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Director - Hardware Engineering

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc147 open roles

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Overview

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. has an immediate opening for a Director of Hardware Engineering at our Austin, Texas engineering office. In this role you will lead, develop, and scale a high-performing hardware engineering organization capable of delivering high-quality products that expand Lutron’s leadership in automated lighting and shading solutions.

This position is a leadership role with meaningful technical depth. You will be responsible for building strong teams, developing engineering talent, and creating the conditions for technical excellence, while ensuring projects are delivered with high quality, predictable execution, and strong cross-functional alignment.

You will work closely with senior engineering leadership to develop products to support the Lutron’s expanding lighting business and grow the Austin hardware engineering function, define team structure and capability needs, and support multiple product development efforts across the portfolio. The products developed by your teams will be deployed in cutting edge residential and commercial environments around the world.

In this role, you will be accountable for:

  • People leadership, coaching, and performance management
  • Successful execution of hardware engineering projects across multiple product development programs.
  • Organizational scaling, hiring, and long-term capability development
  • Champion of change and mobilization of the organization

You will create a culture where engineers do their best work, collaborate effectively across disciplines, and continuously raise the bar for design rigor and manufacturability.

Responsibilities

People Leadership & Team Development

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of hardware engineers across multiple experience levels and functional areas while at the same time being a manager of managers.
  • Set high standards and clear goals, regular feedback, career development guidance, and performance evaluations.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with leadership to recruit, onboard, and grow hardware engineering talent for Lutron with a focus on Austin Engineering Office.
  • Ensure staff has appropriate mentorship, training, and growth opportunities.

Technical Oversight and Quality

  • Partner with Sr. Directors to ensure execution aligns with established architectures, standards, and system-level decisions.
  • Uphold Lutron’s design standards and engineering practices through effective review and validation processes.

Project & Execution Leadership

  • Translate business strategy into functional plans, inform team of strategies and guide execution
  • Own delivery of hardware engineering scope across multiple projects, ensuring alignment to cost, quality, and schedule commitments.
  • Prioritize work across programs, balancing near-term execution with longer-term organizational health.
  • Ensure appropriate engineering staffing, resourcing, and risk management across active programs.
  • Escalate issues and tradeoffs effectively, providing clear options and recommendations to leadership.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work closely with business leaders, product managers, and functional leaders including software, firmware, industrial design, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and regulatory teams to ensure successful product development and product maintenance.
  • Reconcile across multiple stakeholders to drive business results
  • Collaborate with manufacturing partners and suppliers to support tooling development, qualification, and production readiness.
  • Represent hardware engineering perspectives in cross-functional and leadership discussions.
  • Demonstrate ethical behavior and is well respected across the company
  • Use your excellent communication skills to translate technical details for diverse audiences.

Process & Organizational Improvement

  • Identify opportunities to improve hardware engineering processes, tools, lab capabilities, and workflows.
  • Support cost reduction, reliability improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives across products.
  • Help standardize best practices while allowing flexibility for innovation and learning.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in a science, engineering, or mathematics field.
  • Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 for all degrees earned.
  • 20+ years of engineering experience in product development.
  • 10+ years of experience managing and developing 50+ engineers (direct and indirect), including senior engineers.
  • Proven ability to lead teams through complex product development efforts with technical depth.
  • You are authorized to work in the U.S. and will not require Lutron to sponsor you for any work visa, such as an H-1B, either immediately or at any time in the future. Lutron does not offer work visa sponsorship for this position.

Preferred

  • Curiosity and solution-focused mindset.
  • Attention to details with ability to prioritize.
  • First principles thinker.
  • Experience with high-volume consumer or commercial products.
  • Experience scaling or building engineering teams.
  • Exposure to multi‑site or distributed engineering organizations.
  • Background in regulated or high‑reliability product environments.

Lutron Electronics’ position as the worldwide leader in innovative lighting control and shading solutions has enabled consistent, annual growth. Our company has cultivated a reputation of unsurpassed quality, a broad range of technologies and product offerings, and a strong commitment to servicing our worldwide customers. This has allowed the company to invest in developing new technologies and services, expand our technical capabilities and global presence, and to find and retain the best talent. Build your career with Lutron where you will enjoy competitive compensation and benefits while exploring many options for continued growth and education. Make a difference every day in our dynamic, people-centric, technology-driven organization. For more information, view our website at www.lutron.com.

Lutron Electronics is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action – Employer. We welcome qualified, motivated applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics

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