Lab Manager - Hardware Engineering
NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s Silicon Co-Design Group is the team that gets every GPU, SoC, and CPU silicon program from first power-on to high-volume production. We are hiring a Lab Manager to own hardware engineering lab operations across our Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune Design Center.Your labs are where silicon meets reality — where every bring-up, validation experiment, and rework cycle happens, and where a day lost hits the program directly. You own the section: multiple labs, varied product classes, and a team of rework, reflow, and logistics technicians delivering daily for engineering. Your decisions show up in lab uptime, bring-up readiness, capital plan accuracy, and audit outcomes on safety and physical IP. You are the leader the program turns to when a new product class needs a lab spun up fast, when an EHS or security gap surfaces, or when capacity for the next roadmap year hasn’t been planned.
What You Will Be Doing
- 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.
- Role may involve travel across our Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune Design Centers
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience), with 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, with a 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 — with familiarity in HW bring-ups, computer systems, and debugging.
- Experience working with multi-functional teams — SW, validation, ASIC, and other hardware/software functions — with excellent communication abilities across sites.
- 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.