Hardware engineering jobs

Electronics and embedded engineers design the circuit boards, firmware, and control electronics inside inverters, battery packs, EV chargers, smart meters, and fusion machines, then test them into production. Most openings are at North American hardware makers such as Dynapower, Sol-Ark, Lunar Energy, and Canadian Solar; in Europe, ALFEN, Zaptec, and Skeleton Technologies hire.

What the jobs involve

• Hardware design engineers draw schematics, select components, lay out PCBs for EMC and high voltage, and take designs into production (ALFEN, Skeleton, Dynapower).
• Power electronics engineers design DC/DC converters, inverters, and battery-management circuits and check worst-case component stress (Eos Energy Enterprises).
• Firmware engineers write C and C++ for microcontrollers: battery management and charge estimation at QuantumScape, communication stacks in Landis+Gyr's smart meters, embedded Linux for storage controllers at Canadian Solar.
• PCB layout engineers turn schematics into boards and manufacturing files (Lunar Energy).
• Test engineers and technicians build automated test rigs, solder and repair boards, and calibrate meters (Zaptec, Jule, Sol-Ark, Intellihub).

Who is hiring

Inverter and power-conversion makers lead: Dynapower in Vermont, Sol-Ark in Texas, Tigo Energy in California. Battery and storage firms follow: Lunar Energy, QuantumScape, Eos, and Canadian Solar in Kitchener, Ontario. In Europe, charger makers ALFEN (Almere) and Zaptec (Stavanger) hire, as does the ultracapacitor maker Skeleton in Estonia and Finland. Fusion developer Commonwealth Fusion Systems hires RF electronics engineers.

Skills and qualifications

Engineers need a degree in electrical, electronic, or computer engineering. Design roles name Altium Designer, SPICE or LTspice, FMEA, and EMC testing; firmware roles name an RTOS, I2C, SPI, and UART, STM32 or TI C2000 microcontrollers, and debugging with an oscilloscope and logic analyser. Senior roles ask for boards taken into volume production, battery-management firmware, or designs to UL and IEC safety standards.

Technician posts want an associate degree in electronics or proven soldering skills. Students can start with Dynapower's engineering internship, a working-student firmware post at AEG Power Solutions in Germany, or an industrial PhD on self-powered grid sensors at ENERGIOT in Barcelona.

What is changing

Since 11 September 2026, makers of connected products sold in the EU have had to report vulnerabilities and incidents; from 11 December 2027, all Cyber Resilience Act requirements apply (European Commission). Connected inverters, chargers, and meters count as such products, so firmware engineers who can ship secure updates and handle vulnerability reports are worth more to European makers.