PWI Firmware Engineering Manager - Product Owner
Description -
HP PageWide Industrial (PWI) develops high-performance digital printing systems used in demanding production environments around the world. Our firmware sits at the intersection of electronics, writing systems, printheads, sensors, compute, press software, industrial controls, and the physical operation of the press.
As the Firmware Engineering Manager and Product Owner , you will lead the engineering team responsible for developing, integrating, releasing, and sustaining the embedded firmware that brings HP PageWide Industrial presses to life.
This is both a people-leadership and product-ownership role . You will develop a highly capable firmware team while establishing priorities and translating customer, product, hardware, quality, and lifecycle needs into an executable firmware roadmap and backlog. You will partner across R&D, Product Management, Customer Assurance, Operations, Writing Systems, Electrical Engineering, System Test, and other software teams to deliver reliable firmware for the installed fleet and HP's next generation of industrial printing platforms.
The existing role encompasses firmware delivery across PWI programs, new feature requests from multiple engineering disciplines, new print bars and presses, quality processes, team development, build and repository infrastructure, and support of software and release processes.
Responsibilities
Firmware Engineering Leadership
Lead, coach, and develop a team of firmware engineers working on complex industrial printing systems.
Build a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, continuous learning, collaboration, and customer focus.
Develop technical leadership and succession within the team while strengthening critical domain knowledge.
Establish clear priorities and enable engineers to make effective technical decisions close to the work.
Improve development practices, code quality, automation, continuous integration, and engineering efficiency.
Product Ownership and Roadmap
Own and communicate the Firmware roadmap and prioritized backlog balancing requirements across PWI product, customer, technology, quality, and lifecycle priorities.
Translate requirements from product programs, Writing Systems, Electrical Engineering, Software, Customer Assurance, Operations, and customers into clear firmware priorities.
Represent Firmware in planning, commit, dependency, and release-readiness activities.
Product Platform Delivery
Lead firmware development and integration supporting current PageWide presses and future hardware platforms.
Partner closely with Electrical Engineering, Writing Systems, Press Software, Industrial Controls, Compute, DFE, System Test, and program teams on hardware/software integration.
Ensure Firmware is ready to support new electronics, printheads, sensors, servers, operating systems, and press architectures.
Maintain appropriate engineering attention on both next-generation development and long-lived customer platforms.
Quality, Test Automation and Customer Support
Drive firmware quality throughout the lifecycle, from design, architecture and development through automated validation, system qualification, field deployment, and sustaining support.
Strengthen developer-owned automated testing and continuous integration.
Use field evidence and customer operating patterns to guide engineering priorities and improve diagnostic capability.
Enable rapid response to critical customer-impacting issues while protecting long-term product quality and maintainability.
Education & Experience Required
Four-year or graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
Typically has 7-10 years of job-related experience or 5-7 years of management experience, preferably in firmware development, or a related field.
Significant experience developing and delivering embedded…