Senior Director, Hardware Engineering - Sydney

About the role

Arista Networks, a leader in data-driven client-to-cloud networking for data centers, campuses and routing environments, is hiring a Senior Director of Hardware Engineering in Sydney. You will lead multiple cross-functional teams in the design and verification of a portfolio of high-density, high-bandwidth Ethernet switches, and scale and grow the Sydney hardware organization.

Key responsibilities

• Scale and grow the Sydney hardware organization, and manage, mentor and motivate hardware, firmware, signal integrity, diagnostics and FPGA engineers.
• Identify, define and implement new processes and tools to improve productivity and efficiency.
• Establish Sydney hardware labs, including site requirements, reviews, equipment and power planning and site negotiations.
• Collaborate with Software and Central Engineering Directors to expand local teams outside of Hardware.
• Provide technical guidance on complex hardware bring-up and cross-functional problems, and guide product management teams in turning product direction into detailed system designs.
• Drive vendor roadmaps for ASICs, connectors, PCB vendors and others, and develop project priorities across a portfolio.
• Ensure high first-pass yields, prototype manufacturing capacity and infrastructure, and act as the first point of contact for customer escalations.

Required profile

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Physics.
• 4+ years of management experience and 10+ years in networking or systems hardware design, especially in the enterprise market.
• Proven experience leading hardware engineering teams across multiple simultaneous projects; prior technical management is a must.
• Demonstrated success taking products from concept to production.
• Strong communication, project management and stakeholder skills, and ability to interface with executive leadership.
• Australian citizenship, permanent residency or other legal right to work in Australia.

Required skills

• High-layer-count PCBs and high-speed design; Ethernet, SMBus, SPI, PCIe, POE, PTP, MDIO.
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and work with contract manufacturers.
• Embedded x86/ARM, FPGA, gigabit+ signaling, high-speed buses and regulatory compliance.
• Signal integrity and power integrity (impedance, PDN, differential routing, S-parameters, TDR, VNA).
• Schematic design, CAD collaboration and technical documentation; scripting and software development is a strong plus.