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Remote hardware manager jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed hardware teams in sectors like consumer electronics, semiconductors, and industrial technology. Employers hiring remotely right now include Hidden Level, Richelieu Hardware, and Yandex. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Windows Security protects Windows from the hardware up. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer Manager to lead the engineering organization responsible for some of the foundational technologies that establish trust across Windows devices and cloud services.
Modern platform security depends on establishing trust across the full stack, from silicon and firmware through the operating system and into cloud services. Hardware Security builds the technologies that establish and protect that trust, including Microsoft Pluton, hardware-rooted platform security capabilities, and cloud-based device attestation services.
In this role, you will lead a broad engineering organization that develops security firmware and software shipping on Windows devices, advances Microsoft Pluton as an integrated security foundation for the Windows ecosystem, and builds and operates cloud services that allow devices and services to establish and prove their security state. The team partners across Windows, Azure, Microsoft Security, silicon and device partners, and industry standards organizations to advance platform security for billions of Windows customers.
This is a highly technical leadership role at the intersection of silicon, operating systems, security, and cloud services. We are looking for a leader who can set technical direction in complex and rapidly evolving areas, develop outstanding engineering leaders and teams, and turn emerging security threats and technologies into durable protections for customers.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering strategy and execution for Windows Hardware Security, spanning Microsoft Pluton, hardware and firmware security, hardware-rooted platform security capabilities, and cloud-based attestation services.
- Define and drive a cohesive chip-to-cloud security architecture that connects hardware roots of trust with Windows security capabilities and cloud services.
- Advance Microsoft Pluton as a foundation for security innovation in the Windows ecosystem, working across hardware, firmware, operating system, and service boundaries to deliver new protections for customers.
- Lead the engineering and evolution of Windows attestation services, enabling devices and services to establish identity, integrity, and trusted security state using hardware-backed security signals.
- Lead the design, development, delivery, and operation of security-critical software, firmware, and services with a focus on security, reliability, scalability, performance, quality, and operational excellence.
- Partner with silicon vendors, device manufacturers, industry standards organizations, and engineering teams across Microsoft to influence hardware security architecture and bring emerging security capabilities into the Windows ecosystem.
- Identify emerging threats and technology shifts and translate them into engineering strategy, product roadmaps, and systematic security improvements.
- Drive engineering excellence across both Windows product engineering and cloud service development, including architecture, testing, telemetry, reliability, incident response, secure development, and live-site operations.
- Create clarity across complex cross-organizational initiatives, make thoughtful engineering and business tradeoffs, and drive accountability for delivering customer outcomes.
- Build, coach, and grow a high-performing organization of engineering managers and engineers, developing technical leaders and fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Represent Microsoft and Windows Security with senior internal and external partners on critical hardware, platform security, and attestation topics.
- Leverage emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to improve engineering effectiveness, security analysis, operational efficiency, and the team's ability to respond to an evolving threat landscape.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
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Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
-
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of people management experience leading software engineering teams.
- Experience designing, building, shipping, or operating security-critical software, operating system components, embedded systems, firmware, hardware-integrated software, or large-scale cloud services.
- Experience leading complex engineering programs involving multiple teams, organizations, or external partners.
- Experience defining technical strategy and translating that strategy into engineering execution and measurable customer outcomes.
- Experience with operating system, platform, or hardware security architecture.
- Experience with hardware roots of trust, security processors, secure boot, firmware security, cryptography, device identity, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technologies, confidential computing, or remote attestation.
- Experience building and operating highly available cloud services with security-sensitive workloads and demanding reliability requirements.
- Experience partnering with silicon vendors, device manufacturers, standards bodies, or other technology ecosystem partners.
- Experience leading engineering managers and senior technical leaders in a multi-team organization.
- Experience responding to security vulnerabilities or incidents and translating individual findings into systematic platform improvements.
- Experience influencing technical strategy across organizational boundaries and communicating complex engineering and security topics to senior leaders.
- Experience developing inclusive teams and growing engineers and engineering leaders across career stages.
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Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.
Windows Security protects Windows from the hardware up. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer Manager to lead the engineering organization responsible for some of the foundational technologies that establish trust across Windows devices and cloud services.
Modern platform security depends on establishing trust across the full stack, from silicon and firmware through the operating system and into cloud services. Hardware Security builds the technologies that establish and protect that trust, including Microsoft Pluton, hardware-rooted platform security capabilities, and cloud-based device attestation services.
In this role, you will lead a broad engineering organization that develops security firmware and software shipping on Windows devices, advances Microsoft Pluton as an integrated security foundation for the Windows ecosystem, and builds and operates cloud services that allow devices and services to establish and prove their security state. The team partners across Windows, Azure, Microsoft Security, silicon and device partners, and industry standards organizations to advance platform security for billions of Windows customers.
This is a highly technical leadership role at the intersection of silicon, operating systems, security, and cloud services. We are looking for a leader who can set technical direction in complex and rapidly evolving areas, develop outstanding engineering leaders and teams, and turn emerging security threats and technologies into durable protections for customers.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering strategy and execution for Windows Hardware Security, spanning Microsoft Pluton, hardware and firmware security, hardware-rooted platform security capabilities, and cloud-based attestation services.
- Define and drive a cohesive chip-to-cloud security architecture that connects hardware roots of trust with Windows security capabilities and cloud services.
