# Senior Principal Hardware Engineer

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Annual Salary USD 181,000 - 367,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Hardware Design Engineer to join our team and lead the design and development of next-generation networking hardware. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with 10+ years of experience in complex hardware board design and a proven track record of taking designs from initial concept through production.

This role requires deep expertise in high-speed signaling, high-power and extremely dense PCB designs, FPGA development, signal integrity analysis, thermal management using liquid cooling, and mechanical design/integration. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate exceptional technical ownership, and work collaboratively across hardware, firmware, software, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing teams.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Own the end-to-end hardware design lifecycle, from system architecture and concept development through schematic design, PCB layout, bring-up, validation, qualification, and production.

- Lead the design of high-performance, high-density, high-power circuit boards with demanding electrical, thermal, and mechanical constraints.

- Design systems incorporating high-speed serial signaling and interconnects at 100G, 200G, and beyond.

- Develop and review complex schematics, power architectures, clocking solutions, high-speed interfaces, and board-level architectures.

- Design and develop FPGA solutions as required, including FPGA selection, device configuration, interfaces, implementation, bring-up, and hardware/firmware integration.

- Perform and/or drive Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) analysis.

- Work on liquid-cooled scale-up system architectures, including high-bandwidth, high-performance interconnects and systems requiring significant compute, power, and bandwidth density.

- Collaborate with thermal and mechanical engineering teams on liquid cooling architectures, cold plates, manifolds, flow paths, thermal interfaces, and system-level thermal solutions.

- Identify technical risks early and develop practical solutions to ensure successful execution against aggressive schedules.

**Required Qualifications**

- 10+ years of hands-on hardware/board design experience with complex, high-performance electronic systems.

- Experience designing high-speed systems with 100G/200G-class signaling or comparable high-bandwidth interfaces.

- Experience designing high-power, extremely dense PCBs and electronic systems.

- Hands-on experience with FPGA design, including the ability to independently design and implement FPGA-based solutions when required.

- Strong knowledge of Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) principles.

- Experience with scale-up systems and high-performance computing, networking, AI/ML, accelerator, or similarly demanding architectures.

- Experience with liquid cooling systems, including the development of liquid-cooled hardware and system architectures.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a demonstrated ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.

**What We're Looking For** We are looking for an engineer who combines deep technical expertise with exceptional ownership and execution. You should be comfortable operating at both the system-architecture level and the detailed board-design level.

**Benefits**

- Health & Wellbeing: comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

- Personal & Professional Development: investment in your career with programs to help you reach your career goals.

- Unconditional Inclusion: celebration of individual uniqueness and flexibility to manage work and personal needs.

## Skills

### Required
- high-speed signaling
- PCB design
- FPGA development
- signal integrity analysis
- thermal management
- mechanical design/integration

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