Technical Hardware Program Manager

The application window is expected to close on: 9/15/25.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team

You will work with a versatile and upbeat team of enthusiastic engineers in an environment where team members experience mutual enhancement and improvement. You will have the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally with our Hardware, Mechanical Engineering, Optics, and manufacturing Process Engineering teams.

Your Impact

You are a high-energy Technical Program Manager who loves to work on hardware products. You are a standout colleague with a startup mentality who loves to challenge the status quo with creation and innovation. We are often developing the industry’s first ground breaking coherent optical modules. Our ideal candidate can flourish with minimal guidance and is able to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity

• Build and track NPI program schedules, budgets, and labor requirements.
• Work directly with the Hardware team to release new hardware on time and on budget
• Act as the key interface between Hardware engineering and Acacia’s other organizations
• Provide timely project status to senior management and cross functional teams
• Contribute to Hardware engineering process definition, improvements, and documentation

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors in relevant field with a minimum +8 years of hardware program/project management experience, or Master's +6 years of hardware program/project management experience, or +3 years of hardware program/project management experience, with at least 5+ years of direct HW management experience
• High-speed electrical hardware design and/or management experience is essential for the role
• Hardware design flow from concept to release experience, including hardware product design life cycle and best practices
• Project management experience for large multi-disciplinary engineering projects (Budgets, labor, schedules, etc.)
• Hardware design product life cycle experience
• Hardware engineering and ISO process documentation experience
• Experience managing groundbreaking networking hardware products and governing standards

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience delivering leading edge hardware for a networking or related communications company
• Experience presenting complex technical details to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience leading teams, making decisions, and risk planning
• Experience with conflict resolution in an engineering product development environment
• Experience working with multiple stakeholder groups

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put – we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.