Hardware Engineering Director jobs in Oakland, CA

Hardware Engineering Director directs and oversees all aspects of hardware engineering activities within an organization. Establishes policies and procedures that produce high-quality hardware products. Being a Hardware Engineering Director ensures all hardware engineering projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with organization's established polices and objectives. Requires a bachelor's degree. Additionally, Hardware Engineering Director typically reports to top management. The Hardware Engineering Director manages a departmental sub-function within a broader departmental function. Creates functional strategies and specific objectives for the sub-function and develops budgets/policies/procedures to support the functional infrastructure. Deep knowledge of the managed sub-function and solid knowledge of the overall departmental function. To be a Hardware Engineering Director typically requires 5+ years of managerial experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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Director of Hardware
  • Pyka
  • Oakland, CA FULL_TIME
  • Pyka is looking for a Director of Hardware to grow and lead our hardware focused teams. You will initially manage a combination of managers and ICs, moving to managing a team of primarily managers within two years. 

    You will set the direction on key engineering systems. You will own complex trades, helping your teams weigh conflicting objectives like cost, performance, manufacturability, engineering time, etc. You will work directly with other managers as well as executive leadership in order to triage tasks and accomplish the company's objectives. You will oversee the refinement and scale up of our existing products and will take brand new products from conceptual design through to scaled production. Success in your role will meaningfully influence the rate at which our society transitions to electric aircraft. 

    At Pyka, we prioritize fostering a positive culture built on collaboration, transparency, and employee happiness. We're seeking a Director of Hardware who shares these values and is passionate about leading our hardware-focused teams in a supportive and inclusive environment.

    This role will report directly to the CEO/CTO.

    About Pyka

    Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation.

    To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. 

    We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.

    Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. 

    Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce CO2 emissions in their respective industries. 

    What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day. 

    Responsibilities

    • Lead, manage, mentor and grow a world class team of mechanical engineers, hardware test engineers, and reliability engineers focused on all aspects of design and validation of complex hardware (aircraft structures, propulsion hardware, ground equipment)

    • Lead by example in promoting a positive and collaborative work culture

    • Ensure your team is equipped with the capabilities, tools and know-how to design, build and test hardware ranging from PLM to hardware bug tracking/resolution

    • Manage complex, frequently conflicting priorities, helping the team balance performance targets, cost targets, reliability targets, production targets, and schedule risk

    • Act as the primary interface with other key leaders within the company, helping unblock projects, manage conflicting priorities, predict future bottlenecks, etc

    • Develop and champion rigorous yet efficient design processes 

    • Mentor team members from L2 to principal level engineers

    • Curate and maintain a small set of key metrics that track the performance of your team and report said metrics to the rest of the company in a way that inspires progress and, as required, course corrections

    Preferred Qualifications

    • 10 years of experience designing, testing, and deploying complex hardware systems (vehicles preferred)

    • Experience successfully taking a complex hardware system from prototype through to production (ideally >100x units/year with a product of similar complexity to our vehicle)

    • Past experience leading an engineering team in a fast paced R&D/NPI environment 

    • Deep understanding of engineering systems and the ability to implement right-sized systems as Pyka grows

    • Deep knowledge of the physics, failure modes, and design practices relating to complex electro-mechanical systems

    • Superb communication skills with the ability to deftly handle conflicting priorities and gain alignment across different departments

    • Value simplicity and pace in both the way you design and the way you work

    • Have demonstrated principal level IC capabilities in your career

    Company Perks

    • $220,000–$270,000 per year base salary equity. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Salary ranges are subject to change.

    • Employer-sponsored health, dental and vision insurance

    • FSA with employer matching

    • 401(k)

    • Paid holidays, generous PTO, and additional unpaid time off

    • Voluntary short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance

    • Pre-tax commuter benefits

    • Free catered lunch and plenty of snacks

    Export Control Requirements

    This position requires access to technology, software and other information that is subject to governmental access control restrictions, due to export controls.  Employment in this position is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of such items, to the extent required, including without limitation an export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items. 

    Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or may modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions.

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VP of Hardware Engineering, Advanced Packaging and Networking
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  • Oakland, CA FULL_TIME
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VP of Hardware Engineering, Advanced Packaging and Networking
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  • Hayward, CA FULL_TIME
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VP of Hardware Engineering, Advanced Packaging and Networking
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  • Emeryville, CA FULL_TIME
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VP of Hardware Engineering, Advanced Packaging and Networking
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  • El Cerrito, CA FULL_TIME
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VP of Hardware Engineering, Advanced Packaging and Networking
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  • San Ramon, CA FULL_TIME
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Director of Engineering
  • Everlaw
  • Oakland, CA
  • In this role you will guide the scalable, reliable and secure building of the Everlaw platform. You will work closely wi...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director, Sourcing Engineering
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Sunnyvale, CA
  • The Microsoft Capacity, Supply Chain, and Provisioning (CSCP) group is an exciting and fast evolving engineering group w...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Senior Director, Software Engineering Management
  • ServiceNow
  • Santa Clara, CA
  • Company Description At ServiceNow, our technology makes the world work for everyone, and our people make it possible. We...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Engineering Director
  • BlackRock, Inc.
  • Sausalito, CA
  • About this role Team Overview BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignmen...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director of Engineering - Intercom
  • Verkada
  • San Mateo, CA
  • Who We Are Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only Verkada offers s...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Sr. Director of Engineering, Find & Discover
  • Fanatics
  • San Mateo, CA
  • Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans an...
  • 3/27/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Director of Engineering
  • Aspire
  • San Francisco, CA
  • About Aspire Aspire is the influencer marketing platform empowering ecommerce brands to build and cultivate influential ...
  • 3/26/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Engineering Director
  • Trimble
  • Sunnyvale, CA
  • Your Title: Director of Engineering Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA (no remote option) Our Department: Trimble Military and ...
  • 3/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

Oakland is in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay. In 1991 the City Hall tower was at 37°48′19″N 122°16′21″W / 37.805302°N 122.272539°W / 37.805302; -122.272539 (NAD83). (The building still exists, but like the rest of the Bay Area, it has shifted northwest perhaps 0.6 meters in the last twenty years.) The United States Census Bureau says the city's total area is 78.0 square miles (202 km2), including 55.8 square miles (145 km2) of land and 22.2 square miles (57 km2) (28.48 percent) of water. Oakland's highest point is near Grizzly Peak Blvd, east of Berkeley, just over 1,760 feet (...
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Income Estimation for Hardware Engineering Director jobs
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