Mid Level Hardware Manager Jobs
Mid level hardware manager jobs go to professionals ready to own projects end to end, guide junior engineers, and make technical decisions with real accountability. Roles run across on-site, hybrid, and remote settings in Staffing & Recruiting, Technology & Software, and Consulting & Professional Services, with employers like Ursus, Sportworks Global, and KLA hiring at this level now.
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Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world's most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies.
Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.
Purpose
The Manager, Hardware Quality is responsible for driving build quality and mission success across Divergent's products by leading a team of engineers focused on quality, reliability, validation, and risk management. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams to ensure products meet quality, performance, reliability, and program requirements. You will help translate customer needs into actionable quality and reliability plans, support program execution, and drive structured problem-solving for failures and system issues. As a people leader and technical contributor, you will reinforce a reliability-first mindset, ensure consistent execution of product quality processes, and support the scaling of reliable outcomes across Divergent's technologies and operations.
The Role
Team Leadership & Execution
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product reliability engineers, fostering strong technical execution and accountability
- Provide day-to-day guidance, prioritization, and performance management for the team
- Support hiring and onboarding engineers as the team scales
- Reinforce best practices in reliability engineering, risk management, and problem-solving
Program & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Act as the primary reliability partner to Program Management and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) at the program level
- Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure alignment between requirements, design intent, and production capability
- Support interpretation of customer and regulatory requirements and ensure they are translated into clear, verifiable product quality objectives
- Escalate risks, tradeoffs, and constraints to senior leadership as needed
Product Quality & Reliability Execution
- Own execution of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) deliverables, including FMEA, control plans, and validation activities
- Ensure product and process risks are identified, documented, and actively managed within programs
- Support development and refinement of quality control plans and validation strategies
- Track and report on reliability metrics, risks, and readiness at the program level
Risk Management & Problem Resolution
- Lead structured root cause investigations and corrective action efforts for product and process failures
- Facilitate cross-functional issue resolution and nonconformance reviews
- Drive accountability for containment, corrective actions, and verification of effectiveness
- Promote the use of structured problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D, 5 Whys, FMEA)
Process Improvement & Scaling
- Contribute to the development and improvement of reliability, risk, and quality processes
- Help standardize tools, templates, and best practices across programs
- Support implementation of scalable systems to manage increasing product complexity and production volume
Basic Qualifications
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls
- Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline
- 5+ years of experience in product reliability, quality, manufacturing, design, systems, or test/validation engineering
- 1+ years of experience leading projects, initiatives, or direct management of engineers
- Experience solving complex, cross-functional engineering problems using structured methodologies
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience directly managing engineers in a production or product development environment
- Experience executing APQP methodologies (FMEA, control plans, validation planning)
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple programs and competing priorities
- Experience with structured problem-solving and failure analysis tools (e.g., Six Sigma, 8D, DOE, Fault Tree Analysis)
- Experience supporting product launches from development through production
- Familiarity with additive manufacturing, machining, and adhesive bonding
- Familiarity with automotive and/or aerospace standards and requirements
- Experience with data analysis and reporting tools (e.g., Jira, SQL, PowerBI)
- Familiarity with NX/Teamcenter or similar CAD/design platforms
Work Environment
- Office and manufacturing floor environment
- Occasional travel to supplier sites, testing events, and company facilities as required
- Fast-paced, hands-on environment focused on scaling advanced manufacturing while ensuring reliability and risk mitigation
What We Offer Our Regular, Full-Time Employees:
- Holistic Compensation Package: Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.
- Wellness and Time Off: Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.
- Comprehensive Health and Wellness: Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.
- Investment in Growth: We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.
- Collaborative and High-Performing Environment: Join our collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, fostering innovation, and integrating people and technology to reduce our footprint.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Divergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.
EEO Poster
In order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected.
E-Verify: Right to Work
Our company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate's eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.
Eligibility to Work Poster (English) | Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish)
Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
No agencies, no solicitations, and no calls please.
Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world's most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies.
Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.
Purpose
The Manager, Hardware Quality is responsible for driving build quality and mission success across Divergent's products by leading a team of engineers focused on quality, reliability, validation, and risk management. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams to ensure products meet quality, performance, reliability, and program requirements. You will help translate customer needs into actionable quality and reliability plans, support program execution, and drive structured problem-solving for failures and system issues. As a people leader and technical contributor, you will reinforce a reliability-first mindset, ensure consistent execution of product quality processes, and support the scaling of reliable outcomes across Divergent's technologies and operations.
