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Characterization Product Development Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Product Development
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Santa Clara, CA$108k - $184kPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Product Development Engineer role focusing on productizing NVIDIA GPUs for consumer, professional, and datacenter markets. Involves driving architectural designs to market, improving manufacturing/test processes, identifying yield bottlenecks, and collaborating across design, foundry, DFT, test, planning, and quality to solve technical problems.

Responsibilities

  • Drive latest architecture designs to market as part of the Operations Product Development Engineering GPU Team.
  • Implement CP (chip probing) test processes to improve manufacturing efficiency for GPUs built in leading-edge process technology.
  • Identify and resolve yield bottlenecks, analyze and drive test failures, wafer & package level failures on Automatic Test Equipment (ATE).
  • Propose DOEs and devise solutions to complex characterization problems.
  • Cross-functionally lead efforts with design, foundry, DFT, test, Planning and quality to root-cause and solve technical problems.
  • Influence future ASIC designs to improve test coverage, yield, test time, silicon bring-up and releases.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of product development engineering or relevant experience.
  • Attention to detail, strong problem solving, data-driven decisions, critical thinking & solution-focused mindset.
  • Experience with digital design, circuit analysis, characterization and qualification.
  • Knowledge of ATE test flows, DFT and device physics.
  • Proficiency in statistical data analysis using JMP or other tools.
  • Strong interpersonal communication and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Ability to define and drive problems to closure independently with minimal supervision.

Skills

Required:Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experienceProduct development engineeringDigital designATE test flows, DFT, device physicsStatistical data analysis ( JMP or similar )Cross-functional collaborationProblem solving & independent ownership

Benefits

  • equity and benefits (as described)
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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