Senior Hardware Engineer

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence. We’re building a fully featured European AI cloud - with everything one needs to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models. In addition, our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy.

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!

Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.

Why Verda

• Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).
• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.
• 31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.
• An opportunity with make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Working mode: Hybrid
• Employment type: Full-time and permanent.

About the role

The Senior Hardware Engineer is a technical authority responsible for the architecture, validation, and lifecycle leadership of hardware platforms deployed across data center environments. This role drives hardware standards, reliability, and performance at scale, while providing senior-level technical guidance to engineering, operations, and procurement teams.

Operating with high autonomy, the role bridges engineering design, large-scale deployment, and operational reliability, ensuring hardware platforms meet current and future infrastructure needs.

Technical Authority & Engineering Leadership

• Ownership of hardware architecture and standards across data center platforms
• Authority to approve hardware designs, configurations, and lifecycle decisions
• Recognition as a senior technical reference within the infrastructure organization
• Direct influence on scalability, reliability, and performance outcomes

Professional Growth & Strategic Exposure

• Involvement in long-term infrastructure and capacity planning
• Opportunity to shape next-generation hardware platforms
• Pathway toward Principal Engineer, Hardware Architect, or Engineering Leadership roles

Your responsibilities

Hardware Architecture & Standards Leadership

Define and maintain hardware reference architectures and standards for:

• Servers
• Storage systems
• Racks and supporting components
• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their applicability at scale
• Approve hardware specifications and bill of materials (BoMs)

Validation, Reliability & Performance

• Lead hardware validation, stress testing, and qualification programs
• Establish reliability metrics and failure analysis frameworks
• Drive corrective and preventive actions with vendors and internal teams

Deployment & Operational Excellence

• Provide senior technical oversight during large-scale deployments
• Act as escalation point for complex hardware-related operational issues
• Ensure hardware designs support efficient installation, maintenance, and replacement

Lifecycle & Capacity Planning

Own hardware lifecycle strategy including:

• Introduction
• Refresh
• Decommissioning
• Support capacity planning and forecasting activities
• Optimize performance, power efficiency, and total cost of ownership (TCO)

Vendor & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead technical engagement with OEMs and hardware partners
• Support procurement in technical evaluations, negotiations, and vendor selection
• Mentor and guide junior hardware engineers
• Collaborate with software, network, and operations teams on integrated solutions

Documentation & Engineering Governance

Own senior-level documentation including:

• Architecture designs
• Validation frameworks
• Engineering standards and best practices
• Contribute to audits, compliance, and operational reviews

Your key competencies

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Master’s degree or equivalent advanced technical training preferred

Experience

• 8–12+ years of experience in hardware, systems, or infrastructure engineering
• Proven experience designing and supporting large-scale data center hardware platforms

Technical Expertise

Deep expertise in:

• Server and storage architectures
• Power, thermal, and rack-level design considerations
• Hardware diagnostics, failure analysis, and reliability engineering
• Strong understanding of Linux-based systems and hardware monitoring

Leadership & Personal Attributes

• Strong technical judgment and decision-making capability
• Ability to lead technical discussions and influence stakeholders
• Mentorship mindset and collaborative approach
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• High standards for engineering quality and operational reliability

What's next

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now.

Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don’t accept applications sent by email.