The Role
Team Leadership & Execution
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product reliability engineers, fostering strong technical execution and accountability
- Provide day-to-day guidance, prioritization, and performance management for the team
- Support hiring and onboarding engineers as the team scales
- Reinforce best practices in reliability engineering, risk management, and problem-solving
Program & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Act as the primary reliability partner to Program Management and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) at the program level
- Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure alignment between requirements, design intent, and production capability
- Support interpretation of customer and regulatory requirements and ensure they are translated into clear, verifiable product quality objectives
- Escalate risks, tradeoffs, and constraints to senior leadership as needed
Product Quality & Reliability Execution
- Own execution of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) deliverables, including FMEA, control plans, and validation activities
- Ensure product and process risks are identified, documented, and actively managed within programs
- Support development and refinement of quality control plans and validation strategies
- Track and report on reliability metrics, risks, and readiness at the program level
Risk Management & Problem Resolution
- Lead structured root cause investigations and corrective action efforts for product and process failures
- Facilitate cross-functional issue resolution and nonconformance reviews
- Drive accountability for containment, corrective actions, and verification of effectiveness
- Promote the use of structured problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D, 5 Whys, FMEA)
Process Improvement & Scaling
- Contribute to the development and improvement of reliability, risk, and quality processes
- Help standardize tools, templates, and best practices across programs
- Support implementation of scalable systems to manage increasing product complexity and production volume
Basic Qualifications
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls
- Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline
- 5+ years of experience in product reliability, quality, manufacturing, design, systems, or test/validation engineering
- 1+ years of experience leading projects, initiatives, or direct management of engineers
- Experience solving complex, cross-functional engineering problems using structured methodologies
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience directly managing engineers in a production or product development environment
- Experience executing APQP methodologies (FMEA, control plans, validation planning)
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple programs and competing priorities
- Experience with structured problem-solving and failure analysis tools (e.g., Six Sigma, 8D, DOE, Fault Tree Analysis)
- Experience supporting product launches from development through production
- Familiarity with additive manufacturing, machining, and adhesive bonding
- Familiarity with automotive and/or aerospace standards and requirements
- Experience with data analysis and reporting tools (e.g., Jira, SQL, PowerBI)
- Familiarity with NX/Teamcenter or similar CAD/design platforms
Work Environment
- Office and manufacturing floor environment
- Occasional travel to supplier sites, testing events, and company facilities as required
- Fast-paced, hands-on environment focused on scaling advanced manufacturing while ensuring reliability and risk mitigation
What We Offer Our Regular, Full-Time Employees:
- Holistic Compensation Package: Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.
- Wellness and Time Off: Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.
- Comprehensive Health and Wellness: Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.
- Investment in Growth: We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.
- Collaborative and High-Performing Environment: Join our collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, fostering innovation, and integrating people and technology to reduce our footprint.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Divergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.
EEO Poster
In order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected.
E-Verify: Right to Work
Our company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate's eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.
Eligibility to Work Poster (English) | Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish)
Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
No agencies, no solicitations, and no calls please.
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Mid Level Hardware Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level hardware manager job?
Position yourself around ownership, not just contribution. Highlight projects where you led hardware development from design through validation, managed cross-functional dependencies, or mentored junior engineers. Applications stand out when they show scope growth, measurable outcomes like yield improvements or cost reductions, and familiarity with hardware lifecycle processes. Tailor your resume to match the specific product domain listed in each job posting.
Which companies hire mid level hardware managers?
Companies hiring mid level hardware managers right now include Ursus, Sportworks Global, and KLA, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level comes from a mix of consumer electronics manufacturers, defense contractors, semiconductor firms, and industrial equipment companies scaling their hardware teams.
Are there remote mid level hardware manager jobs?
Yes, though hardware roles skew more on-site than software due to lab and prototype access requirements. About 27% of mid level hardware manager openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with hybrid arrangements being the most common flexible option. Fully remote roles tend to focus on program coordination rather than hands-on design work.
How do I move up to a mid level hardware manager role?
Moving from entry level into a mid level hardware manager role takes deliberate depth-building. Focus on owning a complete hardware subsystem, not just assigned tasks. Seek out opportunities to lead design reviews, manage supplier relationships, or coordinate cross-functional testing. Demonstrating measurable impact, such as reducing development cycles or catching failure modes early, signals readiness for broader ownership that mid level roles require.
Which industries hire the most mid level hardware managers?
Mid Level hardware manager roles concentrate in Staffing & Recruiting, Technology & Software, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring because they maintain large in-house hardware programs that require experienced managers to own product lines, coordinate engineering teams, and manage the full development lifecycle.