Senior Director, Hardware Engineering

The role

The Senior Director, Hardware Engineering will lead a team of hardware engineers across design, validation, and deployment. This role involves driving project execution and providing hands-on technical contribution to board bring-up, debugging, and system integration.

What you will do

• Lead a team of hardware engineers across design, validation, and deployment
• Drive project execution, ensuring milestones are met with high quality and efficiency
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Actively participate in board bring-up, debugging and system integration
• Support prototype builds, lab validation, High volume manufacturing and field issue resolution
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure robust designs
• Travel on short notice to vendor sites, manufacturing partners, and customer locations
• Build strong relationships with suppliers to ensure quality, cost, and delivery targets are met
• Oversee hardware development lifecycle from concept to production
• Implement best practices for DFM/DFT, reliability testing, and compliance

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
• 15+ years of experience in hardware design and development, with Significant years in a leadership role
• Proven ability to debug hardware at the board/system level using lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of high-speed interfaces, power delivery, and system integration
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently (international) on short notice

Nice to have

• Experience with data center hardware, networking equipment, or photonic/electrical interconnects
• Familiarity with compliance standards (FCC, CE, UL, RoHS, etc.)
• Strong vendor management and cross-cultural communication skills
• Track record of leading teams through NPI (New Product Introduction) and scaling to volume production

About the company

Lumilens is building photonics infrastructure for AI supercomputing, including chip-to-chip optical interconnects and scalable photonic engines. The company is a well-funded startup backed by Mayfield.