Senior Director, ATE Test Development

Job Title

Senior Director, ATE Test Development

Role Summary

Lead and scale NVIDIA's ATE (automated test equipment) development for complex silicon from new product introduction through high-volume manufacturing. Manage a global organization responsible for production test architecture, hardware and program development, silicon correlation, yield enablement, cost-of-test optimization, and test automation.

Collaborate with architecture, product engineering, manufacturing, reliability, and external suppliers to ensure design-to-test alignment and production readiness.

Experience Level

Senior - 18+ years of semiconductor experience, including 8+ years of management experience leading distributed engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Lead strategy, teams, and execution for ATE development and production test readiness.

• Define vision, roadmap, and operating model for ATE across new product introductions and sustaining production.
• Lead and develop managers and senior engineers across test hardware, program development, characterization, and correlation.
• Drive production test readiness: test coverage, guardband strategy, yield learning, defect screening, and test cost reduction.
• Establish scalable methodologies, standards, release criteria, and quality gates for ATE deployment.
• Coordinate with architecture, circuit build, product engineering, reliability, manufacturing, and external partners to ensure design-to-test alignment.
• Develop ATE platform strategy, vendor engagement, capacity readiness, and capital planning to support product ramps.
• Use data and analytics to improve silicon correlation, test limits, binning strategies, and long-term product quality.
• Build leadership capability through hiring, development, succession planning, and multi-functional influence.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and leadership experience.

• 18+ years of relevant semiconductor experience with 8+ years of management experience leading distributed engineering organizations.
• Deep expertise in ATE development for high-volume silicon, SoC, ASIC, or GPU-class products.
• Proven success leading NPI, silicon bring-up, characterization, production ramp, yield improvement, and quality execution.
• Strong knowledge of ATE platforms, test hardware design, test program development, instrumentation, silicon correlation, and statistical analysis.
• Proven ability to partner across design, DFT, product engineering, failure analysis, reliability, manufacturing, and OSAT/supplier ecosystems.
• Experience owning roadmaps, budgets, staffing plans, and operational priorities for large-scale engineering organizations.
• Strong executive communication and influence across technical and business stakeholders.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with GPU, AI, networking, or other high-performance compute products.
• Track record of reducing test cost while improving outgoing quality and production scalability.
• 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 and product binning workflows.

Education Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience.

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.