Senior Hardware Engineering Manager

F5 Networks, Inc; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineering Manager to lead a new Hardware Development Team.

This role is a first-level management position responsible for planning, tracking, and delivering hardware platforms, while coordinating with other development functions across the organization. You will establish strategies, manage resources, and drive product quality to meet platform delivery commitments.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent required.
• 10+ years of professional hardware development experience.
• 5+ years leading or managing a development team.
• Proven ability to deliver products on time and within budget.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and mentor direct reports.
• Experience with bug tracking and triage systems.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Willingness to travel up to ~10%.

Responsibilities

• Uphold F5’s ethics and policies.
• Lead team sourcing, interviewing, onboarding, and performance management.
• Establish policies to drive efficiency while maintaining quality.
• Participate in technical reviews and risk communication to senior management.
• Provide guidance to meet schedules and resolve technical problems.
• Attend project team meetings and manage task prioritization to meet milestones.
• Collaborate with Project Management to develop schedules and budgets.
• Coordinate prototype system build and test with Manufacturing teams.
• Communicate roadmaps and project status to staff and other product teams.
• Evaluate new technologies for applicability to architecture and design.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Strategic planning

Communication

Mentoring

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Verilog HDL

PCB layout tools

Electronic test equipment

Job description

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Job Description

F5 is seeking an accomplished Senior Hardware Engineering Manager to manage a new Hardware Development Team. This is a first-level management position. This position will be responsible for planning, tracking, and delivering hardware platforms. You will lead by establishing strategies and plans that are aligned and coordinated with other development functions throughout the F5 organization. You will coordinate project timelines with Project and Development Managers, determine and obtain resources, assign work, monitor progress and results, and provide technical leadership. You will be a champion for product quality and accountable for meeting commitments on platform delivery schedules.

Key Responsibilities:

• Uphold F5’s Business Code of Ethics and promptly report violations of the Code or other company policies.

• Actively manages team, including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, coaching and mentoring, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.

• Establishes, revises, and upholds policies, processes and procedures to drive higher efficiency while maintaining quality.

• Participates in technical reviews and communicates risks to senior management.

• Provides guidance and advice to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.

• Attends regular project team meetings, monitors and tracks tasks, and prioritizes work as appropriate to ensure milestones are met.

• Works with Project Management teams to develop and administer schedules; provides input into budgeting.

• Works with Manufacturing teams to coordinate and manage prototype system build and test efforts.

• May communicate product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management, and other product teams.

• Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.

• May maintain and renew equipment and software tool licenses.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Understand and comply with F5 internal processes and requirements.

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent required.

• 10+ years of professional experience in hardware development.

• 5+ years leading or managing a development team.

• Proven ability to deliver products of the highest quality, on time and within budget.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams.

• Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.

• Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Advanced multitasking of job duties and/or projects.

• Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends). Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling.

Preferred:

• Advanced system-level & board-level troubleshooting experience.

• Expertise in electrical and electronics engineering design and test methodologies.

• Thorough understanding of high-speed design concepts and practices.

• Hands-on design experience with x86 CPUs, FPGAs, 100G+ SerDes, network switches, and high-layer count PCBs.

• Expertise in PCB technologies.

• Experience in networking & high-speed digital design.

• Experience with system and board level power distribution.

• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools.

• Experience with electrical test equipment, including digital oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, BERTs, etc.

• Experience with Verilog HDL programming.

• Knowledge of DFx requirements.

Knowledge of compliance and regulatory design requirements.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [e-mail].