Senior Hardware Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead a new Hardware Development Team as a first-level manager, responsible for planning, tracking and delivering hardware platforms.

What you'll do

• Uphold F5's Business Code of Ethics and promptly report violations of the Code or other company policies.
• Actively manage the team, including sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, coaching and mentoring, conducting performance evaluations, approving PTO, developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.
• Establish, revise and uphold policies, processes and procedures to drive higher efficiency while maintaining quality.
• Participate in technical reviews and communicate risks to senior management.
• Provide guidance and advice to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.
• Attend regular project team meetings, monitor and track tasks, and prioritize work to ensure milestones are met.
• Work with Project Management teams to develop and administer schedules and provide input into budgeting.
• Work with Manufacturing teams to coordinate and manage prototype system build and test efforts.
• Communicate product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management and other product teams.
• Evaluate and review new technologies for applicability to product architecture and design.
• Maintain and renew equipment and software tool licenses.
• Coordinate project timelines with Project and Development Managers, determine and obtain resources, assign work, monitor progress and results, and provide technical leadership.

What you'll need

• Understand and comply with F5 internal processes and requirements.
• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years of professional experience in hardware development.
• 5+ years leading or managing a development team.
• Proven ability to deliver products of the highest quality, on time and within budget.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams.
• Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.
• Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Advanced multitasking of job duties and/or projects.

Nice to have

• Advanced system-level and board-level troubleshooting experience.
• Expertise in electrical and electronics engineering design and test methodologies.
• Thorough understanding of high-speed design concepts and practices.
• Hands-on design experience with x86 CPUs, FPGAs, 100G+ SerDes, network switches and high-layer count PCBs.
• Expertise in PCB technologies.
• Experience in networking and high-speed digital design.
• Experience with system and board level power distribution.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools.
• Experience with electrical test equipment, including digital oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, BERTs, etc.
• Experience with Verilog HDL programming.
• Knowledge of DFx requirements.
• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory design requirements.

Details

• May be on call periodically or work outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
• May require travel by automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time.