Sr Director, Hardware Engineering - Sydney

Who You'll 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 You’ll 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 Arista’s 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

• 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, PDN’s, differential routing, insertion loss, S-parameters, TDR’s, VNA’s

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