Project Engineer – Hardware

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Project Engineer overseeing hardware program execution and manufacturing transfer at Sage. Driving vendor alignments, risk management, and documentation systems for successful hardware launches.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the integrated program schedule and keep it continuously true, highlighting critical path, decision points, and recovery plans
  • Lead vendor execution across CM/ODM and key partners by driving deliverables, timelines, and fast issue closure
  • Drive manufacturing transfer readiness by aligning DFM/DFT actions, build plans, work instructions, and release criteria
  • Implement and run a lightweight document control and change control system that scales, including ECR intake and ECO rollout
  • Establish and run program cadence, including build readiness reviews, weekly status, and action tracking with clear owners and dates
  • Surface and manage program risks by maintaining a living risk register and driving mitigation burn-down with accountable owners
  • Coordinate build execution by ensuring test readiness, fixture availability, provisioning flow clarity, and failure triage loops
  • Track program-level budget buckets and forecasts, flagging cost growth early and driving tradeoff decisions
  • Translate between engineering detail and leadership clarity by delivering crisp updates, escalations, and decision framing
  • Partner with Systems Engineering, Ops, and Quality to keep requirements, verification, and sustainment needs aligned across releases

Requirements:

  • 6+ years owning hardware program execution through manufacturing transfer and production ramp
  • Demonstrated experience driving CM/ODM and supplier deliverables with clear cadence and escalation paths
  • Working experience with change control and document control (ECR/ECO/ECN or equivalent) in a production environment
  • Proven ability to run integrated schedules, manage dependencies, and drive cross-functional execution without authority
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready status and escalation clarity.
  • Experience in connected devices, IoT, or safety-critical hardware environments (preferred qualification)
  • Experience standing up or scaling a change control / document control system in a startup (preferred qualification)
  • Familiarity with manufacturing test strategy, fixture development, and yield learning loops (preferred qualification)
  • Exposure to reliability planning and failure triage workflows from builds or field feedback (preferred qualification)
  • Experience mentoring others or growing into people leadership through program ownership (preferred qualification)

Benefits:

  • fully-paid health and dental insurance coverage
  • other health benefits including vision insurance
  • membership to premium primary and urgent care
  • online medical health providers
  • take as you need time off policy
  • 7 paid holidays
  • company wide winter break during the holidays
  • office lunch
  • fully stocked snack bar
  • up to 2 remote days per week