Lab Manager - Hardware Engineering

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

NVIDIA is seeking a Lab Manager for its Hardware Engineering group to oversee lab operations across multiple design centers in India. The role involves managing lab technicians, planning and forecasting lab needs (space, power, equipment), ensuring safety and security compliance, managing equipment lifecycle, and standardizing operations across sites. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in silicon/HW lab setup and management, team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in silicon/HW lab setup, management, and maintenance
  • 3+ years managing a technical lab environment and leading teams across sites
  • Experience owning a multi-lab section
  • Capital and expense equipment planning
  • Vendor and outsourced-worker management
  • Inventory/logistics tracking
  • Hands-on experience operating lab equipment (oscilloscope, DAQ, and other common equipment)
  • 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
  • Comfortable using AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, or equivalent)