- Advance Microsoft Pluton as a foundation for security innovation in the Windows ecosystem, working across hardware, firmware, operating system, and service boundaries to deliver new protections for customers.
- Lead the engineering and evolution of Windows attestation services, enabling devices and services to establish identity, integrity, and trusted security state using hardware-backed security signals.
- Lead the design, development, delivery, and operation of security-critical software, firmware, and services with a focus on security, reliability, scalability, performance, quality, and operational excellence.
- Partner with silicon vendors, device manufacturers, industry standards organizations, and engineering teams across Microsoft to influence hardware security architecture and bring emerging security capabilities into the Windows ecosystem.
- Identify emerging threats and technology shifts and translate them into engineering strategy, product roadmaps, and systematic security improvements.
- Drive engineering excellence across both Windows product engineering and cloud service development, including architecture, testing, telemetry, reliability, incident response, secure development, and live-site operations.
- Create clarity across complex cross-organizational initiatives, make thoughtful engineering and business tradeoffs, and drive accountability for delivering customer outcomes.
- Build, coach, and grow a high-performing organization of engineering managers and engineers, developing technical leaders and fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Represent Microsoft and Windows Security with senior internal and external partners on critical hardware, platform security, and attestation topics.
- Leverage emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to improve engineering effectiveness, security analysis, operational efficiency, and the team's ability to respond to an evolving threat landscape.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
-
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
-
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of people management experience leading software engineering teams.
- Experience designing, building, shipping, or operating security-critical software, operating system components, embedded systems, firmware, hardware-integrated software, or large-scale cloud services.
- Experience leading complex engineering programs involving multiple teams, organizations, or external partners.
- Experience defining technical strategy and translating that strategy into engineering execution and measurable customer outcomes.
- Experience with operating system, platform, or hardware security architecture.
- Experience with hardware roots of trust, security processors, secure boot, firmware security, cryptography, device identity, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technologies, confidential computing, or remote attestation.
- Experience building and operating highly available cloud services with security-sensitive workloads and demanding reliability requirements.
- Experience partnering with silicon vendors, device manufacturers, standards bodies, or other technology ecosystem partners.
- Experience leading engineering managers and senior technical leaders in a multi-team organization.
- Experience responding to security vulnerabilities or incidents and translating individual findings into systematic platform improvements.
- Experience influencing technical strategy across organizational boundaries and communicating complex engineering and security topics to senior leaders.
- Experience developing inclusive teams and growing engineers and engineering leaders across career stages.
#W+DJOBS
Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Staffing & Recruiting
- Technology & Software
- Electronics & Hardware
- Construction & Real Estate
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote hardware manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience managing hardware engineering teams through full NPI or product development cycles
- Proficiency with PCB design tools, EDA software, or FPGA development environments
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional collaboration with firmware, manufacturing, and test engineering
- Experience with hardware verification, validation, and bring-up processes for complex systems
- Familiarity with industry compliance standards such as IPC, DO-254, ISO 26262, or similar frameworks
Tips for Your Remote Hardware Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote hardware manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through unrelated postings.
Show async coordination in your resume
Remote hardware teams run on written communication and structured handoffs. Highlight experience managing supplier timelines, design reviews, or cross-site builds using tools like Confluence, Jira, or shared trackers to signal you can run a distributed hardware program.
Build a hardware program portfolio
Remote employers can't walk the floor with you. A concise portfolio documenting a product you took from prototype to production, including BOM decisions, vendor coordination, and schedule management, proves you can deliver without in-person supervision.
Prepare for remote-specific interview questions
Remote hardware manager interviews often probe how you handle blockers without escalating in person, how you keep distributed engineers aligned, and how you manage vendor relationships across time zones. Prepare concrete examples that show independent judgment and clear written follow-through.
Remote Hardware Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote hardware manager job?
Remote hardware manager roles go to candidates who can demonstrate strong self-direction, clear async written communication, and the ability to coordinate distributed engineering teams without in-person oversight. Remote-first companies and larger firms with geographically spread hardware teams are your primary targets. Showing you've managed cross-functional hardware programs across time zones, used collaboration tools like Confluence or Jira, and delivered hardware milestones without daily check-ins gives you a real edge.
Which companies hire remote hardware managers?
Companies hiring remote hardware managers right now include Hidden Level, Richelieu Hardware, and Yandex, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first technology firms, distributed semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, and larger industrial tech organizations with engineering teams across multiple locations.
Can you get a remote hardware manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level hardware manager roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one with minimal hand-holding. Your best path is to target smaller remote-first hardware startups or contract roles where you can demonstrate ownership of a hardware project, strong written communication, and comfort with async workflows even if formal management experience is limited.
Do you need a degree for remote hardware manager jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers care more about demonstrated hardware program ownership, the ability to move a product from prototype to production, and clear documentation skills than a specific credential. A portfolio showing shipped hardware products, supplier coordination, and cross-functional team leadership often carries as much weight as a formal degree in electrical engineering or a related field.
Which industries hire the most remote hardware managers?
Remote hardware manager roles concentrate in Staffing & Recruiting, Technology & Software, and Electronics & Hardware, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors hire hardware managers remotely because their engineering and product teams are distributed across multiple sites, requiring someone who can coordinate vendors, timelines, and cross-functional work without being physically present.
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