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Senior Hardware Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sunnyvale, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/21/2026
This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation 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

As a key contributor in the HW Sustaining group, you will be responsible for investigating and remediating critical hardware issues involving Juniper’s flag-ship networking products. You will document and share root cause findings and drive corrective actions. You will also drive hardware quality improvements into the next generation of Juniper products, based on lessons learned from these investigations.

To be successful in this role, you will need the technical expertise to analyze and debug complex hardware products. You will require the ability to manage multiple priorities, and to drive issues to closure in a timely fashion. You will have to communicate and collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to drive hardware quality goals. You will be a knowledge resource and an advocate for customer-focused hardware quality improvements in Juniper products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead failure analysis for critical hardware issues reported from field and factory. Determine and document root cause and corrective actions (RCCA).
  • Extract and share "Lessons Learned" from HW Sustaining failure analysis and share with appropriate Juniper teams to drive hardware quality improvement.
  • Collaborate with other Engineering and Manufacturing / Operations teams to drive corrective actions and hardware quality improvements. Work with Customer Support teams to understand and address customer hardware concerns.
  • Analyze hardware quality metrics and Repair Center findings to identify failure trends requiring investigation.
  • Provide technical leadership into multi-sourcing and change management activities on shipping products.
  • Review hardware test reports for new products prior to product release. Identify any quality concerns and work with the design teams to resolve.
  • Mentor and guide junior members, foster a collaborative environment, and encourage curiosity and knowledge sharing.

Basic Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical, Electronics, or Computer Engineering
  • 8 years of hardware design, debug and testing experience at the board and system level.
  • Expertise in debugging hardware problems using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and specialized networking test equipment such as IXIA/Spirent traffic analyzers, PCI analyzers, and in-circuit emulators
  • PCB design experience including schematic capture, PCB layout and routing. Familiarity with Cadence System Design tool suite.
  • Knowledge of networking hardware and associated components and interfaces such as switch ASICs, PHY, SerDes, CPU subsystems, optics, high-speed serial links, PoE, PCIe, NVMe, SATA, I2C, and USB.
  • Expertise in high speed circuit design and debug. Familiarity with signal and power integrity concepts and associated test and simulation tools.
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities and make progress. Able to manage hardware debug and design projects and driving them to closure.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with cross functional teams, vendors and customers.
  • Team player with superior collaborative and project leadership skills and a focus on driving results.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience in FPGA design and debug. Familiar with Verilog HDL and common FPGA design and simulation tool suites.
  • Knowledge of complete hardware product life cycle from design and development through end-of-life.
  • Familiarity with Engineering Change Management and Product Lifecycle Management tools such as Agile PLM.
  • Experience in working with external vendors and partners including global CMs and ODM/JDM.
  • Familiar with hardware reliability concepts and calculations including MTBF, FIT rates, component DPPM, etc.
  • Awareness of DFX concepts, particularly design for quality, reliability, resiliency and usability.
  • Experience working with power and timing circuits and components.
  • Ability to organize, analyze and interpret large quantities of data. Good documentation and presentation skills and the ability to share data-driven analysis and results.

Additional Skills

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)

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

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The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

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– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered." "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 276,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

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