Engineering Program Manager

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $5 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience.  Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

As a Program Manager you will work with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to
drive hardware product development, release to manufacturing, and sustain the product
in manufacturing. You will spend ~75% of your time working in the NPI process and 25%
in Manufacturing. Strong leadership, communications, and team-building skills are
essential.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a cross-functional team from HW, SW, Central, and Diagnostic engineering,manufacturing, product management, ODM/JDM partners, and customer support to deliver outstanding products to the market.
• Based on the information presented you must be able to predict how delivery slips or quality issues in one function will affect others on the team. Anticipate the impact and prepare contingency plans.
• Create a master schedule that captures and inter-connects the key functional deliverables as defined by the product development lifecycle and ensure the team delivers. Drive and lead development milestone checkpoints.
• Drive, coordinate, and monitor Engineering programs including scheduling, planning, product and project cost analysis, early access, & first customer shipment.
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution ensuring issues are identified, owned and
• resolved.
• Ensure issues are escalated to the appropriate functional leaders.
• Identify and implement product development process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of engineering, manufacturing, and program management experience in electronics manufacturing environment.
• Exceptional project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills.
• Significant working knowledge of hardware development.
• Proven track record of managing hardware projects and delivering on time.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, develop and implement new processes.
• Experience interfacing with product management, internal engineering team, CM’s
• Ability to listen and simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences and prepare summaries for executives and stakeholders.
• Education: BSEE/ME/IE degree or equivalent. MBA and PMP desirable.

Additional Information

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.