Resident Engineer Jobs in Michigan
Resident Engineer jobs in Michigan are in steady demand, concentrated in transportation infrastructure, automotive manufacturing, and public works, with openings at every level from newly licensed engineers through senior project leads. Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing anchor the bulk of hiring, where established employers like MDOT, HNTB, and AECOM maintain lasting project pipelines across the state. The most sought-after specializations in Michigan include highway and bridge design, construction inspection, and civil systems for large-scale transit and utility projects. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
As a Network Operations Resident Engineer, you will provide proactive and reactive technical support services to ensure the stability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of a large-scale enterprise networking environment. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor, supporting day-to-day network operations, technology transformation initiatives, lifecycle management activities, and strategic projects while maintaining a strong focus on customer satisfaction and operational excellence.
The Resident Engineer will work closely with customer stakeholders, HPE Networking teams, technical support organizations, and engineering resources to deliver operational excellence, minimize operational risk, and support critical business objectives.
This role requires a highly motivated engineer with strong experience supporting enterprise networks, WAN and SD-WAN environments, security platforms, wireless technologies, network migrations, and customer-facing operational engagements.
Location and Travel Requirements
- Preferred location: Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Candidates located in or within reasonable commuting distance of Grand Rapids are preferred; however, this is not a mandatory location requirement.
- The position may be performed remotely, with the ability to travel to the customer location in Grand Rapids, Michigan, approximately 25% of the time, based on customer and project requirements.
- Relocation is not required for candidates located outside the Grand Rapids area.
- Travel may be required to support customer activities, project milestones, production changes, and other onsite engagements.
- Flexibility to support maintenance windows and production activities outside standard business hours as required.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a technical advisor to the customer, providing subject matter expertise across Mist WAN Assurance, Session Smart Router (SSR), SD-WAN, Juniper SRX, and Mist Wireless technologies.
- Designs, deploys, configures, operates, and troubleshoots Mist-managed WAN Edge and SSR-based SD-WAN solutions.
- Provides technical expertise for WAN Edge configuration, routing, application policies, traffic steering, path selection, high availability, and site connectivity.
- Configures, operates, and troubleshoots Juniper SRX platforms, including routing, security policies, security zones, NAT, VPN/IPsec connectivity, and high-availability deployments.
- Supports Mist Wireless environments, including wireless configuration, operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Uses Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Service Level Expectations (SLEs), Mist insights, events, alerts, and telemetry to identify and troubleshoot network and end-user connectivity and performance issues.
- Troubleshoots complex issues across WAN, SD-WAN, SRX, routing, security policies, VPN/IPsec, wireless connectivity, authentication, roaming, RF, and application connectivity.
- Applies strong networking fundamentals to troubleshoot BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN connectivity, routing policies, VLANs, DHCP, DNS, NAT, and VPN/IPsec.
- Analyzes network behavior and performance to identify root causes and recommend technical and operational improvements.
- Supports production changes, maintenance activities, software upgrades, incident resolution, and technical escalations.
- Collaborates with customer engineering and operations teams, HPE support organizations, and engineering teams to resolve complex technical issues.
- Develops and maintains technical documentation, implementation procedures, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guidance.
- Provides knowledge transfer, technical guidance, and mentoring to customer technical teams.
- Maintains strong ownership of technical issues and communicates status, risks, findings, and recommendations effectively to customer stakeholders.
- Works as an integrated member of the customer's technical environment, remotely and onsite as required, with approximately 25% travel to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Provides flexibility to support planned production changes and maintenance activities outside normal business hours when required.
Mist WAN Assurance currently supports SSR WAN Edge deployments, including traffic steering, application policies, routing policies, HA designs, and hub-and-spoke and SSR mesh topologies.
Education and Experience Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 6-10 years of experience in enterprise networking, network engineering, consulting, or related technical roles.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience supporting complex enterprise network environments.
- Previous experience in a customer-facing engineering, consulting, professional services, or Resident Engineer role is preferred.
