Hardware engineers

Organizations whose current-needs assessments include hardware-engineering. These are inferred from public information, not confirmed job openings; verify directly. Needs unreviewed for 6+ months are flagged.

All kinds of work · All stated needs

• 309th Software Engineering Group · Hill Air Force Base · Careers: https://afscsoftware.dso.mil/careers/ — Likely needs include software engineers (systems, embedded, avionics, cybersecurity, DevSecOps) willing to obtain Secret or Top Secret clearances. Former military backgrounds are common but not required. Strong fit for engineers who want code on real combat aircraft, prioritize mission weight over compensation and optionality, and want to live in Utah without a Beltway commute — accepting governm… (reviewed 2026-06-19)
• Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) · Mendon; Lehi · Careers: https://asirobots.applicantpro.com/jobs/ — Likely needs include robotics engineers (perception, planning, controls), fleet-orchestration and cloud platform engineers, vehicle-systems integrators, field deployment and support staff, and sector-specific sales for agriculture, construction, and logistics. ASI earned Great Place to Work certification in 2025 and has been actively hiring in Utah and Texas. For talent matching, ASI fits enginee… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Baxter Aerospace · St. George · Careers: https://www.baxteraerospace.com/careers/ — Likely needs: UAS/aerospace and flight-controls engineers, RF/communications and satellite-integration engineers, manufacturing and production staff, and defense business-development people who can navigate government procurement. The Series A is earmarked for production scale-up and field operations, which points to hiring in manufacturing and field engineering. For talent matching, Baxter fits … (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Blackrock Neurotech · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://blackrockneurotech.com/careers/ — Hiring emphasis runs to electrode R&D and manufacturing (engineers, technical project managers, technicians), BCI software leadership, IT and cybersecurity, and quality — plus intermittent BCI internships in data science and related teams. Neural engineers, materials scientists for biocompatible electrode interfaces, signal-processing and machine-learning engineers, regulatory engineers experienc… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Blundell Geothermal Plant · Beaver County · Website: https://www.pacificorp.com/ — Utility geothermal plants typically need plant operators, maintenance technicians, electrical and mechanical craft, and occasional engineering support for outages and capital projects. PacifiCorp hiring is corporate — search Rocky Mountain Power / PacifiCorp careers for Utah generation roles rather than a plant-specific board. Clearance is usually not required; rural relocation willingness is. (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• Bunnell Incorporated · North Salt Lake · Website: https://bunl.com — This is a manufacturing-and-clinical-support company, not a software startup. The durable needs are hardware engineering and manufacturing operations for a regulated Class III device (pneumatics, assembly, in-process testing — FDA supplement records through 2022 reference pneumatics subassembly test fixtures). Clinical-regulatory work sits alongside that: ventilator labeling, clinicia… (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• Carterra · Salt Lake City · Website: https://carterra-bio.com — The company's homepage and careers navigation point to instrument sales, applications support, and software for kinetics and epitope analysis — roles spanning biophysics applications scientists, microfluidics and optical hardware engineers, and software for high-throughput biosensor data (official site). Specific open requisitions were not captured here. (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• Carv · Park City · Website: https://getcarv.com/ — Carv was hiring across both London and Park City through mid-2026, and the Park City roster is the part relevant here: senior Android, iOS, and Rust engineers, a growth product manager, customer success staff and seasonal interns, a mechanical engineer on the hardware side, and design and marketing roles listed as either location. The engineering profile fits people who want embed… (reviewed 2026-08-12)
• Cosm · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://www.cosm.com/careers/positions — Needs span venue operations (dome operators, hospitality and events staff, fan ambassadors, security), corporate and venue leadership (pricing/revenue, product management, talent acquisition, HR, supply chain), and technical roles across software, video, networking, and IT program management — with Salt Lake City among the locations for engineering and internship tracks. Display engineers and rea… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Cyrq Energy · Beaver County · Website: https://cyrqenergy.com/ — Public careers detail for Utah specifically is thin on a plain fetch of cyrqenergy.com. Durable role families for a binary geothermal operator include plant operators and O&M technicians, reservoir / production engineers, geochemists, instrumentation and controls staff, and field drilling/workover contractors. Verify openings on Cyrq's own site or LinkedIn before