Lab Operations & Hardware Integration Engineer

Team Red Dog•Redmond, WA

23h•Onsite

About The Position

Team Red Dog is hiring a Lab Operations & Hardware Integration Engineer for our client, a next-generation cloud platform company and Fortune 50 technology leader. This hands-on engineering role supports cutting-edge Azure node hardware across development labs and datacenter environments, combining server hardware integration, rack deployment, system bring-up, networking, troubleshooting, and automation. You’ll work directly with hardware, firmware, silicon, validation, infrastructure, and IT teams to keep complex lab systems operational and accelerate critical engineering milestones. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who enjoys moving between physical hardware, UART and console debugging, network configuration, Python scripting, and large-scale lab operations.

Requirements

5+ years of experience supporting hardware development labs, datacenters, manufacturing labs, system integration labs, or hardware validation environments.
Hands-on experience with server hardware, rack integration, system bring-up, deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Experience using serial communications, UARTs, console access, debug ports, and low-level system debugging techniques.
Experience scripting with Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including switching, VLANs, subnets, routing, and connectivity troubleshooting.
Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills across hardware and infrastructure environments.
Ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, networking, and infrastructure teams.
Ability to work fully onsite to support facility, lab maintenance, and hardware operations.
Ability to satisfy the client’s citizenship attestation requirements.
All applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Linux administration and hardware validation environments is preferred.
Experience supporting silicon development or platform validation programs is preferred.
Experience with oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, or other engineering instrumentation is beneficial.
Experience supporting large-scale cloud, server, AI, or datacenter hardware platforms is highly valued.
Experience with inventory management systems, automation frameworks, or lab operations tooling is preferred.

Responsibilities

Instrument prototype servers and development platforms using serial consoles, UART interfaces, debug ports, and other engineering tools.
Install, configure, cable, and validate servers, racks, networking equipment, and supporting lab infrastructure.
Support hardware bring-up, system integration, platform validation, and engineering test activities.
Diagnose platform, firmware, hardware, networking, and infrastructure issues throughout the development lifecycle.
Perform break-fix activities, preventative maintenance, and ongoing system sustainment.
Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages.
Build tools that simplify system deployment, validation, inventory tracking, test execution, data collection, and lab workflows.
Support rack deployments, hardware installation, cable management, equipment moves, power validation, and environmental readiness.
Manage lab inventory, spare components, consumables, development hardware, and test equipment.
Assist with switch configuration, subnet and VLAN troubleshooting, connectivity validation, and lab network readiness.
Partner with hardware, firmware, silicon, security, validation, networking, infrastructure, and IT teams to resolve technical issues and remove blockers.
Maintain clear technical documentation and contribute to process improvements, operational readiness reviews, and lessons learned.
Follow established lab safety, ESD, security, access, and hardware-handling procedures.