Principal VLSI/ ASIC Design Engineer

Job Title

Principal VLSI/ ASIC Design Engineer

Role Summary

Lead architecture, RTL design, implementation, and analysis of complex VLSI components and SoC solutions for networking, compute, and related applications. Serve as a technical authority across product teams, influence architectural direction and roadmaps, and mentor engineering staff.

Experience Level

Senior - typically requires 9+ years of experience in ASIC, VLSI, SoC, or related hardware design.

Responsibilities

Accountable for driving ASIC design from early architecture through production readiness and for providing cross-functional technical leadership.

• Lead early-stage ASIC architecture and microarchitecture exploration for complex SoC applications.
• Define architectural approaches, implementation plans, and design methodologies aligned with product requirements.
• Design, develop, and modify complex RTL blocks using industry-standard HDLs.
• Drive RTL implementation through synthesis, timing closure, physical implementation support, and signoff.
• Analyze tradeoffs across performance, power, area, scalability, reliability, and schedule.
• Establish operating expectations via modeling, simulation, prototyping, and empirical evaluation.
• Conduct design reviews and enforce architecture, implementation, and quality standards.
• Create integration plans for new IP, tools, and design practices across products.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, verification, physical design, software, manufacturing, and external partners.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and influence decisions across business units.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience required to perform the role effectively.

• Advanced knowledge of ASIC and VLSI design principles, digital logic, and SoC development.
• Proven experience developing complex RTL using Verilog, SystemVerilog, or comparable HDLs.
• Familiarity with full ASIC development flows: architecture, RTL coding, synthesis, timing analysis, and physical design interaction.
• Experience with design modeling, simulation, performance analysis, and empirical evaluation methods.
• Strong analytical and technical decision-making skills; ability to evaluate design alternatives and tradeoffs.
• Experience defining or improving design methodologies, automation, and engineering practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to present technical concepts to technical and executive audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate across distributed, cross-functional teams and to influence stakeholders without direct authority.

Nice-to-have (preferred)

• Experience with networking ASICs, DPUs, switching, routing, packet-processing pipelines, or high-performance compute architectures.
• Familiarity with formal verification, constrained-random verification, coverage methodologies, or verification planning.
• Experience with low-power design, CDC/CDC handling, DFT, design-for-reuse, and high-speed interfaces.
• Experience working with IP vendors, foundries, or outsourced development partners.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.

About the Company

Company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Headquarters: Spring, TX, United States

Global enterprise technology company delivering hybrid cloud, edge-to-cloud platforms, servers, storage, networking, and IT services to help organizations build, run, and secure applications and infrastructure at scale.