Principal VLSI/ ASIC Design Engineer

Principal VLSI/ ASIC Design 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:

The Principal VLSI/ASIC Design Engineer is responsible for the architecture, RTL design, implementation, and analysis of complex VLSI components and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. This role contributes to early-stage architecture and design exploration and carries concepts through detailed design implementation for networking, compute, and other complex SoC applications.

The engineer will serve as a recognized technical authority in ASIC and VLSI design, influencing product strategy, technology roadmaps, architectural direction, and implementation methodologies across organizations and business units. The role requires strong technical leadership, innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to mentor engineers while delivering high-quality, scalable, and production-ready designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead early-stage ASIC architecture and design exploration for complex networking, compute, and SoC applications.
• Define architectural approaches, microarchitectures, design methodologies, and implementation plans aligned with product requirements and technology roadmaps.
• Design, develop, and modify complex RTL blocks using industry-standard hardware description languages and design practices.
• Drive RTL implementation from architectural definition through synthesis, physical implementation support, timing closure, and production readiness.
• Analyze design tradeoffs involving performance, power, area, scalability, reliability, and time to market.
• Develop and evaluate VLSI components and hardware systems across multiple platforms and product organizations.
• Conduct design reviews and evaluate product designs for compliance with architecture, implementation guidelines, quality standards, and industry best practices.
• Establish operating data and performance expectations through analytical modeling, simulation, prototyping, and experimental evaluation.
• Provide tangible, data-driven feedback to improve product quality, reduce design risk, and mitigate potential product failures.
• Contribute to organization-wide ASIC design architectures, methodologies, and standards.
• Create integration plans for incorporating new technologies, IP, design practices, and implementation improvements into existing architectures.
• Identify emerging technologies, innovations, tools, and external partnerships that support business objectives and technology roadmaps.
• Review material specifications, hardware designs, electrical component requirements, and related technical documentation.
• Collaborate with architecture, hardware, firmware, verification, physical design, systems, software, manufacturing, and external development teams.
• Influence technical decisions made by business leadership, development partners, suppliers, and industry standards organizations.
• Provide technical leadership for significant projects and programs, connecting teams across functions around common objectives.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and promote design innovation, engineering excellence, and knowledge sharing.
• Serve as an internal authority on ASIC and VLSI engineering, providing consultation across organizations and business units.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Typically, 9 + or more years of experience in ASIC, VLSI, SoC, or related hardware design.
• Demonstrated experience designing complex RTL blocks for networking, compute, communications, storage, or other advanced SoC applications.
• Experience leading architecture and design exploration through RTL implementation and product integration.
• Design verification experience is not required but is highly desirable.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Advanced knowledge of ASIC and VLSI design principles, digital logic, RTL design, and SoC development.
• Proven experience developing complex RTL using Verilog, System Verilog, or comparable hardware description languages.
• Understanding of ASIC development flows, including architecture, microarchitecture, RTL coding, synthesis, timing analysis, physical design interaction, and design signoff.
• Experience with design modeling, simulation, performance analysis, and empirical evaluation methodologies.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical decision-making skills.
• Ability to evaluate design alternatives and make recommendations based on performance, power, area, cost, risk, and schedule.
• Experience defining and improving design methodologies, tools, automation, and engineering practices.
• Demonstrated innovation, including the development or adoption of new technologies, methodologies, or design practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to communicate architectural proposals, design plans, tradeoffs, risks, and results effectively.
• Proven ability to influence decisions across business units, functions, senior leadership, external partners, and industry organizations.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working effectively across geographically distributed, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to mentor engineers and provide technical direction without direct management responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with networking ASICs, data-processing units, switching, routing, acceleration, storage, or high-performance computing architectures.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces, packet-processing pipelines, memory subsystems, interconnects, or performance-critical datapaths.
• Familiarity with formal verification, constrained-random verification, coverage methodologies, or verification planning.
• Experience with low-power design, clock-domain crossing, reset-domain crossing, DFT, and design-for-reuse methodologies.
• Knowledge of industry standards and leading-edge ASIC implementation technologies.
• Experience working with outsourced development partners, IP vendors, foundries, or semiconductor suppliers.

Leadership and Impact

• Makes substantial technical contributions to significant HPE products, programs, or strategic architectural initiatives.
• Acts as a go-to creator and innovator for critical business and technology challenges.
• Delivers unique, long-lasting improvements in areas such as time to market, product quality, cost reduction, scalability, and customer value.
• Is recognized as an internal authority in key ASIC, RTL, and VLSI technology areas.
• Provides technical leadership for major projects and programs and unites teams around common goals.
• Actively mentors engineers and contributes to the broader technical community.

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