# Principal Hardware Engineer

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Annual Salary USD 153,500 - 310,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer to join our team in Sunnyvale, California. As a Principal Hardware 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

- Specifications, schematics, BOMs, prototype lab bring-up and maintenance, hardware test plans and reports

- Serve as technical lead and collaborate with the following hardware engineering teams: signal integrity, power, thermal, PCB design, mechanical, DFM/DFT, lab technicians

- Review/approve test reports and support the following: EDVT, MDVT, NEBs, HALT, Safety, EMC teams

- Participate in defining diagnostics tests for manufacturing and development

- Training and support of manufacturing, customer support and sustaining teams

- Collaborate with technical publications team, software, test and diagnostics engineering

- Work with program manager and engineering lead 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

- Mentor and review the work of junior hardware engineers

- Flexible hours to accommodate collaboration with engineering teams across geographies

Minimum Qualifications:

- 10+ years of experience with board design and/or FPGA design

- Expert level proficiency in electrical circuit and schematic design, including experience with embedded CPU and SoC subsystems

- Deep knowledge of systems design considerations from many angles including software, firmware, BIOS, PCB layout, signal integrity, mechanical, thermal, power, EMI compliance, manufacturability, testability, MTBF and COGS

- Proficient in advanced design techniques for multiple-layer, high speed printed circuit boards

- Experience with design and debug of PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, clocks, high speed SerDes and high speed memory interfaces

- Hands-on experience and strong debugging proficiency using lab measurement equipment such as high speed oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers and VNAs.

- Experience with FPGA design and operation. Proficiency with Verilog programming, FPGA simulation and FPGA synthesis process

- Experience in a Unix/Linux environment

- BS, MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience designing network routers and switches to high volume quantities with outstanding production quality

- Understanding of core routing, edge routing, switching, forwarding, switch fabrics, WAN interfaces, pluggable optics (QSFP-DD, OSFP), campus and data center customer network design, testing, deployment and troubleshooting

- Hands-on experience testing complex L2/L3 products with Ethernet packet generators such as Ixia or Spirent

- Industry experience using Cadence Allegro PCB Designer layout tool and ePD/Viewlogic schematic capture tool

- Python, Perl or TCL programming skills; scripting and test automation experience

## Skills

### Required
- board design
- FPGA design
- electrical circuit design
- schematic design
- embedded CPU
- SoC subsystems
- systems design
- PCB layout
- signal integrity
- mechanical
- thermal
- power
- EMI compliance
- manufacturability
- testability
- MTBF
- COGS
- PCIe
- Ethernet
- I2C
- clocks
- high speed SerDes
- high speed memory interfaces
- Verilog programming
- Unix/Linux

### Nice to have
- network routers
- switches
- core routing
- edge routing
- switching
- forwarding
- switch fabrics
- WAN interfaces
- pluggable optics
- campus and data center customer network design
- testing
- deployment
- troubleshooting
- Ethernet packet generators
- Cadence Allegro PCB Designer
- ePD/Viewlogic schematic capture tool
- Python
- Perl
- TCL programming
- scripting
- test automation

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