Technical Program Manager, Hardware (PEL)

Arista Networks; Roseville (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Arista Networks is seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager to lead customer-driven hardware programs from concept through mass production. You will own SoW and PRD, drive cross-functional teams across HW, SW, Central, Diagnostics, and Manufacturing, and ensure milestones are met to deliver high-quality products.

The role requires deep hardware development expertise, strong leadership, and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in hardware engineering and leadership for NPI programs.
• Experience with rack-mounted data center or enterprise gear.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Create SoW and PRD for complex hardware programs.
• Lead weekly cross-functional engineering team meetings.
• Interface with customers and partners to plan milestones and allocations.
• Lead cross-functional team across HW, SW, Diagnostics, and Manufacturing.
• Track design validation and qualification status, solving issues proactively.
• Develop master schedule aligning cross-functional deliverables with lifecycle milestones.
• Chair design reviews, bug scrubs, and milestone reviews.
• Coordinate cost analysis and milestone checkpoint reviews.
• Ensure issue ownership and timely escalation to leaders.
• Facilitate engineering portions of phase gates.

Skills

NPI hardware leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Hardware development

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

MS/MBA desirable

Job description

Company Description
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.

Company Description
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.
At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.
Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

Job Description
Arista is seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager. This is a critical role, ensuring that Arista customer driven programs complete milestone deliverables to meet the customer’s needs and prevent delays to their internal development and deployment programs.

Who You’ll Work With
As a Hardware TPM you will work directly with experienced internal cross-disciplinary engineering team leaders, customers, and strategic partners to drive hardware product development from concept through release to volume production. You will lead the cross-functional engineering team through the NPI process from concept through release to mass production. Strong leadership, communications, problem solving, and communication skills are essential.
The total estimated annual compensation range for this position, inclusive of base salary, bonus, and equity, is $250,000 to $350,000. This range is a good faith estimate only. Bonus and equity are discretionary, subject to plan terms, and are not guaranteed components of total compensation. Actual total annual compensation may vary based on employee performance, company or equity performance, company policy, board approval, or similar factors. Please see additional base salary information below.

What You’ll Do

• Creating statement of work (SoW) and product requirement documents (PRD) for complex technical programs
• Owns and facilitates weekly cross-functional engineering team meetings.
• Interface with key customers and strategic partners to develop program plans including negotiating schedules, milestone deliverables, prototype allocations, and feature set.
• Lead a cross-functional team from HW, SW, Central, and Diagnostic engineering, manufacturing engineering, product management, ODM/JDM partners, and customer support to deliver outstanding products to the market.
• You will be responsible for tracking and reporting on the cross-functional design engineering validation, and qualification status of your programs, as well as identifying and solving any concerns prior to them causing impact.
• Create a master schedule that captures and inter-connects the key cross-functional deliverables as defined by the product development lifecycle and ensure the team stays on track to meet program milestones.
• Lead program design review and bug scrub meetings
• Drive, coordinate, and monitor engineering programs including scheduling, planning, product and project cost analysis, and milestone checkpoint reviews.
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution ensuring issues are identified, assigned owners, and tracked to closure. Ensure issues are escalated to the appropriate functional leaders.
• Facilitate engineering portion of phase gate review meetings

Qualifications

• 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 team members
• 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, 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 desirable.

Compensation Information

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $130,000 to $200,000.
Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location.
The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

Additional Information

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.