recommending a Utah application p… (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• Eden Technologies · St. George · Website: https://edentechinc.com — Materials engineers and membrane specialists with reverse osmosis expertise; mechanical engineers who can work on centrifuge design for extreme-chemistry environments; water-sector business-development people who can navigate municipal, agricultural, and industrial water-treatment procurement. At $1M raised, this is a very early-stage company — contributors should expect high individual leverage … (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Electric Power Systems (EPS) · North Logan · Careers: https://epsenergy.com/about-electric-power-systems/careers/ — Likely needs include aerospace battery electrochemists, power electronics engineers, certification engineers with FAA DER experience, systems engineers familiar with aviation safety standards (DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A), and manufacturing engineers capable of building aviation-grade hardware at production scale. The team appears to be Utah-based and smaller than coastal counterparts, making indiv… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Epitel · Salt Lake City · Website: https://www.epitel.com/ — Likely needs include biomedical and electrical engineers, signal-processing and machine-learning engineers for seizure detection, regulatory affairs specialists, clinical-study operations staff, reimbursement and payer-strategy operators, and field clinical trainers. The company is small; individual contributors can have outsized impact. (reviewed 2026-06-19)
• Fervo Energy · Beaver County · Careers: https://fervoenergy.com/careers/ — Fervo employed 199 full-time and part-time employees as of December 31, 2025 (prospectus) — a small company building a very large plant, which is the shape of the hiring pressure. Needs span plant and field engineering (power, electrical, instrumentation & controls, operations, reservoir engineering and data science), supply-chain and category managem… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Fortem Technologies · Lindon · Careers: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/All/fa9b835a-8112-420d-9c09-631d7b67b31c/FORTEM-TECHNOLOGIES — Hiring centers on radar systems and RF engineering, systems data and automation, product management, production engineering and technicians, QA, and shipping/logistics — mostly on-site in Lindon. Broader fit still includes embedded systems, guidance/controls, autonomy, manufacturing, field deployment, and export-control-aware program managers who understand airspace and critical-infrastructure ru… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Hexcel Corporation · Salt Lake County · Careers: https://www.hexcel.com/careers — Likely needs include materials scientists, process engineers, controls engineers, manufacturing leaders, quality engineers, maintenance technicians, safety leaders, and operators comfortable with aerospace and defense certification. For students and operators, Hexcel may be a better fit than a startup if they want rigorous industrial systems, tangible products, and long-cycle aerospace work. (reviewed 2026-05-09)
• Hill Air Force Base · Hill Air Force Base · Careers: https://www.hill.af.mil/About-Us/Employment/ — Hill hires along two entirely separate tracks. Uniformed military careers (officer, enlisted, healthcare) route through airforce.com. Civilian federal employment — the larger and more relevant track for most wiki readers — routes primarily through USAJOBS.gov, with two notable shortcuts the base itself advertises: a direct-to-recruiter path for engineering and scientist candidates with a BS or hi… (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• Hypercraft · Provo · Careers: https://hypercraftusa.com/careers/ — Likely needs include powertrain engineers, power-electronics engineers, embedded and vehicle-control software engineers, systems-integration engineers, and defense program managers who understand military vehicle-modernization procurement. The official careers page routes applications through Hypercraft’s Eddy board and emphasizes propulsion, rugged hardware, and defense-mobility talent. Strong f… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• InnoSys · unknown — Materials engineers and glass processing specialists with hermetic seal fabrication experience; quality and reliability engineers familiar with MIL-spec or equivalent radiation-hardened component certification; and business development connections to OEMs in the well logging, medical, and national laboratory instrumentation markets. (reviewed 2026-06-19)
