Senior Hardware Product Manager

Hudson River Trading•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Senior Hardware Product Manager to design and engineer the hardware product lines across our global trading environment. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded engineer – someone who knows finite element analysis, thermodynamics, measurement and instrumentation, manages projects, negotiates fiercely with vendors, and still geeks out over the best way to route DLC piping through a chassis. If you get a thrill from driving projects with diverse requirements to achieve an elegant hardware design, this role is for you.

Requirements

10+ years in hardware product engineering or product management, with mechanical or electrical engineering experience (PE/FE) strongly preferred.
Experience working with ODM and JDM vendors is strongly preferred.
Deep understanding of the mechanical and electrical design of a production rackmount server.
Direct experience with DLC systems is strongly preferred.
You can confidently go toe-to-toe with a vendor's engineering team during a design review.
Strong understanding of a production rack, from network and hardware through power and cooling dynamics.
You know the laws of thermodynamics and how they apply to a datacenter setting.
You get excited about CAD designs and data visualizations.
Familiarity with Open Compute Project, MGX, heat rejection and voltage rack standards.
PCIe, Redfish, OpenBMC knowledge is desirable.
Linux server experience is desirable.
You can manage BOMs, RFQs, and RFPs.
You're comfortable being the point of contact with hardware vendors.
Highly autonomous, with a "roll-up-your-sleeves" mentality.
You have a passion for engineering excellence and data-driven design.
You are a hands-on leader who can execute independently today while scaling to lead a team tomorrow.
Ability to travel, build on-the-ground vendor relationships, and navigate regional market nuances.

Responsibilities

Product Line Engineering: Gather requirements directly from trading teams, drive system designs, overhaul underperforming components and designs, and retire legacy lines. You understand board, server, and rack design, and can connect that to the datacenter. You are equally comfortable prototyping and lab-testing product lines and delivering them to production.
Strategic Sourcing & Negotiation: Manage relationships with ODM and JDM partners and hold them accountable to delivery milestones through the full lifecycle of board and server designs.
Engineering Partnership: Bridge between requirements and deliverables. You must speak the hardware layer's language (PCIe topology, air and coolant flows, voltage and signal integrity) and be able to connect that to the network, OS, and application layers.