Knowledge and Skills
- Advanced hands-on knowledge of Mist WAN Assurance and WAN Edge technologies.
- Strong practical experience with Session Smart Router (SSR), including deployment, configuration, traffic flows, routing, high availability, multiple WAN paths, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Strong practical experience with Juniper SRX platforms, including configuration, routing, security policies, security zones, NAT, VPN/IPsec, high availability, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of SD-WAN concepts and architectures, including WAN underlay/overlay, application policies, application-aware traffic steering, path selection, resiliency, high availability, and site-to-site connectivity.
- Strong hands-on experience with Mist Wireless, including WLAN configuration and operations, wireless client connectivity, authentication, roaming, RF troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Experience using Marvis Virtual Network Assistant and Mist AI-driven operational capabilities to investigate and resolve network and user-experience issues.
- Experience working with Mist Service Level Expectations (SLEs), insights, events, alerts, and telemetry.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise routing, networking, and security technologies, including BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, VLANs, routing policies, DHCP, DNS, NAT, and VPN/IPsec technologies.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-domain network issues and isolate problems across WAN, SD-WAN, SRX, routing, security, VPN/IPsec, wireless, client connectivity, and application paths.
- Knowledge of Mist Wired Assurance and Juniper EX switching is desirable, complementing the required expertise across Mist, SSR, and SRX technologies.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to independently lead complex technical investigations.
- Strong operational discipline in production environments, including change planning, validation, troubleshooting, escalation, and documentation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts, issues, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in a customer-facing environment while collaborating effectively with customer teams, support organizations, and engineering resources.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, knowledge transfer, and mentoring to other engineers and customer technical teams.
- Relevant HPE Juniper Networking / Mist certifications are desirable.
Accessibility
HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.
Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
Let's Stay Connected:
Follow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE.
Job:
EngineeringJob Level:
TCP_04
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 109,000 - 251,000 in Michigan
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."
Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html
HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.
HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.
Recruitment Fraud Alert
We have become aware of an increase in fraudulent recruitment activities in which individuals impersonate our company or authorized recruitment agencies to offer fake employment opportunities. These scams may occur through false websites, emails, social media, or chat-based applications and often aim to obtain personal information or money. Please note that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), its direct and indirect subsidiaries and affiliated companies, and its authorized recruitment agencies/vendors will never charge a candidate a registration fee, hiring fee, or any other fee in connection with its recruitment and hiring process. We also never request personal information such as back account details, Social Security numbers, or national IDs via social media or chat applications.
All legitimate job opportunities will come through official company channels, and candidates are responsible for verifying the credentials of any third party claiming to represent the company. Any reliance on fraudulent communication is at the individual’s own risk, and HPE disclaims legal liability for any resulting damages. If you suspect recruitment fraud, do not share personal information or make any payments and report the incident to your local authorities immediately.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
As a Network Operations Resident Engineer, you will provide proactive and reactive technical support services to ensure the stability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of a large-scale enterprise networking environment. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor, supporting day-to-day network operations, technology transformation initiatives, lifecycle management activities, and strategic projects while maintaining a strong focus on customer satisfaction and operational excellence.
The Resident Engineer will work closely with customer stakeholders, HPE Networking teams, technical support organizations, and engineering resources to deliver operational excellence, minimize operational risk, and support critical business objectives.
This role requires a highly motivated engineer with strong experience supporting enterprise networks, WAN and SD-WAN environments, security platforms, wireless technologies, network migrations, and customer-facing operational engagements.
Location and Travel Requirements
- Preferred location: Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Candidates located in or within reasonable commuting distance of Grand Rapids are preferred; however, this is not a mandatory location requirement.
- The position may be performed remotely, with the ability to travel to the customer location in Grand Rapids, Michigan, approximately 25% of the time, based on customer and project requirements.
- Relocation is not required for candidates located outside the Grand Rapids area.
- Travel may be required to support customer activities, project milestones, production changes, and other onsite engagements.
