Principal Quality Development Leader, NPE

Job Title

Principal Quality Development Leader, NPE

Role Summary

Lead quality methodology and operating model across NVIDIA Networking Product Engineering (NPE) for product development, design, validation, NPI, manufacturing transfer, and field-learning. Partner with R&D, reliability, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations to ensure quality is designed in from concept through production and after-release learning.

Experience Level

Senior — 15+ years of relevant industry experience.

Responsibilities

Accountable for defining and driving development quality practices across the product lifecycle and for aligning quality governance and metrics with NPE leadership.

• Lead quality activities from concept through NPI and manufacturing transfer.
• Define and improve development quality processes and frameworks across design, engineering, test, and V&V.
• Participate in design reviews and provide milestone-readiness guidance.
• Lead risk-management activities, including FMEA and preventive quality methods.
• Drive root-cause investigations and ensure effective CAPA implementation and closure.
• Define, monitor, and report quality KPIs to NPE leadership.
• Collaborate with R&D, reliability, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations partners.
• Support audits and ensure compliance with internal and external requirements.
• Serve as the primary interface to Hardware and Operations Quality, driving organizational learning and governance across test assets.

Requirements

Core qualifications and skills required for this leadership role.

Must-have:

• 15+ years of experience in relevant industries and roles.
• Significant experience in hardware product development, product engineering, development quality, reliability, or related technical quality leadership.
• Strong understanding of product development lifecycles, NPI, validation, manufacturing transfer, and field-quality feedback loops.
• Experience leading structured problem solving, root-cause investigations, CAPA, and risk-management methods such as FMEA.
• Ability to work across design, engineering, validation, operations, and manufacturing organizations.
• Experience defining quality metrics, review mechanisms, and governance processes.
• Strong communication, influence, and stakeholder-management skills; ability to drive alignment in a matrix organization.

Nice-to-have:

• Proven background in complex hardware systems and manufacturing-oriented engineering environments, including test boards, testers, and validation platforms.
• Experience bridging engineering and operations quality and scaling methodology across multiple teams or organizations.
• Track record of building learning systems from FA, RMA, validation, and production feedback.

Education Requirements

B.Sc., M.Sc., or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.

About the Company

Company: NVIDIA

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.