersecurity requirements, and applicable IT service management practices, including ITIL principles. Maintain project documentation, support governance and compliance activities, and identify opportunities to improve project delivery efficiency, operational effectiveness, and overall service quality.
Job Requirements
Job Requirements
- Technical Project Management Experience: Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience managing information technology projects, including planning, coordinating, budgeting, executing, monitoring, and delivering large-scale, complex technical initiatives. Demonstrated success managing projects involving multiple technical disciplines, significant resource requirements, customer engagement, and strict delivery timelines.
- Professional Certification: Must possess an active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, demonstrating proficiency in industry-standard project management methodologies, processes, tools, and techniques.
- Federal Security Clearance: Must possess and maintain a Non-Sensitive / High Risk Public Trust security clearance (Tier 4/6c), as required to support federal information technology and cybersecurity programs.
- Large-Scale IT Operations & Personnel Management: Proven experience overseeing substantial IT operations and technical project teams, including enterprise user systems, systems integration, application deployment, training activities, and operational support. Demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams consisting of personnel with diverse technical skills, job classifications, and operational responsibilities.
- Enterprise IT, IAM & Cloud Technical Expertise: Strong technical understanding of enterprise information technology infrastructure, Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS GovCloud environments, and cloud-native services. Ability to manage technical projects involving complex system architectures, infrastructure modernization, cloud deployments, and enterprise technology integrations.
- Cybersecurity Operations & Engineering Experience: Demonstrated experience managing projects within cybersecurity environments, including Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), Security Operations Center (SOC) operations, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native security technologies. Understanding of cybersecurity operational requirements, technical dependencies, and compliance considerations within federal environments.
- IT Service Management & ITIL Knowledge: Strong knowledge of IT service management principles and practices, including proficiency with the methodologies, processes, tools, and techniques associated with ITIL Foundation services. Experience incorporating service management best practices into project execution, operational transitions, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
- Agile Development & Application Lifecycle Management: Proven experience managing Agile software development and engineering teams, including facilitating Agile ceremonies, maintaining project backlogs, and coordinating sprint-based delivery. Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and how enhancements, defects, technical requirements, and change requests affect application architecture, integration, and system performance.
- Emerging Technology & Technical Project Leadership: Expert-level knowledge of current and emerging technological advances in computer science, engineering, cloud computing, and enterprise IT systems. Ability to assess technical solutions, understand complex engineering requirements, and provide informed project leadership across evolving technology environments.
- Executive Communication & Government Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated experience preparing executive-level reports, presenting project status and technical information, and communicating risks, recommendations, and project outcomes to senior government officials and organizational leadership.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Project Governance: Demonstrated ability to collaborate with key managers, functional subject matter experts, internal and external project teams, contractors, and subcontractors to develop, negotiate, and secure approval for project scope, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and quality management strategies.
- Project Execution, Monitoring & Delivery Excellence: Proven track record of successfully executing, monitoring, and controlling complex technical projects to achieve high-quality, on-time, and on-budget completion. Experience managing project risks, resolving delivery challenges, implementing corrective actions, and ensuring compliance with established performance expectations and customer requirements.
- Leadership, Organization & Problem-Solving: Strong organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives, prioritize competing requirements, lead diverse technical teams, and maintain accountability for project outcomes in fast-paced federal IT and cybersecurity environments.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Who's Hiring
- True Zero Technologies28
- TE Connectivity17
- Amgen10
- Dun & Bradstreet3
- Penn State University3
Top Industries Hiring
- Electronics & Hardware
- Technology & Software
- Non-Profit & Social Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote R&D hardware engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a closely related field
- Proficiency in PCB schematic capture and layout using tools such as Cadence Allegro or Altium Designer
- Experience with analog, digital, or mixed-signal circuit design and verification
- Hands-on hardware debug and bring-up experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and bench instruments
- Familiarity with hardware development lifecycles from concept through design verification testing
- Knowledge of relevant compliance standards such as IPC, FCC, CE, or MIL-SPEC depending on the target market
Tips for Your Remote R&D Hardware Engineer Job Search
Document your remote lab and test process
Remote hardware employers can't watch you work, so your documentation does the talking. Share detailed design logs, test setups, and revision histories in your portfolio so hiring teams can see how you run hardware development independently and communicate findings without being in the same room.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote r&d hardware engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through listings that aren't actually remote or aren't a fit for this discipline.
Highlight async collaboration tools you use
Remote hardware teams coordinate across Confluence, Notion, Jira, and Git-based design repositories. Name the specific tools you've used for async design reviews, component sourcing decisions, or cross-functional handoffs so employers know you can plug into a distributed workflow without a ramp-up period.
Prepare for remote hardware interview formats
Remote r&d hardware interviews often include take-home design challenges, live Altium or KiCad screen-share reviews, and async written assessments. Practice walking through a past hardware project on a video call, explaining design tradeoffs clearly and concisely for an audience that can't handle the physical prototype.
Remote R&D Hardware Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote r&d hardware engineer job?
Target remote-first hardware companies and distributed product teams that have already built infrastructure for remote engineering work. Remote employers in this field screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and the ability to run hardware experiments with minimal in-person oversight. A portfolio showing end-to-end prototype development, lab documentation, and cross-functional async collaboration will give you a real edge over candidates with similar technical credentials.
Which companies hire remote r&d hardware engineers?
Remote r&d hardware engineer roles are posted by True Zero Technologies, TE Connectivity, and Amgen and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These include remote-first hardware startups, distributed defense and semiconductor firms, and established consumer electronics companies that have shifted parts of their r&d operations to fully distributed teams.
Can you get a remote r&d hardware engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level hardware roles are harder to land because employers expect you to troubleshoot independently without in-person mentorship. Your strongest path is through open-source hardware projects, documented personal builds, or remote internships at hardware startups. Showing a GitHub or portfolio with schematics, test logs, and iteration notes demonstrates the self-sufficiency remote employers look for before they'll take a chance on a newer candidate.
Do you need a degree for remote r&d hardware engineer jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers care more about demonstrated hardware skills than a specific credential, particularly at startups and product-focused companies with distributed teams. A strong portfolio of prototype work, PCB design files, firmware integration examples, or published research can carry significant weight. That said, roles at defense contractors and regulated medical device companies often list a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field as a firm requirement.
Which industries hire the most remote r&d hardware engineers?
Most remote r&d hardware engineer openings sit in Electronics & Hardware, Technology & Software, and Non-Profit & Social Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors have invested in distributed r&d infrastructure, allowing hardware engineers to handle design, simulation, and documentation remotely while coordinating physical testing through on-site lab partners or contract facilities.
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