Hardware Engineering Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
Qualifications
- Proven ability to build, grow, and sustain high-performing teams.
- Strong execution mindset to deliver consistent results.
- Practical understanding of high-speed hardware design.
Responsibilities
- Lead teams developing complex networking hardware.
- Translate business strategy into clear hardware development goals.
- Manage resources, priorities, and timelines from conception to production.
Skills
Education
Job description
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge‑to‑cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We value diverse backgrounds and succeed together. We offer flexibility to manage work and personal needs, make bold moves, and serve as a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career, our culture will embrace you and open opportunities with HPE.
At Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Hardware Engineering Managers sit at the intersection of technical leadership, people management, and product delivery. This role is ideal for a seasoned hardware professional who has grown from deep technical expertise into a leader capable of guiding teams, aligning stakeholders, and delivering complex hardware programs at scale. HPE is a global technology leader built on innovation, trust, and engineering excellence. We empower our managers with meaningful ownership—of teams, execution, quality, and outcomes—while working alongside some of the industry’s strongest technical talent.
HPE Networking is one of our fastest‑growing and most strategic businesses, delivering open, standards‑based networking solutions across Branch, Campus, and Data Center environments worldwide. Our platforms support customers ranging from growing enterprises to the world’s largest hyperscalers.
As a Hardware Engineering Manager, you will lead teams developing complex, high‑performance networking hardware, ensuring technical excellence while driving predictable execution from concept through mass production.
As a Hardware Engineering Manager, you will lead and develop a team of hardware engineers while owning execution of hardware R&D programs across the full product lifecycle.
- Provide technical and execution leadership for hardware R&D programs, working in close partnership with domain experts and cross‑functional stakeholders
- Translate business and product strategy into clear hardware development goals, execution plans, and deliverables across the full product lifecycle
- Plan and manage resources, priorities, and timelines from product conception through mass production, ensuring alignment with program commitments
- Identify technical, schedule, cost, and resource risks early; establish and execute mitigation and contingency plans to minimize impact
- Develop, manage, and track project budgets and schedules; forecast milestones and completion dates, and proactively address threats to on‑time and on‑budget delivery
- Lead execution across organizational boundaries, collaborating effectively with system architecture, firmware, supply chain, and program management teams to ensure total project success
- Ensure design quality through structured design reviews, margin analysis, validation planning, and hands‑on technical oversight
- Build, lead, and develop high‑performing hardware engineering teams through effective performance management, coaching, and talent development
- Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning for the team
- Communicate clearly and regularly with engineering and business leadership by presenting project status, risks, trade‑offs, and progress updates through reviews and management presentations
- Balanced role combining people leadership and deep technical ownership
- Direct impact on high‑performance networking platforms deployed globally
- Opportunity to lead and grow senior and principal‑level engineers
- Strong influence over execution quality, schedules, and delivery outcomes
- Culture that values engineering rigor, mentorship, and long‑term growth
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline
- People‑centric leader with a passion for mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers at all career stages
- Proven ability to build, grow, and sustain high‑performing, collaborative teams, including across global or multi‑site environments
- Demonstrated success in creating clear development plans, providing actionable feedback, and strengthening technical depth and leadership capability within teams
- Strong execution mindset, with experience prioritizing work, aligning resources, and managing risk to deliver consistent results
- Solid blend of technical depth and business judgment, enabling effective decision‑making and trade‑off discussions
- Trusted technical leader who influences design direction, engineering standards, and team practices beyond a single project
- Practical understanding of high‑speed hardware design, including signal integrity, power integrity, and system‑level performance
- Strong cross‑organizational influence and stakeholder partnership skills
- Confident, autonomous decision‑maker with a balanced people‑and‑delivery mindset
- Clear, persuasive communicator capable of influencing at all levels
- Passion for coaching, talent development, and long‑term team growth
Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross‑Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management, Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow‑Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity, Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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Job Level: Manager_1
Engineering
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 153,500 - 310,500 in California
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.
Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html
HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/ Disabled/ LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities. HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.
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