- Flexibility to support maintenance windows and production activities outside standard business hours as required.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a technical advisor to the customer, providing subject matter expertise across Mist WAN Assurance, Session Smart Router (SSR), SD-WAN, Juniper SRX, and Mist Wireless technologies.
- Designs, deploys, configures, operates, and troubleshoots Mist-managed WAN Edge and SSR-based SD-WAN solutions.
- Provides technical expertise for WAN Edge configuration, routing, application policies, traffic steering, path selection, high availability, and site connectivity.
- Configures, operates, and troubleshoots Juniper SRX platforms, including routing, security policies, security zones, NAT, VPN/IPsec connectivity, and high-availability deployments.
- Supports Mist Wireless environments, including wireless configuration, operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Uses Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Service Level Expectations (SLEs), Mist insights, events, alerts, and telemetry to identify and troubleshoot network and end-user connectivity and performance issues.
- Troubleshoots complex issues across WAN, SD-WAN, SRX, routing, security policies, VPN/IPsec, wireless connectivity, authentication, roaming, RF, and application connectivity.
- Applies strong networking fundamentals to troubleshoot BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN connectivity, routing policies, VLANs, DHCP, DNS, NAT, and VPN/IPsec.
- Analyzes network behavior and performance to identify root causes and recommend technical and operational improvements.
- Supports production changes, maintenance activities, software upgrades, incident resolution, and technical escalations.
- Collaborates with customer engineering and operations teams, HPE support organizations, and engineering teams to resolve complex technical issues.
- Develops and maintains technical documentation, implementation procedures, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guidance.
- Provides knowledge transfer, technical guidance, and mentoring to customer technical teams.
- Maintains strong ownership of technical issues and communicates status, risks, findings, and recommendations effectively to customer stakeholders.
- Works as an integrated member of the customer's technical environment, remotely and onsite as required, with approximately 25% travel to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Provides flexibility to support planned production changes and maintenance activities outside normal business hours when required.
Mist WAN Assurance currently supports SSR WAN Edge deployments, including traffic steering, application policies, routing policies, HA designs, and hub-and-spoke and SSR mesh topologies.
Education and Experience Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 6-10 years of experience in enterprise networking, network engineering, consulting, or related technical roles.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience supporting complex enterprise network environments.
- Previous experience in a customer-facing engineering, consulting, professional services, or Resident Engineer role is preferred.
Knowledge and Skills
- Advanced hands-on knowledge of Mist WAN Assurance and WAN Edge technologies.
- Strong practical experience with Session Smart Router (SSR), including deployment, configuration, traffic flows, routing, high availability, multiple WAN paths, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Strong practical experience with Juniper SRX platforms, including configuration, routing, security policies, security zones, NAT, VPN/IPsec, high availability, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of SD-WAN concepts and architectures, including WAN underlay/overlay, application policies, application-aware traffic steering, path selection, resiliency, high availability, and site-to-site connectivity.
- Strong hands-on experience with Mist Wireless, including WLAN configuration and operations, wireless client connectivity, authentication, roaming, RF troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Experience using Marvis Virtual Network Assistant and Mist AI-driven operational capabilities to investigate and resolve network and user-experience issues.
- Experience working with Mist Service Level Expectations (SLEs), insights, events, alerts, and telemetry.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise routing, networking, and security technologies, including BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, VLANs, routing policies, DHCP, DNS, NAT, and VPN/IPsec technologies.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-domain network issues and isolate problems across WAN, SD-WAN, SRX, routing, security, VPN/IPsec, wireless, client connectivity, and application paths.
- Knowledge of Mist Wired Assurance and Juniper EX switching is desirable, complementing the required expertise across Mist, SSR, and SRX technologies.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to independently lead complex technical investigations.
- Strong operational discipline in production environments, including change planning, validation, troubleshooting, escalation, and documentation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts, issues, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in a customer-facing environment while collaborating effectively with customer teams, support organizations, and engineering resources.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, knowledge transfer, and mentoring to other engineers and customer technical teams.
