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Senior Director, ATE Test Development

NvidiaUS, CA, Santa ClaraSilicon Validation & Bring-up
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First seen on this site 2026-10-08.
Posted 2026-10-07 · read from workday

NVIDIA is seeking a senior engineering leader to define and scale our ATE development strategy for complex silicon products from new product introduction through high-volume manufacturing. This role leads a global organization responsible for production test architecture, hardware and program development, silicon correlation, quality screening, yield enablement, cost-of-test optimization, and test automation. The ideal candidate brings deep semiconductor test expertise, strong interpersonal leadership, and can drive execution across developing, product engineering, manufacturing, reliability, and supplier ecosystems. What you will be doing: Set the vision, roadmap, and operating model guiding ATE creation throughout new product introductions and sustaining production. Lead and develop a distributed team composed of managers and senior engineers covering test hardware, program development, characterization, correlation, productization, and data-driven test optimization. Drive production test readiness for complex devices, including test coverage, guardband strategy, yield learning, defect screening, quality containment, and test cost reduction. Establish scalable methodologies, standards, release criteria, and quality gates for ATE development and deployment. Partner closely with architecture, circuit build, test integration, product engineering, system test, reliability, silicon operations, manufacturing, and collaborators outside the company to ensure strong design-to-test alignment.