# Hardware Board Design Engineer

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Annual Salary USD 140,500 - 285,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Hardware Board Design Engineer to work on developing cutting-edge, high-end routing platforms. As a Hardware Board Design Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, analyzing, developing, modifying, and evaluating electrical/electronic parts, components, sub-systems, algorithms, or integrated circuitry for electrical/electronic equipment and other hardware systems.

Responsibilities:

- Participate in product feasibility and definition

- Own hardware design and hardware test, including specifications, schematics, BOMs, prototype lab bring-up and maintenance, hardware test plans and reports

- Collaborate with hardware engineering teams, including signal integrity, power, thermal, PCB design, mechanical, DFM/DFT, and lab technicians

- Review and approve test reports and support EDVT, MDVT, NEBS, HALT, Safety, and EMC teams

- Participate in defining diagnostics tests for manufacturing and development

- Train and support manufacturing, customer support, and sustaining teams

- Collaborate with software, test, and diagnostics engineering

- Work with program managers and engineering leads to provide project status

- Work with component engineering and commodity managers on external component selection and qualification

- Interface with external component suppliers on implementation and debug

Requirements:

- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

- 8+ years of experience with board design

- Solid proficiency in electrical circuit and schematic design

- Strong experience designing boards with embedded Intel CPU or AMD CPU

- Strong experience with high-speed memory interfaces such as DDR5

- Strong experience with design and debug of boards with interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, clocks

- Knowledge of how BIOS and UEFI play a role with CPU board design, bringup, and testing

- Knowledge of systems design considerations from several angles: software, firmware, PCB layout, signal integrity, mechanical, thermal, power, EMI compliance, manufacturability, testability, MTBF, and COGS

- Awareness of PCB stackup techniques for multiple-layer, high-speed printed circuit boards

- Hands-on experience and skilled debugging proficiency using lab measurement equipment (high-speed oscilloscope)

- Excellent communication skills in a cross-functional team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

- Capable Python programming and scripting skills

- Familiarity with FPGA operation, debug, and reading Verilog code

- Knowledge of security considerations for a CPU subsystem

- Hands-on experience with PCIe protocol analyzer and I2C debugging test equipment

- Experience using Cadence Allegro PCB Designer layout tool and Cadence System Capture schematic capture tool

- Experience in a Unix/Linux environment

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Board Design
- Electrical Circuit Design
- Schematic Design
- High-Speed Memory Interfaces
- PCIe
- Ethernet
- I2C
- SPI
- Clocks
- BIOS
- UEFI
- PCB Layout
- Signal Integrity
- Mechanical
- Thermal
- Power
- EMI Compliance
- Manufacturability
- Testability
- MTBF
- COGS

### Nice to have
- Python Programming
- FPGA Operation
- Verilog Code
- Security Considerations
- PCIe Protocol Analyzer
- I2C Debugging Test Equipment
- Cadence Allegro PCB Designer
- Cadence System Capture
- Unix/Linux Environment

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