Who You’ll Work With
As a Hardware System Engineer at Arista, you will collaborate closely with customers, strategic partners, and experienced internal cross-disciplinary team leaders. You’ll be at the center of driving customer-focused programs forward, ensuring deliverables are met on time to support our customers' internal development and deployment goals.What You’ll Do
In this critical role, you’ll lead hardware product development efforts from concept through release to volume production. Approximately 75% of your time will be focused on the New Product Introduction (NPI) process, while the remaining 25% will support Manufacturing. Your success in the role will rely on strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills to keep projects aligned and moving forward.Creating statement of work (SoW) documents for complex technical programsInterface with key customers and strategic partners to develop program plans including negotiating schedules, milestone deliverables, prototype allocations, and feature set.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.Prepare and present weekly program status updates to Director/Senior VP level audiences through the course of the programYou will be responsible for tracking and reporting on the overall state of your programs, as well as identifying and solving any concerns prior to them causing impact. Create a master schedule that captures and inter-connects the key cross-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.