Hardware Engineer

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Date: Sep 9, 2026

Location: North Reading, MA, US

Teradyne's Defense&Aerospace Division delivers advanced, mission critical test solutions to military and aerospace customers worldwide. Our comprehensive portfolio supports the entire test lifecycle across factory, depot, and field environments, with continued growth driven by next-generation defense programs and modernization initiatives.

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The Hardware Engineering team plays an integral role in the design and development of digital, analog, and optical automated test instrumentation and fixtures that meet the challenging needs of our critical Defense and Aerospace customers. This role is a highly technical engineering position that blends circuit design, PCB architecture, component selection, signal/power integrity analysis, and hardware bring-up and debug. It defines design strategies, applies rigorous engineering standards, and supports informed product release decisions.

The person in this role partners closely with mechanical, applications, systems, software, and quality engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle to translate requirements into robust designs, act as the technical owner of the hardware, uncover integration and reliability risks early, and improve product manufacturability, testability, and long-term sustainability. By combining schematic capture, PCB layout guidance, prototype bring-up, root-cause debugging, tolerance and worst-case analysis, and design-for-manufacturing/test practices, this role helps deliver high-confidence, mission-ready hardware and drive high-quality outcomes across the development process.

• Implement PCB design processes using tools, methodologies, and design frameworks, with emphasis on fundamentally sound high-level architecture, component selection, schematic capture, and artwork generation for digital, analog, and optical instrumentation.
• Design, build, and maintain comprehensive prototyping plans for new products, ensuring thorough initial bring-up, debug, and validation of both expected and edge‑case circuit behavior.
• Be proficient in debugging analog, digital, and bus‑based hardware using benchtop lab equipment, oscilloscopes, and other test instrumentation. Collect, analyze, and interpret design verification data; summarize test data and reporting findings; and contribute to documentation review, design traceability, and release status reporting.
• Communicate design status, verification results and technical risks clearly, providing factual, measurable input that supports engineering and management decision‑making.
• Interact closely with product managers, software/mechanical/systems engineers, and cross‑functional hardware colleagues to understand project objectives, review requirements and design concepts early, and provide design input focused on…