Hardware Engineering Director - Optics

Hardware Engineering Director - Optics

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

Leads a high performance technical engineering team in the specification and qualification of HPE-branded interconnect devices for use across HPE Networking platforms. Responsible for operational success, strategic alignment and integration of activities with other internal engineering and supply chain organizational functions. Responsible for optical/electrical interconnect hardware engineering. Acts as a key advisor to executive and product line management in influencing the strategic direction of the HPE Networking business. Reports to VP Hardware Engineering in HPE Networking.

Responsibilities:

• Use industry expertise to develop strategy and technology roadmaps for optical/electrical interconnect device design and development engineering, for use across HPE Networking platforms.
• Lead technical engagement with industry optics suppliers in interconnect technology/product roadmaps strategies and alignment.
• Articulate HPE’s interconnect device strategic vision and communicate technology roadmaps to executive staff, Product Line Managers, industry partners and customers.
• Provide technical assessments of optics supplier technologies and product readiness to HPE supply chain organization to support supplier selection for product qualification.
• Maintain awareness of relevant industry standards developments, e.g. IEEE 802.3 projects, OIF. Provide technical guidance to HPE standards representatives on topics of strategic importance.
• Lead development and delivery of HPE Procurement Specifications (P-Specs) of optical/electrical interconnect devices for external supplier product development and internal engineering system hardware/software integration.
• Lead qualification of optics interconnect devices through Optical Design Verification Testing (ODVT) and review/approval of supplier quality/reliability/regulatory compliance reports.
• Support HPE supply chain organization in documentation review and approval for interconnect device NPI production releases.

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Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. degree in Optoelectronics, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 15+ years’ industry experience, with at least 5+ years in a managerial role.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Industry expert in optical/electronic interconnect solutions with a broad, up-to-date view of global market use-cases and trends.
• Broad and deep knowledge of optical/electrical interconnect device technologies, digital signal processing, component integration and packaging innovations.
• Demonstrated experience (10+ years) in overall architecture of optical/electronic hardware for interconnect products and solutions.
• Up-to-date global view of optics/electrical interconnect component and sub-component vendor landscape.
• History of innovation with multiple patents in the field of optoelectronics hardware design.
• Demonstrated experience (5+ years) in managing 10+ technical member team and optics test laboratory.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at the most senior organizational levels.

Impact/Scope:

• Collaborates across functions to deliver multidisciplinary engineering solutions.
• Typically interacts with high-level Individual Contributors, Managers, Directors, and VPs and SVPs for internal and external suppliers, partners, and customers.
• Drives large and complex cross-organizational business initiatives.

Complexity:

• Leads highly-complex multidisciplinary engineering development, support, and improvement activities and organizations.
• Anticipates operational needs and impact on the business and function or department.

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

Director

    

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 183,000 - 389,500 in California
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

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