Tive
Hardware Engineering - Sustaining
$100K–$150K
Boston, MA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in hardware sustaining, NPI, or manufacturing engineering for high-volume electronics.
- Education
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
About the job
Sustain and improve in-market hardware products by investigating field and manufacturing issues, managing engineering changes, and driving corrective actions with suppliers and internal teams.
What you'll do
- Investigate returns and field failures, confirm root causes, and drive resolutions to closure.
- Manage engineering change orders, PCB revisions, component substitutions, and revision traceability.
- Support suppliers and contract manufacturers with quality escalations, corrective actions, yield analysis, and production issues.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- 4+ years in hardware sustaining, NPI, or manufacturing engineering for high-volume electronics.
- Ability to review schematics and PCB designs, reason about power trees, and assess change risk.
- Experience with contract manufacturers, including DFM, yield, FATP/SMT, and production issue resolution; structured root-cause methods such as 8D, 5-Why, or fishbone.
Nice to have
- Low-power or battery-powered IoT hardware experience, including familiarity with cellular, GNSS, and BLE devices; hands-on experience with ESP32-class MCUs and related components.
- Mandarin and/or China-based CM coordination experience; experience feeding sustaining insights into verification and design.
Pay
$100,000 - $150,000 USD base salary
Tools
PCB, FATP/SMT, 8D, 5-Why, ESP32-class MCUs, cellular, GNSS, BLE
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