• Intan Technologies · no verified Utah presence · Careers: https://intantech.com/careers.html — Likely needs include analog and mixed-signal IC designers, biomedical electronics engineers, firmware engineers for embedded acquisition systems, and application engineers who can support integrators worldwide. Open positions are rare — the team is small, so individual leverage is high but hiring volume is limited when roles do open. (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Intergalactic · St. George · Careers: https://igspace.applicantpro.com/jobs/ — The company's careers language invites engineers, designers, technicians, and business specialists, including candidates at its southern Utah headquarters and some remote talent. The durable work implied by its products includes mechanical and thermal-system engineering, electrical and controls engineering, embedded software, product and system design, aerospace assembly and manufacturing, qualif… (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• Iris Biomedical · Salt Lake City · Website: https://irismeddesign.com/ — Biomedical engineers, microfabrication engineers, hermetic packaging specialists, and quality engineers with ISO 13485 medical-device experience. The company is small with high individual leverage. The specialized nature of the work means recruiting is from a narrow talent pool: MEMS-background engineers, biomedical engineering graduates from neural-engineering programs (University of Utah's Cent… (reviewed 2026-06-19)
• Jump Aero · statewide · Careers: https://jumpaero.com/careers — Hiring centers on aerospace-certification engineering: embedded systems (DO-160), flight-control software (DO-178), power electronics (DO-254), battery systems (DO-311A), mechanical engineers with aviation certification experience, composites and wire-harness technicians, business development, and test-pilot talent. That mix matches a development-stage eVTOL program pushing toward certification a… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Lucid Software · South Jordan · Careers: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lucidsoftware — Hiring is heavy on enterprise and regional sales (APAC/EMEA/SMB account executives), compliance, revenue operations, and customer operations — plus a standing general application. Broader fit still includes full-stack and frontend engineers, collaboration/real-time systems engineers, enterprise security specialists, and product managers with B2B SaaS experience. Utah's deep SaaS talent pool and S… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Merit Medical Systems · South Jordan · Careers: https://www.merit.com/careers/ — Likely needs include mechanical engineers, biomedical engineers, materials scientists who understand biocompatible polymers and hydrophilic coatings, regulatory engineers who can navigate FDA 510(k) and PMA pathways, quality engineers, and manufacturing engineers for the precision extrusion and assembly lines. Operations leaders comfortable with both ISO-class cleanroom production and acquisition… (reviewed 2026-05-09)
• Northrop Grumman — Promontory Facility · Promontory · Careers: https://www.northropgrumman.com/careers — Northrop Grumman Promontory recruits propulsion engineers, mechanical engineers, materials scientists (propellant chemistry, composite case design), manufacturing engineers for large-scale aerospace hardware, and safety engineers specializing in high-energy materials handling. Quality assurance and systems engineering roles are also significant. Most roles touching Sentinel require security clear… (reviewed 2026-06-19)
• Orbit Irrigation Products · Davis County · Website: https://www.orbitonline.com — The 2018 article notes tight Utah labor markets for local manufacturing hires (Utah Business, 2018). Current open roles were not captured; Husqvarna's careers portal would be the live board. (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• Ormat Technologies · Beaver County · Careers: https://www.ormat.com/en/company/careers/main/ — Ormat's own careers portal and current external job listings point to plant-operations and engineering roles that would apply directly to Cove Fort — plant operators, operations-and-maintenance engineers, geochemists, and instrumentation/controls staff who keep a binary-cycle facility running — alongside corporate functions with clear geothermal-development ties: procurement/buyer roles for plant… (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• OxEon Energy · North Salt Lake · Careers: https://www.oxeonenergy.com/careers — Hiring frames around manufacturing scale-up — engineering, manufacturing, operations, and business development as capacity ramps. That aligns with the longer-standing need for electrochemists, ceramics and materials scientists, thermal systems engineers, and manufacturing process engineers who can take small-batch SOEC production to factory scale; industrial-hydrogen chemical engineers remain rel… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• PassiveLogic · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://passivelogic.teamtailor.com/ — Likely needs include embedded systems engineers, controls engineers, building-automation experts, mechanical engineers, applied AI engineers, digital-twin modelers, installers, technical product managers, and partnerships with contractors or ESCOs that can carry the system into real projects. For talent matching, PassiveLogic fits builders who want AI and hardware work with climate relevance, but… (reviewed 2026-06-18)
