Hardware Technical Program Manager

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.

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!

Learn enough about our product to understand our approach.

Listen to some of our hardware-centric episodes of Oxide and Friends . A few recommendations:

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.

Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.

Our families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us; our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that.

We offer the best medical PPO, dental, and vision plans we can find and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.

Everyone at Oxide makes $275,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)