Hardware Engineering Program Manager

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing benefits

Personal & Professional Development programs

Inclusive culture celebrating uniqueness

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP is seeking a Hardware Engineering Program Manager to drive multiple hardware engineering projects. You will be responsible for managing project timelines, facilitating communication among teams, and delivering data-driven updates to stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and at least 2 years of project management experience. The role requires excellent organizational skills and familiarity with hardware processes.

Benefits include comprehensive health support and opportunities for personal and professional development.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of program or project management experience in hardware engineering.
• Proven ability to manage concurrent hardware projects.
• Familiarity with hardware engineering processes and project management tools.

Responsibilities

• Drive hardware engineering projects ensuring milestones and deliverables are tracked.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration across teams.
• Identify process gaps and drive improvements.

Skills

Program management

Hardware engineering

Communication and organization

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Excel

Teams

PowerPoint

Job description

Hardware Engineering Program Manager

This role is onsite, with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Responsibilities

• Drive multiple active hardware engineering projects, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and deliverables are clearly defined and tracked.
• Leverage engineering background to understand hardware engineering process and flows.
• Anticipate risks, dependencies, and roadblocks; proactively plan for next steps and contingencies to ensure successful outcomes and timely closure.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration embodying HPE’s “win together” culture; convene and coordinate project meetings.
• Track progress and provide updates; drive alignment and accountability.
• Ensure focus on critical projects in an environment of competing and changing priorities.
• Deliver crisp, data‑driven updates to stakeholders and leadership; ensure all information needed to drive good decisions is available to decision makers.
• Identify process gaps and opportunities for improvement.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.

2+ years of program or project management experience in the hardware engineering domain.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent hardware projects with varying complexity and drive them to closure on schedule.
• Familiarity with hardware engineering concepts, processes and workflows involved in design, debug, test and change management.
• Excellent communication, organization, and documentation skills.
• Proven track record in managing stakeholders, driving accountability and enabling communication and collaboration across cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to identify risks and drive mitigation plans.
• Familiarity with project management tools and processes.
• Proficiency in using common documentation and collaboration tools (e.g., Excel, Teams, PowerPoint).
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Program management training; familiarity with program management body of knowledge (PMBOK).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to crisply communicate key takeaways at different levels of detail for different audiences.
• Familiarity with networking products and industry.
• Growth mindset and ability to navigate through uncertainty.
• Customer focus and passion for delivering quality products.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing – comprehensive suite of benefits supporting physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development – programs to support career growth.
• Unconditional Inclusion – inclusive culture celebrating individual uniqueness.

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; all decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.