Director of Reliability

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We are seeking an outstanding candidate for Director of Reliability who will lead NVIDIA's efforts to achieve the highest level of quality and reliability for future-generation silicon products in various markets. This role requires critical thinking, technical expertise, and the ability to advance reliability innovation in processes while collaborating with internal organizations, customers, and partners.

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.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you. Come build the future with us!

The base salary range is 240,000 USD - 368,000 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.