HPE
Senior Principal Hardware Engineer
$181K–$367K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on hardware/board design experience; the posting also specifies 10+ years with the listed specialized experience.
About the job
Leads end-to-end design and production of high-performance networking hardware, including dense, high-power boards, FPGA solutions, and liquid-cooled systems.
What you'll do
- Own hardware design from architecture and schematics through PCB layout, bring-up, validation, qualification, and production.
- Design high-speed, high-density, high-power boards and systems, including 100G/200G-class interconnects and FPGA solutions.
- Drive signal and power integrity analysis and collaborate on liquid-cooling, thermal, and mechanical integration.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hands-on complex hardware/board design experience, including 10+ years of the listed specialized experience.
- Experience designing high-speed 100G/200G-class or comparable systems and high-power, extremely dense PCBs.
- Hands-on FPGA design capability and strong Signal Integrity and Power Integrity knowledge.
- Experience with scale-up systems and demanding compute/networking architectures, plus liquid-cooling systems.
Pay
USD 181,000 - 367,000 (base salary)
Tools
FPGA, 100G, 200G, Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI), liquid cooling
AI focus
Hardware design for scale-up architectures including AI/ML and accelerator systems.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative