Director, High-Performance Workstation Platform Engineering

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 174,050 - 278,450; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Parental leave

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Vacation & sick leave

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Director of Hardware Engineering & Platform Execution for HP Z Workstations in Fort Collins, CO. You will provide executive leadership across multiple concurrent workstation programs, from architecture through post-launch, ensuring top-tier quality and on-time delivery.

The role requires 15+ years in hardware delivery, strategic thinking, and strong cross-functional collaboration with senior engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Senior-level engineering leader with hardware, systems, or platform engineering experience.
• 15+ years in the computer hardware delivery industry.
• Experience at large-scale technology companies preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive-level leadership across multiple concurrent workstation programs, including new platforms and platform refreshes.
• Own platform execution across architecture alignment, design readiness, validation, manufacturing ramp, and post-launch quality.
• Serve as final arbiter for technical risk, priority tradeoffs, scope decisions, and schedule commitments.
• Partner across program functional groups to ensure team alignment to deliver excellence in execution, quality, and design decisions.
• Lead multiple senior managers and extended leadership teams across hardware and firmware development, validation, performance, OS enablement, and platform integration.
• Own workforce strategy, including hiring plans, succession planning, promotions, and long-term capability development.
• Establish organizational operating models balancing in-house capabilities with ODMs and partners.
• Provide coaching and executive sponsorship to senior technical leaders and managers.
• Maintain executive oversight of workstation platform architectures and development functions including board and system design, and system performance.
• Set development strategies for owned functional areas to ensure platform robustness and customer readiness.
• Sponsor engineering automation, data pipelines, benchmarking systems, and tools to improve scale and efficiency.
• Lead portfolio-level resourcing, funding prioritization, and cost tradeoff studies.

Skills

Executive leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Hardware engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Director of Hardware Engineering & Platform Execution for HP Z Workstations in Fort Collins, CO. You will provide executive leadership across multiple concurrent workstation programs, from architecture through post-launch, ensuring top-tier quality and on-time delivery.

The role requires 15+ years in hardware delivery, strategic thinking, and strong cross-functional collaboration with senior engineering teams.