Base Power
Hardware Technical Program Manager
Austin, TX · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- Must have taken a physical product from prototype to volume production at thousands of units or more; no years specified.
About the job
Own a new large-scale hardware program from first prototype through validation, industrialization, ramp, and volume production.
What you'll do
- Build and manage the program schedule, critical path, reviews, and decisions.
- Drive design maturity, build readiness, suppliers, contract manufacturers, cost, quality, tooling, and delivery.
- Lead production-line bring-up, throughput, yield, and handoff to field installation teams.
What they ask for
- Personally carried a physical product from prototype to volume production at thousands of units or more.
- Able to read schematics and mechanical drawings and credibly assess engineering trade-offs.
- Directly owned manufacturing and supply-chain elements, including cost, tooling, quality, and capacity.
- Working knowledge of hardware testing campaigns for performance and reliability.
Nice to have
- Engineering background; high-volume consumer electronics, automotive, EV, or aerospace new product introduction.
- Power electronics, battery systems, grid hardware, data center/server/networking hardware, or launching a production line or supplier from zero.
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