Hardware Technical Program Manager

Do you like to bring order to chaos by working with a team of talented, uplifting people? We are seeking a hardware technical program manager to help us organize, track, and prioritize our hardware efforts. This is an intensely collaborative position, and while it’s very remote-friendly, candidates must be able to work a US Pacific timezone schedule.

• Manage a portfolio of electrical and mechanical design programs from prototype to new product introduction to sustaining engineering.

• Work with teams across the company to ensure our hardware, software, and manufacturing are all designed together.

• Coordinate with key suppliers on component evaluation, qualification, and prototype/development hardware procurement.

• Refine and systematize our engineering change order (ECO) management process for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring proper implementation.

• Work with hardware design teams to identify dependencies, milestones, and risks to keep program schedules as close to reality as possible.

• Coordinate DFM/DFT reviews between key suppliers and our hardware design team.

• Design and implement an obsolescence risk and product change notification management program.

• Manage vendors and coordinate with the broader operations and engineering teams on test plans and documentation for product regulatory and safety testing.

• Partner with the Quality team to develop controlled documents and specifications for supplier management.

• Love the gritty details of part and system design, material selection, and different manufacturing processes such as sheet metal forming and printed circuit board fabrication. Excitement to explore new and different methods of fabrication is also a plus!

• Get energy from enabling great engineering in a rapidly growing company.

• Question assumptions and care deeply about not just making sure products are safe and compliant, but also that the end-user experience is awesome.

• Have experience with all stages of a product’s life cycle and enjoy developing systems that can be built and work reliably at scale!

• Build trust through understanding the details, organizing work, and empowering teams.

• Believe in fully documenting your ideas.

• Enjoy reading the documentation produced by others.

• Learn enough about our product to understand our approach.

• Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work.

• Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.

• Listen to some of our hardware-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends. A few recommendations:

  • Integrating Hardware and Software Teams on the benefits of having hardware and software engineers working together

  • The Power of Proto Boards! on how we quickly iterate on board design

  • Cabling the Backplane on the mechanical and electrical design of the backplane

  • Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 to hear about how everything came together for our first customer shipment

  • Scaling Manufacturing about our experience rapidly ramping our manufacturing and supply chain.

  • Raiding the Minibar about a test rig we’ve developed for our manufacturing line

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