Establishes, revises, and upholds policies, processes and procedures to drive higher efficiency while maintaining quality.
Participates in technical reviews and communicates risks to senior management.
Provides guidance and advice to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.
Attends regular project team meetings, monitors and tracks tasks, and prioritizes work as appropriate to ensure milestones are met.
Works with Project Management teams to develop and administer schedules; provides input into budgeting.
Works with Manufacturing teams to coordinate and manage prototype system build and test efforts.
May communicate product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management, and other product teams.
Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.
May maintain and renew equipment and software tool licenses.
Qualifications
Required
Understand and comply with F5 internal processes and requirements.
BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent required.
10+ years of professional experience in hardware development.
5+ years leading or managing a development team.
Proven ability to deliver products of the highest quality, on time and within budget.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams.
Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.
Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Advanced multitasking of job duties and/or projects.
Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends). Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling.
Preferred
Advanced system-level & board-level troubleshooting experience.
Expertise in electrical and electronics engineering design and test methodologies.
Thorough understanding of high-speed design concepts and practices.
Hands-on design experience with x86 CPUs, FPGAs, 100G+ SerDes, network switches, and high-layer count PCBs.
Expertise in PCB technologies.
Experience in networking & high-speed digital design.
Experience with system and board level power distribution.
Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools.
Experience with electrical test equipment, including digital oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, BERTs, etc.
Experience with Verilog HDL programming.
Knowledge of DFx requirements.
Knowledge of compliance and regulatory design requirements.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.
