Senior Director, ATE Test Development
NVIDIA· Mgmt, Test Eng
Santa Clara, CA$320k - $483kfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior engineering leader to define and scale NVIDIA's ATE development strategy for complex silicon products from NPI through high-volume manufacturing, leading a global organization focused on production test architecture, hardware/program development, silicon correlation, quality screening, yield enablement, cost-of-test optimization, and test automation.
Responsibilities
- Set the vision, roadmap, and operating model guiding ATE creation throughout new product introductions and sustaining production.
- Lead and develop a distributed team 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 with architecture, circuit build, test integration, product engineering, system test, reliability, silicon operations, manufacturing, and external collaborators to ensure design-to-test alignment.
- Lead strategy for ATE platform selection, vendor engagement, capacity readiness, and capital planning for product ramps.
- Use data and analytics to improve silicon correlation, test limits, binning, excursion response, and long-term product quality.
- Build a high-performance leadership culture through hiring, development, succession planning, and cross-functional influence.
Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 18+ years of relevant 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.
- Proven 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.
- Track record of partnering across design, DFT, product engineering, failure analysis, reliability, manufacturing, and supplier/OSAT ecosystems.
- Experience owning roadmaps, budgets, staffing plans, and operational priorities for large-scale engineering organizations.
- Strong executive communication skills with ability to influence senior collaborators and drive alignment across technical and business teams.
Skills
Required:ATE developmentsilicon correlationleadership & program managementdata analytics
Benefits
- Equity eligibility
- Benefits package (as referenced in job description)
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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