Hardware Project Manager

Job Title: Hardware Technical Project Manager

Location: Mountain View, CA 94043

Duration: 6-12 Months Contract

Qualifications (Skills & Experiences & Education)

• Years of Relevant Experience: Minimum years of relevant experience needed to perform the job
• 10+ years of technical program management experience, specifically in electronic hardware development

Education:

Required

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field

Desired

• MBA and/or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field
• Program Management certificate is strongly preferred!

Skills: General skills needed to perform the job

• Expert communicator across cultural and team boundaries
• Expertise in motivating teams and fostering a collaborative and productive environment
• Background in managing multiple and competing stakeholder interests; establishing trust, clear roles and responsibilities, and good will between partner engineering organizations
• Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
• Collaborate and work with partners for hardware development and tests
• Collaborate and work with multiple teams across geographies and time zones

Specialized Skills: Knowledge or certifications unique to this role

Required

• Extensive knowledge of establishing project schedules, financial parameters, and technical requirements, managing projects from initiation to mass production
• Strong technical background with a good understanding of manufacturing, manufacturing processes, materials, electronics, and mechanical aspects
• Extensive knowledge of electrical HW development, specifically circuit design and validation preferred
• Prior experience in automotive projects, especially in the field of Electronic Control Unit (ECU)

Desired

• NPI project experience
• Test/Assembly process support: test code verification, test automation, bug reporting, test process improvements and cost reductions
• Work Flexibility: Physical requirements, travel requirements, work schedule, etc.
• Occasional travel may be required, less than 15%

Role Summary:

• The Technical Program Manager, Electrical Engineering role within the Hardware organization is intended for an individual with broad background in electronic hardware development, significant experience with project management and hardware launch management for mass production.
• The Technical Program Manager will be responsible for achieving project objectives of on time, on spec, on budget and on quality deliveries and will be responsible for coordinating internal meetings with hardware team members and coordinate task with international development team and contract manufacturing plants.
• Additionally, you will be responsible to work with ECU Hardware manufacturing partner in a joint development mode starting from project initiation, PCB Layout, mechanical housing, prototype build, test setup, DV testing, quality process, capacity planning, manufacturing line readiness and mass introduction.

Role Responsibilities: List essential functions in order of importance; include percentage of time spent performing each function (total should equal 100%)

ECU Hardware Project Management – (80%)

• Responsible for achieving project objectives of on time, on spec, on budget and on quality deliveries.
• Responsible to prepare, maintain and track formal project plans including schedules and deliverables, including those from the EE, ME, ID and FW teams and other teams as needed.
• Communicate engineering requirements, specifications, project schedule, and budget constraints to cross-functional teams, including engineers, senior management and consultants.
• Responsible for project, resource planning, reporting and escalation.
• Support HW project team in procuring new Hardware (HW) / Software (SW) tools and working with corresponding vendors in setting up the same.
• Work with SoC silicon vendors for the on-going projects in getting technical support with respect to HW and SW for those SoCs.
• Administer a formal review process to validate each development phase has completed successfully, and the product is ready for the next phase

Launch Management with Manufacturing Partner - (20%)

• Responsible and main interface for manufacturing partner from project initiation to launch.
• Establish project schedule, financial parameters and technical requirements with manufacturing partner.
• Work closely with Failure Analysis Engineers and to provide guidance to the debug technicians and develop better understanding of the product.
• Test/Assembly process support: test code verification, test automation, bug reporting, test process improvements and cost reductions.
• Technical and project management interface with development team for Layout, Mechanical assembly as part of joint development project.
• Responsible for early engagement of manufacturing team for design review, DFM, Testing setup, DV plan/executing etc.
• Coordinate with manufacturing partner from early prototype build, production line set up, quality review, QA plan, ramp up plan, end of line test setup plan, mass production plan, strategy for field quality issue resolution etc.
• Arrange review at each quality gate with manufacturing partner

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $55.00 - $60.00 per hour

Work Location: In person