Senior Manager, Hardware & Firmware Development

Senior Manager, Hardware & Firmware Development

Job Category
: MT3

Requisition Number
: SENIO
002829

• Posted :
  December 16, 2025
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Olmsted Township, OH 44138, USA

Vitamix is unquestionably the premium brand of high‑performance “blenders,” and known for its top‑notch company culture and climate. It is an important component of what makes Vitamix unique and successful, and the reason why Vitamix is recognized as a Top Workplace, North Coast
99 Winner, and Smart Culture Award recipient.

Throughout its 100+ year history, Vitamix has encouraged and promoted healthy lifestyles for both its customers and employees. Employees enjoy multiple wellness programs and perks, a free Vitamix machine, and an onsite fitness center. Vitamix also offers a flexible work environment, great work culture, healthy living initiatives like fitness reimbursements, and opportunities for advancement.

For consumers, Vitamix can be found domestically in places like William Sonoma, Sur la Table, Crate & Barrel, Target, Amazon, and at , and is in over 130 countries around the world.

Ultimately, Vitamix is the Global‑leader in high‑performance blending solutions for home and commercial use, is preferred by chefs and is found in many of top restaurants around the world. It is relied upon by culinary schools in the U.S. and has been used to train thousands of students and master chefs worldwide. If it is not a Vitamix, it’s just a blender.

Vitamix is seeking a Sr. Manager, Hardware & Firmware Development that will drive innovation across our global product portfolio by leading electrical architecture strategy and technical execution. They will oversee the hardware and firmware engineering team, establishing development frameworks and cross‑functional partnerships to ensure excellence in New Product Development (NPD). The successful candidate will have deep expertise in electrical system design and a strong knowledge of hardware and firmware development practices.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Define and implement electrical architecture strategy to enable current and future product roadmaps, ensuring performance, safety, reliability, and cost requirements are achieved.
• Translate strategic business objectives into actionable engineering plans, driving team alignment and accountability to ensure technical execution directly supports organizational goals.
• Provide technical leadership for the electrical engineering discipline, including oversight of technical reviews and decisions, driving design optimization, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement across the technical portfolio.
• Ensure compliance with relevant global safety standards and regulatory requirements (UL, CE, FCC, etc.).
• Establish and maintain design standards, best practices, and development processes.
• Integrate a firmware development process within the existing NPD framework including Quality Assurance processes and firmware release schedules.
• Partner with Product Management to understand market needs, customer pain points, and competitive landscape to capture Voice of Customer insights and translate them into Voice of Engineering requirements.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Supply Chain teams to develop and implement Value Engineering strategies to drive product cost out while maintaining quality and performance standards.
• Work closely with mechanical engineering teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to ensure seamless integration of electrical and mechanical systems, optimizing for design efficiency and assembly simplification.
• Drive component standardization and platform strategies in partnership with Supply Chain to leverage volume purchasing and reduce inventory complexity.
• Partner with Quality to drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for field issues and design concerns.
• Lead and mentor a team of electrical hardware and firmware engineers in the design, prototyping, testing, and troubleshooting of electrical systems, including PCBAs, UIs, motors, control systems, and firmware.
• Manage team capacity, resource allocation, and project prioritization across multiple concurrent development work streams.

The ideal…