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About the Role

Arista is seeking a Senior Director of Hardware Engineering to lead the creation of industry-leading Cloud Networking Ethernet switches. This role involves scaling and growing the Sydney hardware organization, managing and mentoring a diverse team, and driving the design of high-quality products from concept to production.

Responsibilities

Scale and grow the Sydney hardware organization
Manage, mentor, and motivate a team of hardware, firmware, signal integrity, diags, and FPGA engineers
Identify, define, and implement new processes and tools to improve productivity and efficiency
Establish Sydney hardware labs to expand local development and test capabilities
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
Drive Vendor roadmaps of key components to advance Arista’s Hardware designs
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

Requirements

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics
4+ years of Management experience
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
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
Background experience with scripting and general software development is a strong plus
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.

Skills

Ethernet
SMBus
SPI
PCIe
POE
PTP
MDIO
signal integrity
power integrity
impedance
PDN’s
differential routing
insertion loss
S-parameters
TDR’s
VNA’s
scripting
software development

Location

Sydney

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
4+ years of Management experience
10+ years of relevant experience

Education Level

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics

About the Company

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments.
We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge.
Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.
At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table.
We believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.
Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance.
At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.
Arista delivers networking excellence by designing the industry’s most advanced fabrics for rack-scale and data center-scale AI, alongside the highest-performance and most reliable campus platforms.
We are pushing beyond today’s 1.6T-per-port systems toward higher-bandwidth, higher-radix, and more power-efficient architectures.
This work spans high-speed electrical design, cabled backplanes, 200G+ per-lane SerDes, liquid-cooled switching, and next-generation optics that reduce the interconnect power and thermal burden of AI infrastructure.
Our hardware strategy starts with the hardest problems our customers face—scaling bandwidth, controlling power, preserving signal integrity, and delivering uncompromising availability—and carries through first-silicon architecture, system design, validation, manufacturing, and deployment.
We work across the full stack of merchant silicon, custom FPGA capability, optics, mechanics, power, thermal design, and EOS-enabled platform integration.