Senior High-Speed Hardware Design Engineer (Liquid-Cooled)

HITEC; Sunnyvale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 367,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to lead the design and development of next-generation networking hardware. The role requires hands-on expertise in high-density, high-power PCB design, FPGA, SI/PI, and liquid cooling.

The candidate will own end-to-end hardware lifecycle, collaborate across hardware, firmware, software, and mechanical teams, and operate in a fast-paced environment to deliver production-ready systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on hardware/board design experience with complex, high-performance electronic systems.
• Experience designing high-speed systems with 100G/200G-class signaling or comparable high-bandwidth interfaces.
• Experience designing high-power, extremely dense PCBs and electronic systems.
• Hands-on FPGA design experience and ability to implement FPGA-based solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) principles.
• Experience with scale-up systems and HPC, networking, AI/ML, accelerators or similarly demanding architectures.
• Experience with liquid cooling systems and liquid-cooled hardware architectures.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end hardware design lifecycle from architecture to production.
• Lead design of high-performance, dense circuit boards under strict constraints.
• Design systems with 100G/200G signaling and beyond.
• Develop complex schematics, power architectures, clocking, high-speed interfaces.
• Design FPGA solutions and integrate hardware/firmware.
• Perform SI and PI analysis and validation.
• Collaborate with thermal and mechanical teams on liquid cooling architectures.
• Identify risks early and drive mitigation to meet aggressive schedules.

Skills

Hardware design

FPGA design

Signal integrity

Thermal management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to lead the design and development of next-generation networking hardware. The role requires hands-on expertise in high-density, high-power PCB design, FPGA, SI/PI, and liquid cooling.

The candidate will own end-to-end hardware lifecycle, collaborate across hardware, firmware, software, and mechanical teams, and operate in a fast-paced environment to deliver production-ready systems.