Lab Manager - Hardware Engineering
NVIDIA
India, BengaluruPosted 4 months ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 8+ years of experience required
- Multi-site lab management across Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune
- Hybrid role (#LI-Hybrid)
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
Role overview
NVIDIA’s Silicon Co-Design Group is responsible for taking every GPU, SoC, and CPU silicon program from first power-on to high-volume production. The Lab Manager will own hardware engineering lab operations across Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune Design Centers, ensuring lab uptime, bring-up readiness, capital plan accuracy, and compliance with safety and physical IP standards. This role involves leading a team of technicians, forecasting long-term lab needs, and collaborating with global lab managers to standardize operations. The position may require travel across the mentioned Design Centers.
Responsibilities
- Own and Run multiple labs across varied product classes — silicon bring-up, validation, and engineering experiments
- Lead rework, reflow, and logistics technicians (including outsourced workers); develop them to self-manage opex procurement, planning, and day-to-day execution
- Plan ahead of the roadmap. Forecast long-term lab needs — space, power, cooling, thermal, reflow capability, equipment — and own the capital and expense plan that supports it
- Drive growth, reconfiguration, and ramp-down as programs evolve
- Engage Bring-up early. Partner with Bring-up managers to scope incoming silicon programs — requirements, procurement, budget, staffing — so infrastructure and personnel land ahead of priority milestones, on cost
- Hold the safety and security bar. Drive lab EHS compliance and security control. Be the recognized safety champion and physical IP asset expert — set guidelines, run reviews, operate with audit-ready discipline
- Run equipment cradle-to-grave. Own capital and expense planning, purchasing, warranty, calibration, and inventory — shipment, import, EC components, bonding — with a clear, auditable process across all labs
- Standardize across sites. Coordinate with global lab managers to learn and propagate best practices and standardize lab operations where it adds leverage
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Overall 8+ years of experience in silicon/HW lab setup, management, and maintenance
- At least 3+ years managing a technical lab environment and leading teams across sites
- Track record of owning a multi-lab section — including capital and expense equipment planning, vendor and outsourced-worker management, and inventory/logistics tracking
- Hands-on experience operating lab equipment (oscilloscope, DAQ, and other common equipment) and consumer hardware assembly/teardown, solder/rework
- Familiarity in HW bring-ups, computer systems, and debugging
- Experience working with multi-functional teams — SW, validation, ASIC, and other hardware/software functions
- Excellent communication abilities across sites
Nice to have
- Experience with CPU/SOC chip bring-up and validation process
- Multi-site or global lab coordination experience — shared standards, vendor frameworks, or capacity planning across regions
- Comfortable using AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, or equivalent) to compress reporting, analysis, and operational workflows — with judgment about where AI helps and where it doesn’t
Additional details
- Role may involve travel across our Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune Design Centers
- #LI-Hybrid