Senior Director, ATE Test Development & Strategy

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 483,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation 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.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 18+ years of semiconductor experience, including 8+ years of management experience. Leading managers and distributed engineering organizations.
• Deep expertise in ATE development for high-volume silicon, SoC, ASIC, or GPU-class products.
• Shown success leading organizations through NPI, silicon bring-up, characterization, production ramp, yield improvement, and quality execution.
• Strong understanding of ATE platforms, test hardware design, test program development, instrumentation, silicon correlation, statistical analysis, and production test methodologies.
• Consistent track record to partner across design, DFT, product engineering, failure analysis, reliability, manufacturing, and supplier or OSAT ecosystems.
• Experience owning roadmaps, budgets, staffing plans, and operational priorities for large-scale engineering organizations.
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to influence senior collaborators and drive alignment across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision, roadmap, and operating model for ATE creation during NPI and production.
• Lead a distributed team across test hardware, program development, characterization, correlation, productization, and data-driven optimization.
• Drive production test readiness for complex devices, including coverage, guardband, yield learning, defect screening, quality containment, and cost reduction.
• Establish scalable methodologies, standards, release criteria, and quality gates for ATE development and deployment.
• Partner with architecture, circuit build, test integration, product engineering, system test, reliability, silicon operations, manufacturing, and external collaborators to align design and test.
• Lead strategy for ATE platform selection, vendor engagement, capacity, and capital planning for product ramps.
• Use data analytics to improve silicon correlation, test limits, binning, excursion response, and long-term quality.
• Build high-performance leadership culture through hiring, development, succession planning, and cross-functional influence.

Skills

Semiconductor test expertise

Distributed leadership

ATE development

Data-driven testing

Test hardware design

Test program development

Statistical analysis

Executive communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Test equipment

Instrumentation

DFT tools

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation 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.