# Senior Hardware Engineering Manager – R&D Networking Platforms

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Bengaluru, Karnātaka
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineering Manager to lead multiple teams and managers responsible for developing complex, high-performance networking hardware. As a Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, you will provide direct and ongoing leadership for an organization of multiple subordinate managers and senior individual contributors, while owning delivery and strategic alignment across hardware R&D programs.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for multiple hardware engineering teams designing electrical and electronic subsystems, integrated circuitry, and platform solutions.

- Manage headcount, budgets, schedules, and deliverables across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring alignment with business priorities, roadmaps, and financial commitments.

- Drive execution from architecture alignment through mass production, ensuring quality, reliability, and cost targets are achieved.

- Partner closely with program management, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, architecture leaders, and executives to communicate status, escalate risks, and influence strategic decisions.

- Act as a key advisor to senior leadership on technology direction, organizational capability, and long-term investment strategy.

- Lead cross-organizational execution, enabling alignment across engineering, operations, and external partners.

- Manage relationships with outsourced development partners and suppliers, setting clear expectations around quality, cost, delivery, and accountability.

- Proactively identify process improvements, efficiency gains, and cost-reduction opportunities across teams and programs.

- Provide overall people-care leadership, including hiring, talent development, performance management, succession planning, and organizational design.

- Foster a strong culture of engineering rigor, accountability, mentorship, and continuous improvement across the organization.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline; advanced degree preferred.

- Typically, 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years of people management, preferably managing managers and senior technical staff.

- Proven ability to apply expert-level technical knowledge to guide teams solving complex hardware and system-level challenges.

- Strong background in hardware design, validation, and product development lifecycles, enabling credible technical leadership.

- Advanced leadership skills in coaching, team building, conflict resolution, and performance management.

- Demonstrated success managing human capital across geographies, driving capability growth and consistent execution.

- Strong business acumen, with the ability to balance technical excellence, cost, schedule, and risk.

- Exceptional communication skills, able to engage and influence engineers, peers, and executive stakeholders.

- Comfortable operating in high-ambiguity, high-impact environments, with strong prioritization and decision-making skills.

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

- Investment in career development and growth.

- Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- hardware design
- validation
- product development
- leadership
- coaching
- team building
- conflict resolution
- performance management

### Nice to have
- experience managing large spans of control
- deep understanding of enterprise policies, processes, and governance models
- advanced relationship management and consulting skills
- strategic thinking

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