Job Description

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 recent 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

📌 Sr Director, Hardware Engineering - Sydney
🏢 Arista Networks
📍 Sydney