# Senior Hardware Manager

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 181,000 - 367,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a highly skilled and dynamic Senior Hardware Manager to join our team and lead the hardware development and release processes. This role is ideal for someone with a minimum of 7-10 years of management experience in the Networking/Communications hardware industry, including hands-on expertise with Contract Manufacturing (CM) and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) development methodologies.

As a Senior Hardware Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing the design, development, and manufacturing of hardware products, while ensuring the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness throughout the lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead, manage, and mentor a hardware development team, ensuring high performance, innovation, and effective collaboration across design, engineering, and manufacturing teams.

- Oversee the entire hardware lifecycle from concept through production, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

- Work closely with CM/ODM partners to drive hardware design, manufacturing and assembly processes, ensuring quality, cost-effectiveness, and timely production.

- Collaborate with hardware and software architects, software development and test teams, and product management teams to define hardware requirements, specifications, and timelines.

- Ensure hardware meets product requirements by managing bring-up and lab testing activities.

- Drive DVT testing, validation, and certification processes.

- Identify and mitigate risks associated with hardware design, production, and supply chain issues.

- Oversee the development of hardware prototypes with focus on continuous improvement and eventual release to production.

- Drive and participate in reviews of design documentation, schematics and PCB designs, and hardware test plans.

- Develop and implement processes to improve hardware performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

Qualifications:

- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

- Experience: 7-10 years of management experience in hardware development, with hands-on experience in Contract Manufacturing (CM) and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) development methodologies.

- Strong background in of hardware design, prototyping, and manufacturing processes, including Board design, high-power SoC based systems, and CPU subsystem design.

- Proven track record of managing product development for Networking (Switching/Routing/Security) Systems.

- Excellent understanding of supply chain management, production schedules, and cost optimization.

- Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams.

- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and lead teams to meet deadlines and business objectives.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to negotiate and manage vendor, partner, and customer relationships.

- Strong problem-solving skills, ability to troubleshoot complex hardware development challenges, and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in managing complex, high-speed design including high-speed interconnects, high power and high thermal products is strongly preferred.

- Experience in emerging technologies like liquid cooled systems, latest optical transceiver technologies like CPO, CPC is strongly desired.

- Knowledge of software and firmware development processes as they relate to hardware.

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. – United States of America: Annual Salary USD 181,000 - 367,000 in California.

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## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Contract Manufacturing
- Original Design Manufacturer
- Hardware Development
- Networking
- Communications

### Nice to have
- high-speed design
- liquid cooled systems
- optical transceiver technologies
- software and firmware development

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