Lab Manager - Hardware Engineering

Overview

• NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years.
• Today, we are tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing — an era in which our GPUs act as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that understand the world.
• Doing what has never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent.
• 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 What we need to see: 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.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd: 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.