Core Engineer - Hardware Systems (Multiple Levels)

In your first 3 months, you will have:

Taken full ownership of a critical hardware subsystem or platform iteration and delivered measurable improvements in reliability, security posture, manufacturability, or cost.

Established clear design and validation standards that reduce risk and improve confidence across hardware decisions and vendor engagements.

Demonstrated sound judgment by stopping or redirecting at least one design, component, or supplier path that posed reliability, safety, or security risk.

In your first year, you will be:

Owning major portions of the hardware roadmap end-to-end, with clear accountability for reliability, security, performance, and total cost across the fleet.

Driving step-function improvements in validation rigor, supply chain quality, certification readiness, and manufacturing feedback loops.

Influencing platform direction through high-leverage silicon and system architecture decisions that compound across deployments.

6+ years building, validating, and shipping production hardware systems in real-world environments.

Experience with system-level engineering across compute platforms (CPU/GPU), memory/storage, networking, thermals, and power delivery (e.g., PCIe-based systems, high-performance GPUs, and high-speed networking).

Experience leading silicon and platform selection decisions in collaboration with software and infrastructure teams, including vendor engagement and roadmap alignment.

Strong engineering craft: crisp designs, structured validation, operational clarity, and clear documentation (e.g., schematics, BOMs, validation plans, and design reviews).

Comfort working in ambiguity and making sound trade-offs under real constraints, including cost targets, supply chain risk, and deployment timelines.

Ownership mindset: outcomes over tasks.

Rapidly iterating high-performance systems from prototype to production, including bring-up, validation, certification, and field sustainment.

Managing contract manufacturers and suppliers to deliver predictable quality, security, and cost outcomes at scale.

Hands-on experience with thermal design, power behavior, performance profiling, and failure analysis in high-performance systems.

Designing secure-by-default hardware platforms, including secure boot chains, hardware roots of trust (e.g., TPM), signed firmware, and secure update mechanisms.

Building validation, test automation, and manufacturing QA processes that scale across fleets while controlling total cost of ownership.

At Edgescale AI, we’re deploying AI in the real world—helping customers apply this technology to unlock transformative productivity gains. Our work sits at the intersection of infrastructure, security, networking, and AI, where reliability and performance are non-negotiable and where solutions demand deep, distributed systems thinking.

We’re intensely AI-native. We build with AI, we ship AI, and we use it every day to accelerate how we design, test, deploy, and operate complex systems. If you want to help pave the application of AI in the real world, at global scale, we want to hear from you.

Edgescale AI is building an inclusive, merit-based organization. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any legally protected status. We value diversity, inclusion, and a shared passion for creating real-world impact.