Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 486 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
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What Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles13 certified filings for “Senior Systems/Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in TX: $150k–$157k, median $152k.
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Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 486 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 13 certified filings for “Senior Systems/Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in TX: $150k–$157k, median $152k. Most were filed at wage level IV (75%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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About the role
Test Engineer, HPC & AI Systems
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work 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:
Role Impact
This role is essential to the success of the HPC IST organization, ensuring that lab infrastructure, test systems, and inventory are available, operational, and compliant to support complex system validation activities. By providing hands-on technical support, managing lab operations, enabling remote access, and maintaining system configurations, the engineer improves testing efficiency, minimizes downtime, and helps deliver reliable HPC and AI solutions that meet HPE quality standards.
About You
• You are motivated by working on leading-edge hardware and HPC technologies that support next-generation AI development and applications.
• You understand HPC hardware and software setup.
• You can analyze and troubleshoot system configurations problems and work independently.
• You work closely with team members locally and around the world in support of their projects.
• You support remote test execution and troubleshooting.
• You possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You grow your knowledge and expertise on new leading-edge technologies.
Knowledge and Skills
• Hands-on experience with HPE HPC platforms, including, Industry Standard Server, storage, and networking products.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems, including Red Hat, SLES, and Ubuntu.
• Understanding of network topologies, switches and configurations.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills for complex issues in collaboration with engineering and test teams.
• Ability to work effectively in a global, culturally diverse engineering team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts, issues, and recommendations.
Responsibilities
• Install, rack, stack, cable, configure, and prepare HPE HPC and AI systems, networking, storage, accelerator, and related infrastructure for engineering and validation use.
• Safely disconnect, decommission, unrack, and prepare retired or reassigned equipment for storage, shipment, reuse, or disposal in accordance with applicable processes.
• Stage lab systems with approved operating-system images, firmware, software, and configuration settings based on documented project and platform requirements.
• Perform initial troubleshooting of hardware, firmware, operating-system, network-connectivity, and system-configuration issues; document findings, escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate engineering teams, and track them through resolution.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and auditable inventory and hardware-lifecycle records for systems, components, spare parts, cables, and other lab assets.
• Conduct physical inventory reviews and reconcile discrepancies between equipment, asset records, storage locations, and tracking systems.
• Coordinate inbound and outbound hardware shipments, including receiving, inspection, packaging, labeling, documentation,
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