The Role
Manages engineering laboratory operations, vendors, budgets, equipment maintenance, calibrations, repairs, upgrades, inventory, and technical facility procedures. Establishes ESD, safety, documentation, and security standards; oversees technicians and support staff; evaluates equipment and process issues; and coordinates lab resources with engineering, validation, systems, and IT teams to improve uptime, throughput, compliance, and cost efficiency.
Summary Generated by Built In
Team Credo is looking for an Senior Laboratory Administrator to join our mission to transform connectivity at scale. This role will play a critical role in advancing semiconductor technologies through innovative design, development, and testing. This position offers opportunities for cross-functional collaboration in a high-tech environment, ideal for professionals passionate about microelectronics and integrated systems.
Base salary range is $83,000 - $140,000 a year. The base salary offer will depend on factors such as education, experience, training, skills, qualifications, and location. This position is also eligible for a discretionary bonus, equity and a full range of medical and other benefits.
Why Credo
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
Responsibilities
Benefits
Credo’s mission is to transform connectivity at scale through fast, reliable, and energy-efficient system solutions. Our high-speed copper and optical interconnect products deliver industry-leading power and performance at up to 1.6T to meet the ever-expanding data infrastructure demands of AI.
Our product portfolio includes ZeroFlap (ZF) Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and ZF optical transceivers, OmniConnect memory solutions, and a suite of retimers and DSPs for optical and copper Ethernet and PCIe, all leveraging the PILOT diagnostic and analytics software platform. Credo innovations enable our customers to connect the systems that connect the world.
Credo is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ethnicity, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email [email protected].
Base salary range is $83,000 - $140,000 a year. The base salary offer will depend on factors such as education, experience, training, skills, qualifications, and location. This position is also eligible for a discretionary bonus, equity and a full range of medical and other benefits.
Why Credo
- Purpose: We invest in what matters. From meaningful-future shaping projects to competitive compensation, we empower you to grow your career while making a lasting impact.
- People: Connection starts within. We collaborate, celebrate wins, and create an environment where everyone can do their best work.
- Possibilities: Our belief shapes what’s next. Our technology powers the most reliable and energy-efficient connections around the world – and our team powers new products and markets that come next.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Eight or more years of experience managing engineering labs, validation labs, data center environments, or similar technical facilities, including vendor management and budget responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience making equipment repair/replace/upgrade decisions and directing vendors or technicians who perform the work.
- Strong working knowledge of RF test equipment, thermal chambers, probe stations, PCB rework tools, server hardware, and networking, sufficient to evaluate technical work performed by others.
- Experience negotiating and managing vendor service agreements and SLAs.
- Familiarity with ESD control standards and the ability to set and enforce program policy.
- Working knowledge of ISO quality management systems and controlled documentation processes.
- Excellent communication, judgment, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Experience supporting semiconductor product development, silicon validation, or application engineering teams.
- Familiarity with ANSI/ESD S20.20 requirements and ESD program ownership.
- Knowledge of high-speed networking technologies, optical connectivity products, and test equipment.
- Experience working in an ISO 9001-certified organization.
Responsibilities
- Exercises independent judgment to evaluate, select, and manage vendors for installation, calibration, and maintenance; negotiates service agreements and SLAs; determines whether equipment is repaired, replaced, or upgraded based on cost, risk, and business impact; owns the lab's operating budget and approves purchases and reorder decisions.
- Assigns and oversees the work of vendor technicians and support staff performing installs, moves, calibrations, and repairs; inspects and approves completed work; evaluates escalated equipment or process issues, determines root cause, and decides how they should be resolved.
- Establishes and enforces ESD control policy, safety standards, and operational procedures; partners with Application Engineering, Product Engineering, Silicon Validation, Systems Engineering, and IT leadership to prioritize lab resources across competing demands and drive continuous improvement in uptime, throughput, and cost efficiency.
- Maintain records for high-value prototype chips, evaluation boards, reference designs, and consumables; document thermal profile metrics, run logs, and equipment states using EMS/MES systems; track cable and connector inventory and log shortages for reorder.
- Maintain cable management, labeling, and documentation standards, and records confirming the lab environment meets operational, safety, and security requirements.
Benefits
Credo’s mission is to transform connectivity at scale through fast, reliable, and energy-efficient system solutions. Our high-speed copper and optical interconnect products deliver industry-leading power and performance at up to 1.6T to meet the ever-expanding data infrastructure demands of AI.
Our product portfolio includes ZeroFlap (ZF) Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and ZF optical transceivers, OmniConnect memory solutions, and a suite of retimers and DSPs for optical and copper Ethernet and PCIe, all leveraging the PILOT diagnostic and analytics software platform. Credo innovations enable our customers to connect the systems that connect the world.
Credo is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ethnicity, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email [email protected].
Skills Required
- Eight or more years managing engineering labs, validation labs, data center environments, or similar technical facilities
- Experience with vendor management and budget responsibility
- Experience making equipment repair, replacement, and upgrade decisions
- Experience directing vendors or technicians performing technical facility work
- Working knowledge of RF test equipment, thermal chambers, probe stations, PCB rework tools, server hardware, and networking
- Experience negotiating and managing vendor service agreements and service-level agreements
- Familiarity with ESD control standards and ability to establish and enforce program policy
- Working knowledge of ISO quality management systems and controlled documentation processes
- Excellent communication, judgment, and cross-functional coordination skills
- Experience supporting semiconductor product development, silicon validation, or application engineering teams
- Familiarity with ANSI/ESD S20.20 requirements and ESD program ownership
- Knowledge of high-speed networking technologies, optical connectivity products, and test equipment
- Experience in an ISO 9001-certified organization
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The Company
What We Do
Credo is a semiconductor and connectivity technology company developing fast, reliable, energy-efficient solutions for AI-driven applications, cloud computing, and hyperscale networks. Its portfolio is built on SerDes intellectual property, advanced integrated-circuit design, and system-level engineering, supporting data rates up to 1.6T. The company pioneered Active Electrical Cables and provides high-speed interconnect products and IP that reduce bandwidth bottlenecks across modern data-center infrastructure.
