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Director, Hardware Engineering

Run:ai

Run:ai

Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Ra'anana, Israel · Yokne'am Illit, Israel
Posted on Apr 9, 2025

Our Networking NVLINK group in Israel is looking for an experienced and skilled manager to lead our system/board design team. The team leads the development of GPU networking infrastructure for NVIDIA next-generation servers focusing on accelerated performance while enabling optimized end to end GPU connectivity. NVIDIA's NVLINK HW team designs innovative end-to-end connectivity solutions for GPU servers. Our products optimize data Center performance and deliver industry-leading bandwidth and scalability. Our products are focused on providing the most optimized power - performance communication solutions for industries like AI, ML, Cloud, Media and Entertainment as well as any other industry that can benefit from our Datastream acceleration.

What you'll be doing:

  • Build and lead HW design team responsible for delivering HVM high-performance systems

  • Lead Pioneering Switch System design from concept to mass production

  • Collaborate and integrate with all HW project subject areas: Board Design, Mechanics, Thermal, PCB Layout, Production, Software/Firmware, RTL and more

  • Planning the work of your team on multiple simultaneous development projects with a broader leadership team

  • Managing direct reports, goal setting, mentoring, performance appraisals, career planning and compensation recommendations

  • Collect, examine, and filter requirements from internal customers such as marketing, software and systems engineering and put together plan of records for next generation switch

  • Schedule projects, make realistic estimates of outcomes and work to make projects timely and successful for high volume manufacture.

  • Deep familiarity with the entire design flow including hands-on practice: specification definitions, electrical schematics, component selection, layout guidance, hands-on testing in lab environment, accompanying production and qualification processes, micro-architecture, verification, characterization, design for testability, cost, reliability and more.

What we need to see:

  • A Bachelors, Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or relevant related field (or equivalent experience)

  • 15+ overall years of industry experience in architecture, design, and methodology of cutting-edge board design development

  • 8+ years of technical design management experience

  • Proven experience in leading multi-disciplinary projects

  • Hands-on lab skills

  • Experience in leading Multi layer PCB design and high current power delivery design

  • Comprehensive understanding of RTL implementations (CPLD/FPGA)

  • Ability to provide insight and guidance on trade-offs between power, performance, and area appropriately to meet the requirements of the product

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to quickly build relationships and prioritize/align conflicting needs and teams

  • Significant experience managing systems from concept through production

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience in data-center switches products design for high volume manufacturing

  • Proven knowledge in high speed design (25Gb/s and above)

  • Experience in embedded systems design

  • Knowledge in advanced PCB technology

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're a creative manager, with a real passion for managing teams to deliver cutting-edge processors, we want to hear from you! Come, join our CPU Architecture team, and help build the real-time, cost-effective computing platform driving our success across multiple quickly growing fields ranging from the data center to autonomous vehicles.