# Hardware Project Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,800.00 to $163,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Network Hardware Engineering group (NHE) at Cisco creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for customers globally.

As a Hardware Project Manager, you will act as the primary orchestrator for next-generation platforms, driving the end-to-end product lifecycle while ensuring financial rigor and seamless alignment across our engineering and business partners.

Responsibilities:

- Steer end-to-end hardware program development from initial concept through customer release, defining clear priorities, breakthroughs, and comprehensive execution plans.

- Orchestrate complex, multi-functional programs by aligning hardware and software engineering, product management, and operations teams to ensure cohesive delivery.

- Proactively monitor program health, identify risks and dependencies, and drive timely issue resolution through actionable recommendations to partners.

- Champion continuous process improvements, governance frameworks, and the integration of automation and AI-enabled tools to enhance operational efficiency.

- Coordinate financial integrity and resource allocation, ensuring that budgets are tracked accurately and projects remain within scope and on schedule.

- Facilitate seamless collaboration between internal teams, manufacturing partners, and external suppliers while providing transparent status updates to leadership.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science with 5+ years, or a master’s degree in engineering or computer science with 3+ years, of hardware or manufacturing program/project management or relevant experience.

- Experience applying Jira and Confluence to track project dependencies, risks, and issue resolution.

- Experience handling end-end programs including budget oversight, schedule management, and breakthrough tracking.

- Experience in advanced spreadsheet management, including the use of data modeling and visualization to track project metrics.

- Experience implementing AI-powered tools or workflows to improve operational efficiency or project delivery speed.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Demonstrated experience with Design Verification Testing (DVT) processes within hardware development lifecycles

- Knowledge of hardware manufacturing environments and production workflows

- Background in supply chain operations or procurement strategies for complex hardware programs

- Current project management certification (e.g., PMP, CAPM, PRINCE2)

- Proven ability to navigate and influence outcomes in a highly matrixed, globally distributed organization

- Experience balancing rapid program execution with long-term operational and quality priorities

- Familiarity with managing cross-functional dependencies in fast-paced engineering environments

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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## Skills

### Required
- Jira
- Confluence
- project management
- hardware development
- AI-powered tools

### Nice to have
- Design Verification Testing (DVT)
- hardware manufacturing
- supply chain operations
- procurement strategies
- project management certification

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