Nvidia Director Reliability 

United States, California 

696030073

What you'll be doing:

• Develop and implement reliability strategies from concept to production, ensuring alignment with NVIDIA’s business and technology roadmaps while driving industry-leading standard methodologies.

• Lead product qualification and proactive reliability efforts to catch potential issues early, balancing time-to-market and performance goals.

• Define and refine critical metrics to measure reliability efficiency, improve predictive modeling, and drive continuous improvement.

• Run innovative in-house reliability labs, ensuring efficient operations, smart prioritization, and strategic investments in new equipment.

• Partner with silicon foundries and packaging suppliers to improve reliability, proactively mitigating risks and addressing emerging challenges in advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

• Work closely with equipment suppliers to evolve reliability testing capabilities, keeping pace with the growing complexity of GPUs, SoCs, and CPUs, and next-generation requirements.

• Represent NVIDIA externally on reliability matters, engaging with industry forums, customers, and suppliers to reinforce NVIDIA’s leadership in semiconductor reliability.

• Lead and mentor a world-class reliability team, encouraging innovation and leadership in tackling the toughest challenges in reliability.

What we need to see:

• Deep expertise in advanced FinFET technology nodes (5nm, 3nm+), reliability physics, and both intrinsic and extrinsic failure mechanisms.

• Hands on experience in qualifying silicon across advanced packaging technologies (2.5D, 3D, dielets), addressing chip, package, chip-package interactions and board-level reliability.

• Proficiency in reliability statistics, reliability acceleration models, and failure rate estimates.

• Proven understanding of ATE test methodologies, electrical parameters, and drift analysis.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with circuit design, process, and packaging teams, as well as foundry and assembly suppliers.

• Expertise in industry standards (JEDEC, AEC) and application-specific reliability requirements for PC, data center, industrial, and automotive sectors.

• Demonstrated leadership in driving cross-functional initiatives, making strategic decisions, and scaling reliability teams in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong communication skills with experience presenting to executives, customers, and industry panels.

• Minimum 15 overall years of semiconductor reliability experience, including 10+ years in management roles and at least 3 years as a director or higher.

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering or Physics; PhD preferred.