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.
As a hardware technical program manager at Oxide, you will:
Manage a portfolio of electrical 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.
Coordinate with EE/ME team to develop EVT/DVT/PVT milestones, entry and exit criteria, and validation test plans
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.
You will thrive in this role if you:
Have experience as an electrical engineer or in electronics manufacturing, but are drawn to the programmatic elements of organizing and guiding work for an engineering team.
Love the gritty details of part and system design, material selection, and different manufacturing processes printed circuit board fabrication and assembly.
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.
Value professional development such as pursuing IPC-A-610 certifications or reading the Printed Circuits Handbook!
Before applying for this role, you should:
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