Senior Director, SerDes

Upscale, Inc., is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $500M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads.

We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical.

Our team is talent-dense andhigh-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact.

If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard.

We are building a world-class Ser Des engineering organization to enable next-generation, ultra-high-speed connectivity for AI data centers and high-performance computing.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Director of Ser Des Engineering to establish, lead, and scale our engineering team across design centers. This is a strategic leadership role combining deep technical expertise in advanced Ser Des development with organizational leadership, talent development, and cross-site engineering execution.

The successful candidate will build a high-performing team responsible for developing critical Ser Des foundation IP and key circuit modules that enable our next-generation connectivity solutions. The team will have meaningful technical ownership, working closely with engineering leadership and design teams across locations to define architectures, develop critical IP, and deliver production-quality silicon.

We are particularly interested in leaders with strong experience in high-speed Ser Des and foundation IP design who can lead and scale a collaborative, high-performance design center.

• Design Center Leadership: Establish and lead our Ser Des engineering Bangalore design center, including organizational planning, hiring, resource allocation, engineering processes, and long-term capability development.
• Technical Leadership: Drive the development of advanced Ser Des technologies for 100+G-per-lane and next-generation high-speed connectivity, with particular emphasis on receiver and clocking technologies.
• Foundation IP Ownership: Build and lead teams responsible for critical analog and mixed-signal foundation IP, including high-speed circuit building blocks, clocking circuits, receiver components, bandgap, LDO and other reusable technologies.
• Critical Module Development: Establish technical ownership of key Ser Des modules, driving architecture, circuit design, implementation, verification, and silicon validation in close collaboration with the global engineering organization.
• Talent Acquisition and Development: Recruit exceptional engineering talent across experience levels, develop technical leaders, establish mentorship programs, and build a sustainable pipeline of future engineering talent.
• Engineering Excellence: Establish rigorous design methodologies, technical review processes, implementation standards, and quality practices to ensure high-quality, predictable silicon delivery.
• Cross-Site
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Build effective working relationships with engineering teams across locations, ensuring seamless technical communication, clear ownership boundaries, efficient decision-making, and alignment on project priorities.
• Execution and Delivery: Own engineering plans, schedules, resource commitments, and technical milestones for the organization, ensuring delivery of critical IP and design modules to support overall product objectives.
• Technical Culture: Foster a culture of…