Senior Manager, Lifecycle Management & Reliability (Hardware Networking)

Location: Ottawa, Canada

Annual salary: $129,700–$253,100

Company

hirify.global builds high-speed connectivity infrastructure and networking products for the AI era.

What you will do

• Lead and develop multidisciplinary hardware engineering teams supporting packet and optical networking platforms from development and qualification through manufacturing, sustaining, field support, and end-of-life.
• Provide technical leadership for electrical, optical, FPGA, SerDes, memory, interface, power, manufacturing, and product-quality investigations.
• Drive cross-functional decisions across hardware design, product engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, software, systems engineering, product management, suppliers, and customer-facing organizations.
• Lead component obsolescence, alternate sourcing, qualification, cost-reduction, engineering change, and supply-continuity initiatives.
• Make risk-based decisions on product changes, substitutions, manufacturing readiness, supplier issues, field quality, and corrective actions.
• Analyze qualification, manufacturing, field-return, reliability, and failure-analysis data to identify risks and improve product quality, lifecycle management, and organizational scalability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of hardware engineering experience in telecommunications, networking, or optical systems, including 3+ years leading engineering teams, technical projects, or cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience supporting products through development, qualification, manufacturing, sustaining, field service, and end-of-life.
• Strong foundation in hardware design, product qualification, reliability engineering, manufacturing, product quality, failure analysis, and root-cause analysis.
• Technical breadth across electrical, optical, and power technologies, with the ability to lead complex investigations.
• Experience making risk-based decisions involving engineering changes, component substitutions, qualifications, manufacturing readiness, supplier issues, field quality, product lifecycle management, configuration management, and component qualification.
• Ability to hire, develop, and retain engineering talent, prioritize competing technical and business issues, and influence stakeholders across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, product management, and executive leadership.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Experience with telecommunications transport platforms, packet networking systems, or high-speed networking products.
• Experience with FPGA- and ASIC-based platforms and high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, SPI, I²C, and chip-to-chip interconnects.
• Familiarity with power architectures, analog circuitry, hardware monitoring systems, and manufacturing-test methodologies.
• Experience with reliability prediction, FMECA, or structured reliability engineering methodologies.
• Experience with Agile PLM, Jira, Confluence, engineering dashboards, automation tools, and data analytics.
• Familiarity with global manufacturing operations, supplier management, and contract-manufacturing environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with opportunities for development and meaningful work in a collaborative environment.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans, DCPP participation in Canada with company matching, ESPP, EAP, paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable family and other leaves.
• Non-Sales employees may be eligible for a discretionary incentive bonus.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, respect, and equal employment opportunity.