Technical Program Manager III, HPC & AI Systems

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Chippewa Falls, MN

8d • $92,600 - $213,500 • Onsite

About The Position

The HPC Integrated Systems Test team validates complex HPE HPC & AI solutions before release, helping ensure customers receive reliable, high-quality systems for demanding environments. The team works across high-performance server platforms, networking, storage, software, firmware, operating systems, and management interfaces used in advanced HPC and AI solutions. This Technical Program Manager III role is for an experienced program leader who can lead cross-functional execution for complex HPC & AI systems programs. The role drives planning, scheduling, dependency management, risk mitigation, stakeholder alignment, and release-readiness coordination across rack-scale, accelerator, interconnect, memory, power, thermal, and large-scale systems with supercomputing complexity. The Program Manager partners with firmware, hardware, software, IST, product, vendor, and global test teams to align requirements, execution plans, issues, and key decisions with program milestones. This role supports HPE’s work on leading-edge AI hardware and advanced HPC technologies that enable the next generation of AI development and applications. The Technical Program Manager III plays a key role in leading complex integrated systems programs before release, helping ensure program milestones, risks, dependencies, and release-readiness decisions are clearly managed across cross-functional teams. By driving alignment across engineering, program, product, vendor, manufacturing, and global test teams, this role contributes to improved execution efficiency, stronger release readiness, and the quality and success of HPE’s HPC & AI product portfolio.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen
• Program planning and execution experience in complex engineering environments, preferably within HPC, AI, systems, or platform-based product development.
• Strong risk, dependency, issue, and escalation management skills across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to translate requirements, feature changes, schedules, risks, and dependencies into clear program plans that support validation coverage and release readiness.
• Experience creating and managing program schedules, budgets, resource plans, and milestone tracking.
• Familiarity with project planning tools and software packages used to manage schedules, deliverables, risks, and program outcomes.
• Cross-functional leadership skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority and drive alignment across matrixed teams.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to communicate program status, risks, dependencies, issues, and recommendations to technical teams and leadership.
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills in fast-moving product development environments.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a global, culturally diverse engineering and test organization.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Program Management, or an equivalent technical field; or equivalent experience.
• Typically 6+ years of program or project management experience, including experience leading cross-functional programs in complex engineering environments; experience in HPC, systems, or platform-based product development is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end program execution, including planning, scheduling, milestone tracking, and deliverable management across cross-functional teams.
• Drives alignment across firmware, hardware, software, IST, product, vendor, manufacturing, and external partner teams to meet program milestones.
• Manages risks, dependencies, and issues, ensuring timely escalation, mitigation planning, and follow-through.
• Coordinates resource planning and prioritization to align validation coverage, lab capacity, and execution activities with program objectives.
• Communicates program status, risks, dependencies, key decisions, and release-readiness updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensures programs are delivered within scope, cost, schedule, and quality commitments.
• Partners with engineering and product teams to define requirements, execution plans, validation priorities, and release-readiness criteria.
• Identifies and drives process improvements that improve execution efficiency, predictability, and cross-functional communication.
• Mentors less-experienced staff members on program execution practices and contributes to overall team capability.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have
• Unconditional Inclusion

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior