Senior Hardware Design Engineer, Ethernet Switching

Who You’ll Work With

Working closely with cross-functional teams including software, product management, and manufacturing, our engineers innovate on system architectures, high-speed PCB designs, and signal integrity to deliver state-of-the-art products that drive network performance and reliability.

The total estimated annual compensation range for this position, inclusive of base salary, bonus, and equity, is $300,000 to $655,000. This range is a good faith estimate only. Bonus and equity are discretionary, subject to plan terms, and are not guaranteed components of total compensation.

Actual total annual compensation may vary based on employee performance, company or equity performance, company policy, board approval, or similar factors. Please see additional base salary information below.

What You'll Do

Our Hardware Design Engineering team is at the forefront of developing high-speed networking and Ethernet products used in Enterprise campuses, hyperscale datacenters and bleeding edge AI clusters. The team is responsible for the end-to-end design and development of advanced hardware solutions that meet the demands of modern networking environments.

Candidates for this position would be responsible for the entire hardware design process:

Authoring Functional Specifications of high power and high density Ethernet switches used in AI networks

Selecting and Qualifying Components

Schematic Capture (both flat and hierarchical)

Working closely with eCAD teams on PCB layout and component footprints

Working with internal teams to run (or run your own) signal integrity simulations on both power and datapath signals

Specifying PCB stackup and fabrication details with various PCB vendors

Working closely with local and overseas Contract Manufacturers (CM), from proto through production

Lab bring up and debug of prototypes

Driving complex system debug between software, hardware, and test teams

Training CM for high yield test and manufacturing

Guiding groups of engineers and mentoring younger engineers

BSEE or MSEE

10+ years of relevant experience in hardware engineering

Experience designing Networking Hardware, particularly involving 100G and 200G PAM4 Ethernet switching

Embedded x86/ARM system design is highly desirable

Experience designing 20+ layer count boards featuring 50G+ signals, and advanced PCB manufacturing technologies such as sequential lamination, HDI, and ultra-low-loss materials

Experience working with multi-phase DC/DC’s for high current, high transient loads

Experience working with High speed interfaces, such as DDR, PCIe

Writing specifications and drawing schematics for high complexity boards

Working closely with CAD designers on complicated layout and routing

Working closely with Software and test engineers to bring-up and debug systems

Familiarity with signal integrity and power integrity concepts and tools, such as: impedance, PDN’s, differential routing, insertion loss, S-parameters, TDR’s, VNA’s

Experience with mass production Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

FPGA design and system simulation using Verilog

Working with Contract Manufacturers

Successfully taking products from concept to production

Base Salary Information

The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $180,000 to $275,000. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market.

The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location. The salary range provided reflects base pay only. As described above, this position may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity.

US- based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

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