- Relevant HPE Juniper Networking / Mist certifications are desirable.
Accessibility
HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.
Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
Let's Stay Connected:
Follow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE.
Job:
EngineeringJob Level:
TCP_04
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 109,000 - 251,000 in Michigan
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."
Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html
HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.
HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.
Recruitment Fraud Alert
We have become aware of an increase in fraudulent recruitment activities in which individuals impersonate our company or authorized recruitment agencies to offer fake employment opportunities. These scams may occur through false websites, emails, social media, or chat-based applications and often aim to obtain personal information or money. Please note that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), its direct and indirect subsidiaries and affiliated companies, and its authorized recruitment agencies/vendors will never charge a candidate a registration fee, hiring fee, or any other fee in connection with its recruitment and hiring process. We also never request personal information such as back account details, Social Security numbers, or national IDs via social media or chat applications.
All legitimate job opportunities will come through official company channels, and candidates are responsible for verifying the credentials of any third party claiming to represent the company. Any reliance on fraudulent communication is at the individual’s own risk, and HPE disclaims legal liability for any resulting damages. If you suspect recruitment fraud, do not share personal information or make any payments and report the incident to your local authorities immediately.
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What Michigan Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in resident engineer jobs across Michigan.
- Active Michigan Professional Engineer license or Engineer-in-Training registration required
- Bachelor's degree in civil, structural, or transportation engineering from an accredited program
- Experience with MDOT standards, specifications, and project documentation procedures
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, MicroStation, or comparable civil design and drafting software
- Ability to conduct field inspections and coordinate directly with contractors on active job sites
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for reporting to project owners and stakeholders
Resident Engineer Jobs in Michigan: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a resident engineer in Michigan?
To become a resident engineer in Michigan, you need a bachelor's degree in civil or a closely related engineering discipline, followed by passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to earn Engineer-in-Training status through the Michigan Board of Professional Engineers. After gaining the required supervised work experience, you sit for the Principles and Practice of Engineering exam to obtain full Professional Engineer licensure. Most Michigan transportation and infrastructure employers require or strongly prefer this PE credential before placing engineers in a resident role.
Which companies hire resident engineers in Michigan?
Employers hiring resident engineers in Michigan right now include Forvia, Bose, and Bosch, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Michigan's strong transportation infrastructure program and ongoing MDOT capital projects mean that both large engineering consultancies and state agency contractors maintain consistent resident engineer staffing across the state.
Which Michigan cities have the most resident engineer jobs?
Auburn Hills, Troy, and Canton have the most resident engineer openings in Michigan. Detroit leads because of its concentration of automotive infrastructure, freeway reconstruction, and major engineering firms, while Grand Rapids and Lansing benefit from active MDOT district offices, municipal public works programs, and regional infrastructure investment that keeps resident engineer demand steady across western and central Michigan.
Are there remote resident engineer jobs in Michigan?
Yes, but they're rare. About 75% of resident engineer openings tied to Michigan are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how fundamentally site-based the role is. The portions most suited to remote work are design review, report writing, and project documentation, while construction inspection, field verification, and contractor coordination nearly always require a physical presence on site.
How can I get hired as a resident engineer in Michigan with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is securing an Engineer-in-Training position through MDOT's project delivery divisions or a Michigan-based engineering consultancy that offers structured mentorship for recent graduates. Firms like HNTB and AECOM regularly bring on associate engineers or field inspection technicians as stepping stones into resident engineer roles. A completed PE exam preparation record, internship experience on Michigan transportation projects, and MDOT Inspector certification all give candidates a meaningful edge in a competitive applicant pool.
Where can I find and apply to resident engineer jobs in Michigan?
You can find and apply to resident engineer jobs in Michigan on Migrate Mate, which lists current Michigan openings across transportation, infrastructure, and construction sectors. Find the roles that match your experience and location, then apply directly to the employers posting them.
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