Hardware engineer with 8 years of experience designing boards for networking and IoT products from schematic through production. Led 12 board designs into mass production, including a 16-layer switch board with 25 Gbps SerDes links. Brings high-speed layout review, signal and power integrity analysis, and EMC compliance experience.
Experience
Senior Hardware Engineer, Silverline Networks (San Jose, CA)
Apr 2021 – Present
Designed a 16-layer switch main board with 25 Gbps SerDes links, passing compliance on the second spin
Ran HyperLynx SI and PI analysis, cutting board respins from an average of 3 to 1.5 per product
Led FCC Part 15 and CE EMC testing for 4 products with contract manufacturers in Taiwan
Hardware Engineer, Nimbus Home Devices (Mountain View, CA)
Jun 2018 – Mar 2021
Designed 6 low-power IoT boards with Wi-Fi and BLE modules in Altium
Brought up prototypes and wrote manufacturing test specifications for 500K units a year
Education
M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (Aug 2017 – May 2018)
A strong Hardware Engineer resume shows the systems you built, the scale they run at, and the measurable effect on speed, reliability or cost. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
Sections, in order
Summary
Experience
Projects
Skills
Education
Length: One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Summary: Write two or three lines: your role, your strongest skills, and one result that proves them.
Skills to feature
Programming languages
System design
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
CI/CD
Testing and code review
Databases and SQL
Observability
Security fundamentals
APIs and integrations
Technical documentation
Example bullet points
Rebuilt the checkout service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms for 2M monthly users
Introduced contract tests and staged rollouts, reducing production incidents by 45% in two quarters
Migrated 30 services to Kubernetes with Terraform, lowering cloud spend by $250k a year
Tips from recruiters
Group skills by category (for example "Languages: Go, TypeScript") so recruiters and ATS parsers find them quickly.
Link to a repository, demo or write-up for at least one project you can talk about in depth.
Name the stack inside each bullet; keyword matching happens at the bullet level, not only in the skills list.
Recommended templates
Classic (ATS-friendly): Jake's-style LaTeX classic: small caps and hairline rules
Tech (ATS-friendly): Developer style: mono headings and tags, sans body
Modern (ATS-friendly): Clean single column with accent headings and rules
Hardware Engineer resume FAQ
What should a Hardware Engineer resume include?
A Hardware Engineer resume should show the systems you built, the scale they run at, and the measurable effect on speed, reliability or cost. Use these sections in this order: Summary, Experience, Projects, Skills and Education. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
What is the best resume template for a Hardware Engineer?
Classic, Tech and Modern work well for Hardware Engineer roles. They are single-column with standard headings, so applicant tracking systems (ATS) parse them reliably.
How long should a Hardware Engineer resume be?
One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Which skills should a Hardware Engineer put on a resume?
Prioritize the skills named in the job posting. Common ones for Hardware Engineer roles are Programming languages, System design, Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), CI/CD, Testing and code review and Databases and SQL.
How do I write strong Hardware Engineer resume bullet points?
Start with an action verb, say what you did, and end with a measurable result such as latency, uptime and deploy frequency. For example: "Rebuilt the checkout service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms for 2M monthly users."