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Senior Manager, Silicon Speed Productization

NVIDIA· Mgmt, Hardware (Engineering)
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Santa Clara, CA$232k - $368kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Manager to lead the Silicon Speed Productization team within NVIDIA’s Silicon Co-Design Group, owning simulation-to-silicon speed correlation and driving production sign-off across GPU, CPU, and SoC programs with data-driven decision-making and AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Close the prediction-to-silicon loop: Own speed characterization and correlation from pre-silicon planning and first power-on through production sign-off across GPU, CPU, and SoC programs
  • Resolve the hardest speed failures: Drive root-cause closure when a frequency corner does not hold, minimum operating voltage is too high, a critical path escapes timing analysis, or workload behavior diverges from the model
  • Define product limits with evidence: Refine methodologies for silicon margining, process-voltage-temperature characterization, guardbanding, aging, and speed binning, and translate the results into product requirements and production decisions
  • Left-shift learning: Feed measured-silicon insights back into timing models, critical-path predictions, test content, design practices, and future architectures so that each program begins with a stronger correlation baseline
  • Give leadership the clarity to act: Convert characterization data, model deltas, yield trends, and program risks into crisp, decision-ready options for leadership on plan-of-record, qualification, production, and ramp decisions
  • Scale analysis and coverage: Build closed-loop data, automation, and AI-assisted workflows for test orchestration, anomaly detection, triage, and reporting that improve coverage and cycle time
  • Build the organization NVIDIA depends on: Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing, globally-distributed team; grow engineers into recognized subsystem experts and develop first-line managers into independent leaders

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering (or equivalent experience)
  • 12+ overall years of experience in silicon characterization, post-silicon validation, timing or performance analysis, including 5+ years leading technical teams
  • Proven management experience developing senior engineers and first-line managers
  • Deep technical foundation in digital design, computer architecture, static timing analysis, critical-path behavior, clocking, power and timing interactions, semiconductor process variation, sampling, and statistics.
  • Hands-on expertise with silicon speed characterization, simulation-to-silicon correlation, voltage-frequency margining, guardbanding, and process-voltage-temperature and binning dependencies for high-performance silicon
  • Demonstrated ability to drive ambiguous, system-level issues to root-cause closure across the company
  • Proficiency with data-analysis and automation tools such as Python, JMP, SQL, or equivalent, with the judgment to distinguish correlation from causation in large silicon datasets
  • Strong written and verbal communication; able to translate complex technical issues into decision-ready options for leadership

Skills

Required:Silicon speed characterizationData analysis & automationLeadership & people managementTiming analysis & PPE

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (per NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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