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Arista Networks is seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager to lead customer-driven hardware product development programs from planning through volume production. This is a critical role ensuring that complex hardware initiatives meet customer needs and internal development timelines.
You will work directly with experienced cross-disciplinary engineering teams, customers, and strategic partners to drive the New Product Introduction (NPI) lifecycle. Key responsibilities include:
- Creating statements of work (SoW) and product requirement documents (PRD) for complex technical programs
- Owning and facilitating weekly cross-functional engineering team meetings
- Interfacing with key customers and strategic partners to develop program plans, negotiate schedules, define milestone deliverables, and allocate prototypes
- Leading cross-functional teams spanning hardware, software, central, and diagnostic engineering, manufacturing engineering, product management, ODM/JDM partners, and customer support
- Tracking and reporting on design engineering validation and qualification status, identifying and resolving concerns proactively
- Creating master schedules that capture and interconnect key cross-functional deliverables aligned with the product development lifecycle
- Leading program design review and bug scrub meetings
- Identifying program risks and actively developing mitigation plans with stakeholders
- Driving, coordinating, and monitoring engineering programs including scheduling, planning, cost analysis, and milestone reviews
- Facilitating cross-functional issue resolution with clear ownership and escalation paths
- Facilitating the engineering portion of phase gate review meetings
Arista is an engineering-centric company with a flat management structure where engineers have complete ownership of their projects. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara with development offices globally, including India, and considers all R&D centers equal in stature. Arista is a well-established, profitable company with over $8 billion in revenue, leading the data-driven, client-to-cloud networking space with platforms supporting Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of NPI hardware engineering and leadership experience
- Design engineering, New Product Introduction, and manufacturing experience with rack-mounted data center or enterprise equipment
- Experience working with multiple engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, software, diagnostics, test, and manufacturing engineering
- Exceptional project management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills
- Significant working knowledge of hardware development
- Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, define, document, and implement new processes
- Experience interfacing with product management, internal cross-functional engineering teams, and sub-tier suppliers
- Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences, and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electronics and communication, industrial engineering, or equivalent experience
- MS/MBA and PMP are desirable
