# Hardware architect

- **Id**: https://logicsrc.com/openskill/hardware-architect
- **Kind**: occupation
- **Domain**: Computing
- **Language**: en
- **Aliases**: computer hardware architect, hardware systems architect

A role that defines a computing system's hardware structure and the tradeoffs between its components.

## Includes

- Architecture requirements, component boundaries and interfaces.
- Reasoning about performance, power, cost, manufacturability and verification.

## Related

- [Hardware architectures](https://logicsrc.com/openskill/hardware-architectures)
- [Software engineer](https://logicsrc.com/openskill/software-engineer)

## Taxonomy

- **Broader match**: [O*NET: Computer Hardware Engineers](https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/17-2061.00)

This relationship is a mapping proposed by the OpenSkill publisher. The source concept was reviewed on 2026-09-13; no taxonomy release is asserted.

## License

Original description: CC BY 4.0, Profullstack, Inc. Linked taxonomies and example artifacts retain their own terms.