Sr Director, Hardware Engineering Sydney

Who Youll Work With 

As an Arista Hardware Engineering Senior Director you will lead multiple cross-functional teams in the design and verification of an industry-leading portfolio of Networking Ethernet switches.

What Youll Do

We are looking for an experienced self-motivated and team-oriented Hardware Engineering Senior Director to drive the creation of industry-leading Cloud Networking Ethernet switches. Arista takes pride in designing and manufacturing the highest-density highest-bandwidth products on the market.

• Scale and grow our Sydney hardware organization

• Manage mentor and motivate a team of hardware firmware signal integrity diags and FPGA engineers with a diverse range of experience levels from new college grads to experienced industry veterans.

• Identify define and implement new processes and tools that help improve productivity and efficiency within the Hardware team

• Establish Sydney hardware labs to expand local development and test capabilities including site requirements site reviews equipment and power planning and site negotiations.

• Collaborate with SW and Central Engineering Directors to expand local teams outside of Hardware.

• Provide technical guidance and direction to hardware engineers to resolve complex Hardware bring-up and cross-functional problems

• Work with product management teams to translate high-level product direction into future system designs with detailed executable steps for cross-functional teams.

• Drive Vendor roadmaps of key components (ASICs connectors PCB vendors etc.) to advance Aristas Hardware designs as well as align with internal product roadmaps

• Communicate project status and changes to mitigate unexpected issues.

• Participate in schematic and board design reviews

• Develop and communicate priorities across a portfolio of projects.

• Drive the design of high-quality products with high first-pass yields at manufacturing.

• Ensure the prototype manufacturing infrastructure and capacity meet product portfolio needs.

• Act as the initial point of contact for customer escalations and supervise resolution 

• Engage with customers on product definition and critical escalations as required 

Qualifications :

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering or Physics 

• 4 years of Management experience and 10 years of relevant experience in networking or systems hardware design particularly in the Enterprise market

• Proven experience leading hardware engineering teams across multiple simultaneous projects. Prior technical management experience is a must

• Proficient with high layer count printed circuit boards and high-speed design with background experience or knowledge of key protocols such as: Ethernet SMBus SPI PCIe POE PTP MDIO

• Expertise in Designing For Manufacturability (DFM) and collaborating with Contract Manufacturers (CM) 

• Demonstrated success in taking products from concept through to production.

• Strong communication skills and experience in guiding direct reports working with other managers or other teams and interfacing with executive leadership

• Ability to translate high-level product direction into actionable steps.

• Effective project management skills including tracking execution and implementing corrective actions.

• Experience with embedded x86/ARM system design FPGA design gigabit signaling high-speed buses and regulatory compliance.

• Skilled in technical documentation schematic design CAD collaboration and software engineering collaboration.

• Familiarity with signal integrity and power integrity concepts and tools such as: impedance PDNs differential routing insertion loss S-parameters TDRs VNAs

• Background experience with scripting and general software development is a strong plus
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Additional Information :

Australian Work Rights
Only candidates with Australian Citizenship Australian Permanent Residency or otherwise a demonstrable legal entitlement to work in Australia for the duration of employment will be considered for roles in Australia.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time