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Hardware Engineering ManagerThis role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Hardware Engineering Managers sit at the intersection of technical leadership, people management, and product delivery. This role is ideal for a seasoned hardware professional who has grown from deep technical expertise into a leader capable of guiding teams, aligning stakeholders, and delivering complex hardware programs at scale.

HPE is a global technology leader built on innovation, trust, and engineering excellence. We empower our managers with meaningful ownership-of teams, execution, quality, and outcomes-while working alongside some of the industry's strongest technical talent.

Why HPE Networking?

HPE Networking is one of our fastestgrowing and most strategic businesses, delivering open, standardsbased networking solutions across Branch, Campus, and Data Center environments worldwide. Our platforms support customers ranging from growing enterprises to the world's largest hyperscalers.

As a Hardware Engineering Manager, you will lead teams developing complex, highperformance networking hardware, ensuring technical excellence while driving predictable execution from concept through mass production.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT

As a Hardware Engineering Manager, you will lead and develop a team of hardware engineers while owning execution of hardware R&D programs across the full product lifecycle.

You will:

• Provide technical and execution leadership for hardware R&D programs, working in close partnership with domain experts and crossfunctional stakeholders
• Translate business and product strategy into clear hardware development goals, execution plans, and deliverables across the full product lifecycle
• Plan and manage resources, priorities, and timelines from product conception through mass production, ensuring alignment with program commitments
• Identify technical, schedule, cost, and resource risks early; establish and execute mitigation and contingency plans to minimize impact
• Develop, manage, and track project budgets and schedules; forecast milestones and completion dates, and proactively address threats to ontime and onbudget delivery
• Lead execution across organizational boundaries, collaborating effectively with system architecture, firmware, supply chain, and program management teams to ensure total project success
• Ensure design quality through structured design reviews, margin analysis, validation planning, and handson technical oversight
• Build, lead, and develop highperforming hardware engineering teams through effective performance management, coaching, and talent development
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning for the team
• Communicate clearly and regularly with engineering and business leadership by presenting project status, risks, tradeoffs, and progress updates through reviews and management presentations

Why This Role Stands Out

• Balanced role combining people leadership and deep technical ownership
• Direct impact on highperformance networking platforms deployed globally
• Opportunity to lead and grow senior and principallevel engineers
• Strong influence over execution quality, schedules, and delivery outcomes
• Culture that values engineering rigor, mentorship, and longterm growth
  

About You

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline
• Peoplecentric leader with a passion for mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers at all career stages
• Proven ability to build, grow, and sustain highperforming, collaborative teams, including across global or multisite environments
• Demonstrated success in creating clear development plans, providing actionable feedback, and strengthening technical depth and leadership capability within teams
• Strong execution mindset, with experience prioritizing work, aligning resources, and managing risk to deliver consistent results
• Solid blend of technical depth and business judgment, enabling effective decisionmaking and tradeoff discussions
• Trusted technical leader who influences design direction, engineering standards, and team practices beyond a single project
• Practical understanding of highspeed hardware design, including signal integrity, power integrity, and systemlevel performance

Additional Preferred Abilities

• Strong crossorganizational influence and stakeholder partnership skills
• Confident, autonomous decisionmaker with a balanced peopleanddelivery mindset
• Clear, persuasive communicator capable of influencing at all levels
• Passion for coaching, talent development, and longterm team growth

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (), Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {(5)}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Manager_1"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
- United States of America: Annual Salary USD 153,500 - 310,500 in California
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

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