Technical Program Manager (Hardware, PEL)

Arista; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site gym & showers

401k plan

PTO & paid holidays

Wellness programs

Job summary

Arista is seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager to guide hardware product development from concept to mass production. You will lead cross‑functional teams across hardware, software, and manufacturing to meet milestones and customer expectations.

You will create SoW/PRD, drive design reviews, and manage schedules, risks, and resource planning with customers and partners. Strong leadership and communication are essential for timely delivery of complex enterprise equipment.

Qualifications

• Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences, and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, define, document, implement new processes
• Exceptional project management skills
• Design engineering, New Product Introduction, and manufacturing experience with rack-mounted data center or enterprise equipment
• Experience interfacing with product management, internal cross-functional engineering teams, and sub-tier suppliers
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills
• Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time
• Significant working knowledge of hardware development
• Experience working with multiple engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, software, diagnostics, test, and manufacturing engineering team members
• 10+ years of NPI hardware engineering and leadership experience

Responsibilities

• Arista is seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager to drive hardware product development from concept through release to mass production
• Lead cross-functional engineering team through the NPI process and manage SoW and PRD for complex programs
• Own and facilitate weekly cross-functional engineering team meetings with internal teams and partners
• Interface with customers and strategic partners to develop program plans, schedules, and feature sets
• Track and report design validation and qualification status, solving concerns to prevent delays
• Create a master schedule linking key deliverables across the product development lifecycle
• Lead design reviews, bug scrubs, and milestone checkpoint reviews
• Coordinate program cost analysis, planning, and resource allocation across HW, SW, Central, Diagnostics, and ODM/JDM teams
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution and escalate to functional leaders as needed
• Facilitate engineering portions of phase gate review meetings

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

NPI hardware

Scheduling & milestone tracking

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Leadership

Executive summaries

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical or industrial engineering

MS/MBA and PMP desirable

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Regular ”Snack Bash” Social Events with food and drinks!
• Biweekly Wellness webinars plus regular Wellness Week events focused on physical, mental, spiritual and financial wellness as well as career development and social activities
• Arista Gives Back: Employee Engagement Giving Drives and Volunteer events
• Medical, Dental & Vision Plan Coverage
• Life Insurance, AD&D, STD & LTD
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Programs
• PTO & Paid holidays
• 401k Plan
• On-site Gym & Showers
• Secured Bike Lockers
• Secured Bike Lockers
• Flexible hours
• Employee Assistance Benefits that include mental health and backup child and elder care support
• Discounted lunches through WeBox for HQ employees
• Family planning benefits

Qualifications

Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences, and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders

Demonstrated ability to take initiative, define, document, implement new processes

Exceptional project management skills

Design engineering, New Product Introduction, and manufacturing experience with rack-mounted data center or enterprise equipment

Experience interfacing with product management, internal cross-functional engineering teams, and sub-tier suppliers

Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills

Education: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering or equivalent experience. MS/MBA and PMP desirable

Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time

Significant working knowledge of hardware development

Experience working with multiple engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, software, diagnostics, test, and manufacturing engineering team members

10+ years of NPI hardware engineering and leadership experience