Technical Program Manager (Hardware, PEL)

Arista Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Income protection

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Arista Networks is seeking a Hardware Technical Program Manager in Santa Clara, California. In this pivotal role, you will lead hardware product development from conception to release, working with a cross-disciplinary engineering team and key partners.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of NPI engineering experience, exceptional project management skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Competitive salary range is $122,000 to $200,000 based on experience and location.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of NPI hardware engineering and leadership experience.
• Experience with rack-mounted data center or enterprise equipment.
• Exceptional project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create statement of work and product requirement documents for technical programs.
• Lead cross-functional engineering team through the NPI process.
• Facilitate engineering meetings and ensure program milestones are met.
• Track and report on cross-functional design engineering validation.

Skills

NPI hardware engineering and leadership experience

Project management skills

Communication skills

Hardware development knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering or equivalent experience

Job description

Hardware Technical Program Manager

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.

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

The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $122,000 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. US‑based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection.

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. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.