Hardware Technical Program Manager

• 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., * 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!, * 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

Life at Oxide

We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:

• Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
• Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
• Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
• Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
• Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
• Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn - and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
• Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.

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.

$275,000 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule, Everyone at Oxide makes $275,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)