Hardware Engineering Manager (Networking Hardware)

Location: Santa Clara, CA, United States; majority onsite at the Santa Clara headquarters with minimal remote work

Base salary: $180,000–$275,000 annually. Estimated total annual compensation, including base salary, bonus, and equity: $500,000–$800,000.

Company

hirify.global develops client-to-cloud networking solutions, including high-density Ethernet switches, for data center, campus, and routing environments, using cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking.

What you will do

• Lead multiple cross-functional teams designing and verifying a portfolio of networking Ethernet switches.
• Provide technical direction on schematic entry, PCB layout, board bring-up, system debug, and complex hardware issues.
• Translate product direction into executable system designs and coordinate priorities across multiple projects.
• Drive component and vendor roadmaps covering ASICs, connectors, PCB vendors, and manufacturing partners.
• Review signal integrity and power integrity simulations and measurements, and drive high first-pass manufacturing yields.
• Manage, mentor, and motivate hardware engineers; oversee customer escalations and improve team processes and tools.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in networking hardware design and prior technical management experience.
• Experience leading hardware engineering teams across multiple simultaneous projects and guiding direct reports, managers, cross-functional teams, and executive leadership.
• Proficiency with high-layer-count PCBs, high-speed design, embedded x86/ARM systems, gigabit-plus signaling, and high-speed buses.
• Background or knowledge in Ethernet, SMBus, SPI, PCIe, PoE, WiFi, PTP, and MDIO protocols.
• Expertise in Design for Manufacturability and collaboration with contract, original design, and joint design manufacturers.
• Demonstrated success taking products from concept through production, including regulatory compliance and prototype manufacturing capacity.
• Experience with signal and power integrity concepts and tools, including impedance, PDNs, differential routing, insertion loss, S-parameters, TDRs, and VNAs.
• Strong project management, technical documentation, schematic design, CAD collaboration, software engineering collaboration, and corrective-action skills.

Nice to have

• Background in scripting and general software development.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role based primarily onsite at the Santa Clara headquarters.
• Opportunity to work with a highly skilled hardware engineering team on networking products.
• US-based employees receive medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax-savings, and income-protection benefits.
• Additional compensation may include discretionary bonuses and equity.
• Inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace focused on diversity of thought and perspectives.