NVIDIA
Senior Director, Board Product Development Engineering
$332K–$500K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ overall years; 8+ years leading engineering teams; 5+ years leading leaders.
- Education
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience); MS or PhD is a plus.
About the job
Leads integration readiness across the chip-to-board manufacturing and test chain for next-generation datacenter boards, ensuring on-schedule builds and target yield.
What you'll do
- Establish end-to-end integration readiness processes, cross-domain sign-off gates, and manufacturing and test requirements.
- Build and lead a global Board PDE organization spanning PCB and fabrication, SMT/PCBA, and high-speed connectors and signal integrity.
- Own stack-wide reliability and yield, address root causes and design-for-excellence gaps, and collaborate with manufacturing partners.
What they ask for
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience; MS or PhD is a plus.
- 15+ years in product, manufacturing, or operations engineering for high-complexity electronics; 8+ years leading engineering teams and 5+ years leading leaders in a global, cross-matrixed organization.
- Track record taking complex board and system products from design through NPI to high-volume manufacturing, with ownership of schedule, yield, and quality.
- Technical expertise in chip-to-board technologies, high-speed signal integrity, manufacturing testing, and supplier qualification; excellent executive communication and willingness to travel internationally (~20%).
Nice to have
- Full accountability for board manufacturing processes and yields on AI or datacenter platforms at hyperscale.
- Experience taking next-generation interconnect, packaging, materials, fabrication, or board manufacturing processes into high-volume manufacturing.
Pay
332,000 USD - 500,250 USD (base salary)
Tools
BERT, 112G/224G SerDes, fine-pitch BGA, 2.5D/3D packaging, PCB, SMT/PCBA, CTE, DFx
AI focus
The role develops AI/datacenter board products; NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
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