Customer-Facing Hardware & Firmware Solutions Engineer

Motion Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is partnering with an innovative AI infrastructure company in the SF Bay Area to hire an Application Engineer – Hardware/Firmware for OEM integrations. You will bridge engineering and customers, designing, validating, and deploying hardware integration solutions from concept to production.

This highly customer-facing role requires hands-on work across hardware, firmware and product teams, with travel to customer sites and strong communication to lead technical discussions and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on hardware engineering and embedded firmware development experience.
• Experience owning hardware designs from concept through production.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
• Strong PCB-level hardware design knowledge including interface definition and bring-up.
• FPGA development experience including RTL design and firmware.
• Experience writing, modifying, and debugging embedded firmware.
• Understanding of embedded communication protocols (I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet).
• Ability to read, review, and troubleshoot schematics, layouts and test results.
• Excellent communication with customers and cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to travel for customer meetings and deployments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Go-to-Market to evaluate customer hardware environments and proof-of-concept integrations.
• Design and implement hardware integration layers between embedded platforms and customer infrastructure.
• Develop, modify, and debug embedded firmware to support customer hardware integrations.
• Own customer integration projects from kickoff through design, validation, production release and deployment.
• Lead customer-facing technical discussions, design reviews, on-site visits, and workshops.
• Produce engineering documentation including validation plans, bring-up guides, installation docs and KPI tracking.
• Develop hardware design collateral covering schematics, layouts, power and thermal considerations.
• Create hardware bring-up documentation and support board validation activities.
• Track project risks, milestones, and KPIs while coordinating cross-functional resolutions.
• Collaborate with Hardware, Firmware, and Product teams during roadmap planning and sprints.
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous product improvements.
• Build scalable processes, templates, and best practices for future integrations.
• Leverage AI tools to streamline engineering workflows and documentation.

Skills

Hardware engineering

Embedded firmware

Customer engagement

System bring-up

PCB design

Data center hardware

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CE/CS

Tools

FPGA development

VHDL/Verilog

I2C/UART/PCIe/Ethernet

Schematic review

Job description

Motion Recruitment is partnering with an innovative AI infrastructure company in the SF Bay Area to hire an Application Engineer – Hardware/Firmware for OEM integrations. You will bridge engineering and customers, designing, validating, and deploying hardware integration solutions from concept to production.

This highly customer-facing role requires hands-on work across hardware, firmware and product teams, with travel to customer sites and strong communication to lead technical discussions and