Hire Vetted Specialists
Hire an Embedded or Hardware Engineer in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio
Talent Badger is operated from Cleveland, Ohio, alongside Kyros Engineering, so Northeast Ohio companies can hire firmware, electronics, sensor and mechanical specialists by the exact skill they need without limiting the search to commuting distance. Most of the engineering runs remotely; the parts that need hands on hardware, such as bring-up, test fixtures, factory visits and pre-compliance runs, are planned in the brief so you know up front what happens in person and where.
Why Northeast Ohio teams hire specialists instead of generalists
- The region builds real hardware: medical devices and health technology around the Cleveland hospital systems, polymers and advanced materials around Akron, industrial automation and motion control, automotive and mobility suppliers, and aerospace work tied to NASA Glenn Research Center.
- Those products need narrow skills at specific moments: an STM32 low-power expert for one quarter, an IEC 60601 isolation review before a test lab visit, a CAN or embedded Linux specialist for a controller platform.
- The local hiring pool for those niches is small, so a full-time search can take months. A specialist working fractionally can start on the piece that is blocking you while the permanent search continues.
- Remote work suits most of it. Schematic review, firmware, simulation and documentation travel well; what does not travel is the bench time, and that can be planned.
What works remotely and what usually needs to be local
- Remote: architecture, schematic capture and layout, firmware development, FEA and CFD, design reviews, requirements and test documentation.
- Usually local: first-article bring-up, fixture builds, production line support, factory and supplier visits, and pre-compliance sessions at a test lab.
- Hybrid that works well: a remote specialist owns the design while someone near the hardware runs the measurements they ask for, with shared logs, photos and scope captures.
- Say in your brief what has to happen in person and where. We will tell you plainly whether we can cover it locally or how we would split it.
Skills you can hire by
- Firmware: STM32 and ARM Cortex-M, BLE, RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr), embedded Linux, CAN and CAN FD, bootloaders and secure updates.
- Electronics: hardware architecture, analog and mixed-signal design, power electronics, PCB layout and DFM.
- Sensing: sensor integration, optics and photonics, biomedical signal processing.
- Mechanical and analysis: enclosure design, FEA and CFD, thermal management, industrial design.
- Each skill page lists the real specialists on the bench who hold it. If nobody does yet, the page says so rather than padding the list.
Local resources worth knowing
- MAGNET is Northeast Ohio's manufacturing extension partner, part of the national MEP network, and helps manufacturers with growth and production questions.
- JumpStart supports Northeast Ohio startups with programs and capital.
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University and the University of Akron run engineering programs, sponsored research and student design projects that suit early feasibility work.
- NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland works with industry through its technology transfer and partnership offices.
How to start
- Write a short brief or upload what you already have: a spec, a sketch, a schematic, a BOM or the code. Start at talentbadger.com/start.
- Choose a discovery call, a written proposal, or both. You will hear back within one business day.
- The proposal names who would do the work and a first fixed piece of work, and the statement of work sets scope, schedule and billing terms before anything starts.
Common questions
Some work is done from Northeast Ohio and much of the bench works remotely from elsewhere. Talent Badger is operated from Cleveland alongside Kyros Engineering, and the bench is organized by skill rather than location, because the right STM32 or optics specialist is rarely within commuting distance.