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Salary: USD 145,000 - 200,000 / annual
Arista Networks is seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager to lead customer-driven hardware product development programs from concept through volume production. This is a critical role ensuring that programs meet customer needs and prevent delays to internal development and deployment timelines.
You will work directly with experienced cross-disciplinary engineering team leaders, customers, and strategic partners to drive hardware product development. You will lead cross-functional engineering teams through the New Product Introduction (NPI) process, managing the transition from concept through release to mass production.
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, including negotiating schedules, milestone deliverables, prototype allocations, and feature sets
- 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 before they impact delivery
- 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
- Driving, coordinating, and monitoring engineering programs including scheduling, planning, cost analysis, and milestone checkpoint reviews
- Driving cross-functional issue resolution with clear ownership and tracking to closure
- Facilitating the engineering portion of phase gate review meetings
Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills are essential for success in this role.
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
- Education: Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering or equivalent experience. MS/MBA and PMP are desirable.
