Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Hardware Engineering

Role Summary

This position leads the design, development, and delivery of hardware platforms supporting large-scale cloud infrastructure environments. The role combines hardware engineering expertise with program management skills to coordinate cross-functional teams, manage supplier relationships, and support successful product releases. This position guides hardware solutions from concept through production with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate technical and business requirements into comprehensive hardware platform designs supporting cloud infrastructure.
• Design, develop, evaluate, and enhance hardware solutions to support data center performance, reliability, and scalability requirements.
• Manage the hardware lifecycle from initial concept and prototyping through validation, testing, and production release.
• Coordinate with OEM, ODM, and JDM partners to support technical alignment, quality, and timely delivery.
• Establish project milestones, acceptance criteria, technical requirements, and performance expectations and monitor supplier progress against established objectives.
• Serve as a technical liaison between hardware and software teams to facilitate communication, evaluate trade-offs, and address technical challenges.
• Apply knowledge of board-, server-, and rack-level architectures to support efficient data center integration.
• Use approved AI-enabled tools to support infrastructure analysis, workflow efficiency, and technical decision-making while validating outputs for accuracy.
• Evaluate thermal management, airflow, liquid cooling, and power delivery requirements as part of hardware platform design.
• Support hardware lifecycle and modernization initiatives, including migration and retirement of legacy technologies with minimal operational disruption.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience designing, developing, testing, or improving hardware products or platforms.
• Relevant education, training, certifications, or equivalent practical experience in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong working knowledge of OEM, ODM, and JDM manufacturing processes and hardware lifecycle management.
• Experience with data center hardware and infrastructure, including compute, networking, power, and cooling systems.
• Working knowledge of thermal management principles and hardware validation or certification processes within data center or cloud environments.
• Familiarity with technologies and standards such as PCIe, Redfish, OpenBMC, and Open Compute.
• Experience supporting Linux-based server environments and using scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
• Experience managing Bills of Materials (BOMs) and coordinating technical deliverables across cross-functional teams.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with demonstrated attention to engineering quality and continuous improvement.
• Ability to evaluate and validate AI-assisted outputs for accuracy, security, resiliency, and alignment with applicable operational and compliance requirements.

Publishing Pay Range: $70.00 – $90.00 hourly
This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.