Principal Hardware Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Private Limited; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Career development

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Private Limited is seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer for the Networking BU. The role focuses on end-to-end hardware design for Routers and Ethernet Switches used in hyperscale data centers, with responsibilities spanning architecture, design, validation, and cross-functional collaboration.

The position requires a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and typically 15+ years of experience, with a strong emphasis on high-speed interfaces and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Typically 15+ years experience.
• Experience with high-speed serial interfaces (50G, 100G).
• Experience designing hardware in routers/switches architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and delivery of hardware products.
• Collaborate with PLM team to understand market requirements and architecture details.
• Define architecture and hardware specifications; develop component-level designs.
• Advance the complete hardware design flow: schematic entry, PCB layout, SI, power, thermal, FPGA.
• Manage PCB stack-up, vendor interactions, and manufacturing collaboration.
• Support product lifecycle from prototype to production; hardware bring-up and testing.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architecture decisions across teams.

Skills

High-speed interfaces

x86 CPU architecture

PCB design experience

EMC testing

Power & Thermal

English communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Principal Hardware Engineer

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

Job Family Definition

Designs, analyses, develops, modifies and evaluates electrical/electronic parts, components, sub-systems, algorithms, or integrated circuitry for Routers (access, edge and core) and Ethernet Switches. Conducts feasibility studies, design margin and validation analyses and empirical testing on new and modified designs. Assists in architecture development and assessment. Evaluates reliability of materials, properties, designs, and techniques used in production. May direct support personnel in the preparation of detailed design, design testing and prototype fabrication.

Management Level Definition

Hardware Engineering Team under Networking BU is working on the most leading edge technologies for Routers and Ethernet Switches used in Hyperscale Data Centres for AI, Service Providers, Enterprise Networks. Team is responsible for end-to-end design and development of solutions. Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent. Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization.

What you’ll do

• Owning End-to-End responsibility of designing and delivering the product
• Working closely with PLM Team, understanding the Market Requirements and coming-up with architecture details
• Defining architecture, product description details, authoring hardware functional specifications
• Complete Hardware Design Flow – Schematic Entry, selecting components, working with various teams – eCAD, PCB Layout, SI, Power, Mechanical, Thermal, FPGA
• Specifying PCB Stack, working with PCB vendors, supply chain and manufacturing teams
• Working with CM and/or ODM and taking the product through complete lifecycle – proto to production
• Hardware Bring-up, testing, supporting various test teams – EDVT, MDVT, EMC, HALT, SI, IEEE
• Working closely with Diagnostic Software Team for design validation and manufacturing testing.
• Working with Software, Software Test Teams, debugging complex system issues.
• Develops organization-wide architectures and methodologies for electrical hardware design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
• Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with technology and development guidelines and standards; integrates suggestions, updates, and innovations into overall architecture and leads platform architecture process across business.
• Leverages recognized domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less- experienced staff members to set an example of electrical hardware design and development innovation and excellence.

What you need to bring

Education and Experience Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Typically 15 + years experience

Knowledge and Skills

• Using electrical design tools and software packages.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience in designing hardware using high speed serial interface with speed of 50G, 100G with NRZ, PAM4
• Experience with x86 CPU architecture
• Experience designing high layer count boards(18+) including 50G+ signals, and advanced PCB manufacturing technologies
• Experience working with multi-phase DC/DC’s for high current, high transient loads
• Experience working with high speed interfaces, such as DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR, PCIe Gen3, PCIe Gen4, NVMe SSD
• Experience in overall architecture of electronic hardware for products and solutions.
• Designing and integrating electronic components, integrated circuitry, and algorithms into overall architecture.
• Evaluating, proposing, and selecting forms of empirical analysis, modeling and testing methodologies to validate component, circuit, and hardware designs and thermal/emissions management to be used across the organization.
• History of innovation with multiple patents in the field of electronics packaging.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.
• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at business unit and executive levels.

Accessibility: HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here . Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

What We Can Offer You

• Health & Wellbeing: We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development: We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion: We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job: Engineering Job Level: TCP_05

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Experience Level: Senior Level