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Principal Software Test Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company · 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- 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. USCIS also records 167 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- 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. 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 roles59 certified filings for “Systems/Software Engineer III” (Software Developers) in CA: $149k–$206k, median $183k. Most were filed at wage level II (43%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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Sponsor Radar — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
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. USCIS also records 167 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Principal Software Test Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation 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: Principal Software Test Engineer - Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation Location (HYBRID): Sunnyvale, CA HPE Networking is seeking a Principal Solution Test & Automation Engineer to drive quality engineering for large-scale networking and distributed software solutions. This is a highly technical Individual Contributor role requiring visible technical impact on products and major components, customer success, and engineering excellence. The role combines strong software testing expertise, system-level engineering knowledge, customer engagement, and technical leadership. The successful candidate will be recognized as an internal authority in key technology areas, drive innovation in automation and validation, and improve product quality, scalability, observability, and reliability across the product lifecycle. You will partner closely with engineering, architecture, product management, sales engineering, services, support, and customers to validate complex networking solutions, establish scalable quality engineering practices, and deliver long-lasting improvements to engineering productivity and product quality. In addition to technical execution, you will provide leadership across functions, mentor engineers, and help define the future direction of solution validation and automation. Success in this role requires visible technical impact on products or major components, recognized expertise in key technology areas, contributions to cross-functional initiatives, mentorship and knowledge sharing, and innovation that advances customer outcomes and business objectives. Solution Validation & Customer Engagement • Understand customer deployments, business requirements, architectures, and large-scale operational environments to develop comprehensive validation strategies. • Lead validation efforts for customer solutions and complex networking deployments. • Collaborate with customers, field engineers, solution architects, sales engineers, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions and operational readiness. • Participate in and influence technical design workshops, architecture reviews, and strategic planning discussions to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and serviceability. • Translate customer requirements into repeatable, solution-focused validation frameworks. • Present technical findings, risk assessments, quality recommendations, and executive-level updates to customers and internal stakeholders. • Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve customer outcomes and product quality. Automation & Quality Engineering • Contribute to and help drive automation strategy across products, programs, and engineering teams. • Architect, develop, and evolve scalable automation frameworks supporting functional, integration, system, resiliency, scale, perform