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