• PhotoPharmics · Lehi · Website: https://photopharmics.com — Likely needs include neuroscientists, biomedical engineers with photonics or optics backgrounds, clinical trial operations specialists, regulatory affairs experts, and commercial leaders who can navigate payer coverage for a novel therapeutic device. The team is relatively small and Utah County-based — a fit for contributors who want proximity to the science rather than a large pharma apparatus. … (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• RAM Aviation, Space & Defense · St. George · Careers: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/All/4b9a9d4d-d7b3-4bc0-afd6-915c2ab0bb76/RAM-Aviation-Space-Defense — RAM likely recruits mechanical engineers with serious interest in precision machining and fluid and gas dynamics, materials scientists with propellant-compatibility expertise, quality assurance engineers, and skilled precision machinists. St. George, UT base offers lower cost of living than aerospace hubs in Florida, Texas, or California, which may matter to engineers who want to stay in the Moun… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Renaissance Ag · Vineyard · Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/renaissance-ag — Mechanical and controls engineers with experience in agricultural or food-processing equipment; agricultural operations people who understand ranching and dairy workflows; sales and customer-success staff who can reach ranch and dairy decision-makers; and supply-chain operators who can scale a hardware business. Small-company culture at commercialization stage — individual leverage is high. (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Ripple Neuro · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://rippleneuro.com/careers-at-ripple/ — Hiring emphasis is application-scientist / field-sales talent who can talk electrophysiology with research labs (human and animal neuroscience); applications are also accepted at jobs@rppl.com. That sits alongside the longer-standing likely needs for analog/mixed-signal hardware engineers, ASIC designers, embedded firmware engineers, and biomedical engineers who want to design instruments rather … (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Rodatherm Energy · Great Basin · Website: https://rodatherm.com — Petroleum engineers, drilling engineers, and reservoir engineers with energy project development experience are the most relevant contributors. Mechanical engineers for power-generation hardware and early-stage startup operators comfortable with multi-year project timelines are also likely needs. (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Skullcandy · Park City · Careers: https://skullcandy.applicantpro.com/jobs/ — Likely needs include audio and acoustic engineers, industrial and fashion-forward product designers, supply-chain and manufacturing partners, DTC and retail marketing leaders, and brand partnership managers. Consumer electronics operators with experience in competitive audio markets and PE-backed brand turnarounds may also be relevant. (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Space Dynamics Laboratory · North Logan · Careers: https://spacedynamicslaboratory.applytojob.com/ — Hiring spans systems and mission engineering, spacecraft GN&C, quality/SQA, C4ISR program management, cleared Linux/systems administrators and technicians, TEMPEST/EMR survivability work, and North Logan student roles in electrical, mechanical, and lab/database work. Broader fit still includes optical and electrical engineers, cyber specialists, program managers, and students who want applied eng… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Spire Therapeutics · Salt Lake City · Website: https://spire.us/ — Likely needs include biomedical engineers (acoustics, ultrasound, neuroimaging), clinical-research operations for Phase 3 execution, regulatory affairs and FDA strategy specialists for novel neuromodulation devices, reimbursement and market-access operators, and manufacturing partners for device scale-up. No disclosed Series A; clinical trial costs may require significant new capital beyond grant… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Splunk · unknown · Careers: https://careers.cisco.com/global/en/splunk — Likely needs include security engineers, detection engineers, SREs, observability specialists, distributed-systems engineers, data-platform engineers, technical support, implementation partners, and enterprise sellers who understand SOC and IT operations buying cycles. For Utah talent, Splunk is most relevant as a skill market and possible Cisco/Splunk remote-employment path unless a Utah office … (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Teal Drones · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://tealdrones.com/careers/ — Likely needs: mechanical and electrical engineers focused on small UAS, embedded and communications-security software engineers, autonomy and flight-software engineers, manufacturing and production-operations staff (production scaling has been a stated priority), and defense-acquisition and program-management professionals. For talent matching, Teal fits engineers and operators who want defense h… (reviewed 2026-06-18)
• Telescope Array · Millard County · Website: https://www.telescopearray.org/ — Likely needs include detector-electronics engineers, simulation and reconstruction software builders, graduate students and postdocs interested in astroparticle physics, and operations staff for the desert site. The collaboration is also a useful destination for university administrators and policymakers thinking about long-horizon basic-science infrastructure that pays off on decade timescales. (reviewed 2026-05-09)
• TELLUS Networked Sensor Solutions · Salt Lake City · Website: https://tellusensors.com — Likely needs include environmental engineers, sensor hardware engineers, data scientists with calibration statistics backgrounds, and software engineers building real-time data pipelines and public dashboards. The company is seeking Series A funding, which suggests business development, government contracting, and growth-stage operational capabilities are also priorities. Field deployment and mai… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• US Synthetic · Orem · Careers: https://ussynthetic.com/careers/ — Manufacturing and process operations dominate — press operation, materials handling, and finishing work on parts held to tight tolerances. Around that sit materials and mechanical engineering roles tied to press design and diamond synthesis, plus applications engineering for customers specifying cutters for particular formations. The company describes itself as family-oriented with an emphasis on… (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• Utah Arch Research Group · Salt Lake City · Website: https://arch.cs.utah.edu — The group recruits PhD students and postdocs. Strong candidates would have background spanning circuits, microarchitecture, cryptography mathematics, and at least some ML — a combination that is genuinely rare. This is not the right environment for someone who wants to ship a product in two years; it is the right environment for someone who wants to be a co-author on a paper that changes a field.… (reviewed 2026-06-19)
• Utah Neurorobotics Lab · Salt Lake City · Website: https://neurorobotics.ece.utah.edu — The lab recruits graduate students, postdocs, and research engineers in machine learning, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and clinical-research support. Funding is grant-driven (NIH, NSF, DoD including DARPA). IP flows through the University of Utah Technology Licensing Office and may seed startups over a 5–10 year horizon. For talent matching, this fits people who want academic r… (reviewed 2026-06-18)
• Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) · West Desert · Website: https://www.hill.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/672497/utah-test-and-training-range/ — Contributors who thrive here are military test-range operators, radar and telemetry engineers, range safety officers, airspace coordinators, and civilian DoD engineering staff. Government employment; clearance required. This is institutional infrastructure work, not a wiki-style startup career path. For Utah talent, the realistic connection is through Hill AFB, range contractors (such as JT4), an… (reviewed 2026-06-19)
• Wasatch Ionics · unknown — Likely needs include electrochemistry and battery-materials researchers, systems engineers who understand reserve-battery architectures, Army program and SBIR contracting advisors, and manufacturing scale-up expertise — all at a stage where the team and funding picture are not publicly visible. Strong fit for people who want frontier battery chemistry with a defense application and are comfortabl… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• WAVE (Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification) · Logan · Careers: https://www.wavecharging.com/careers — WAVE likely needs power electronics engineers, embedded systems engineers, RF and EMC specialists, civil and infrastructure project managers for roadway installation projects, and fleet electrification business development professionals. The USU-origin engineering culture and Logan, UT base suggest a technically serious team with lower cost of living than coastal counterparts. (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Wavetronix · Springville · Careers: https://wavetronix.breezy.hr/ — Hiring spans electrical and electronics engineering (hardware), engineering infrastructure (software/networking), field systems and networking technicians, low-voltage and ITS field technicians, electronics manufacturing operators, and technical sales/support roles across multiple regions. For talent matching, Wavetronix is a good fit for people who like physical products, public infrastructure, … (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Williams International · Ogden · Careers: https://www.williams-int.com/careers/ — Williams' public materials point to durable role families rather than a churning list of current openings. The company maintains standing, location-specific recruiting pages for CNC machinist and precision-manufacturing/production roles at its Ogden site specifically. On the engineering side, Williams runs an Engineering Rotational Program for new graduates across mechanical design, analysis, con… (reviewed 2026-08-11)
• Xandem · Salt Lake City — If the defense path revives, likely needs include RF and signal-processing engineers, embedded systems engineers, mesh-network specialists, and government business-development people who can navigate DHS and DoD procurement. A bootstrapped capital structure limits how much R&D the company can sustain without a strategic partner or contract. For talent matching, Xandem fits researchers and enginee… (reviewed 2026-07-14)
• Zanskar Geothermal · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://jobs.lever.co/Zanskar — Hiring (Salt Lake City hybrid / field) spans project development, mechanical and systems engineering, equipment and geologic technicians, and platform/AI engineering, with seismology and software roles rotating through the board. That matches the stack: project development and field ops alongside geoscience and ML platform work. For talent matching, Zanskar remains a strong candidate for AI engin… (reviewed 2026-07-14)