Senior Hardware Manager

CA Pay Range (Annual):$161,000.00 - $299,000.00

At Infinera, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. Your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for equity grants, discretionary bonuses, or commission payments. The amount of these incentives is based on the terms of the Company’s incentive plans, the Company’s financial performance, and/or individual employee job performance.

Infinera also offers paid leave, medical,

dental, and vision coverage, 401(k),

life, and disability insurance to eligible employees.

Senior Hardware Manager

Location: San Jose, CA

Join Nokia’s Hardware team and be responsible for developing and designing high-speed boards. You’ll manage and lead Electrical and Mechanical/thermal engineers to deliver complex high-speed telecom products. Your projects will include developing new products, researching new technologies, sustaining engineering on existing products, and engineering related to other company project activities.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

- Manage the daily activities of a team of talented Board designers, mechanical, and thermal engineers.

- Design, test, validate, and release Chassis and Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) containing digital and mixed-signal circuits for deployment into the telecommunications market. Duties may also include existing product engineering support and documentation.

- As a hands-on Hardware leader, provide guidance to board designers designing high-speed boards. You’ll be responsible for PCBA design, including schematics capture, layout, and full EDVT.

- As a hands-on Thermal and Mechanical engineering leader, you’ll design high-speed line cards and telecom Chassis.

- Work from product concept to production with minimal supervision.

- Contribute to the definition of product features considering mechanical, electrical, thermal tradeoffs, customer needs, and company goals.

- Have a good understanding of thermal solutions, including complex heatsink design, 2D/3D vapor chambers, TPCM materials, etc.

- Follow through and energetically support the introduction of new designs to production.

- Drive designs from conception through manufacturing production, including architecture requirements, functional specifications, design, prototypes, hardware bring-up, and verification.

- Work with cross-functional teams (SW, FW, SDVT, Diag, MFG, Optical, Architecture).

- Support the product through pre- and post-production releases.

- Work with ODM vendors to review design schematics and EDVT reports and provide guidance as needed.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

BSME or MSME preferred with over 10 years of experience as a technical leader managing a hardware team.

Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, and setting development goals for the team.

Experience with ARM-based processors, FPGAs, high-speed Ethernet Serdes, and power supplies is essential.

Experience with tolerance analyses, shock and vibration testing, and fiber management is also required.

A good understanding of Ethernet (CAUI4, 200GAUI-4, 400GAUI-8, FlexE, 800G) and OTN (OTU4) Standards is a plus.

Experience with high-speed SerDes and applicable layout constraints (26G, 56G) is desirable.

Knowledge of PCB fabrication, fab & assembly design rules, Via Back drilling, PCB sequential lamination process, and product integration with mechanical components is required.

Experience in thermal design of high-powered, densely packed circuit packs is necessary, and the ability to provide cooling solutions for high-power ASICs is essential.

Good knowledge of tools such as Cadence, CREO, and FloTherm is required.

Familiarity with NEBS, ETSI, ANSI, and acoustic requirements is beneficial.

Fluent in written and verbal English is required.

The ability to work independently and across multiple time zones is considered a plus.

“This position requires direct or indirect access to certain confidential information, hardware, software, technology, or technical information (referred to here as “Export-Controlled Information”) controlled under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All personnel in this position must be eligible to or be able to obtain authorization from the appropriate agency to access applicable Export-Controlled Information. The U.S. Department of Commerce currently requires a foreign person with a most recent citizenship or permanent residency of Sudan, Ukraine, or a country currently designated in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 (Supplement No. 1 to Part 740, Title 15) to have an export control license to access our Export-Controlled Information, unless they meet certain exemptions provided under U.S. export control laws and regulations. The list of applicable countries in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 may be updated by the U.S. government from time to time. The current processing time for an export control license is approximately 4 to 6 months.

Your employment or engagement with Infinera shall be contingent on verifying your eligibility or requirement for obtaining a necessary license and/or authorization from the appropriate agency. You will be required to provide certain information for export control compliance assessment purposes, and your information will be reviewed by Infinera's hiring and export control teams to ensure compliance with the U.S. export control laws and regulations. Infinera will collect necessary documents (such as proof of citizenship etc.) to assess license/authorization requirements if you are offered and accept the position.”

Infinera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Infinera complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

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