Senior Director, ATE Test Development

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# Senior Director, ATE Test DevelopmentApply: US, CA, Santa Clara: Full time: Posted Today: JR2026278NVIDIA 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.* Lead the strategy for ATE platform selection, vendor engagement, capacity readiness, and capital planning needed to support product ramps.* Use data and analytics to improve silicon correlation, test limits, binning strategies, excursion response, and long-term product quality.* Build a high-performance leadership culture through strong hiring, interpersonal development, succession planning, and multi-functional influence. **What we need to see:*** BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a 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.* 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. **Ways to stand out from the crowd:*** Experience with GPU, AI, networking, or other high-performance compute products.* Track record of reducing test cost while improving outgoing quality and production scalability.* Strong background in test automation, data infrastructure, and improvement guided by data insights.* Experience building and scaling global test-development organizations across multiple sites and external partners.* Familiarity with system-level test, product binning, performance and power optimization, or silicon operations workflows. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. This role presents an opportunity to have a wide impact at NVIDIA by improving the factory planning function. Are you creative, hard-working, dedicated, and determined? Do you love a challenge? If so, we want to hear from you!Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 320,000 USD - 483,000 USD.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 11, 2026.
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