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.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work.

We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world.

Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here.

We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.

We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you.

Open up opportunities with HPE.

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 Opto...