NVIDIA
Senior Silicon Product Engineer – Manufacturing
$168K–$310K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of relevant proven experience in silicon post-silicon PVT validation and/or high-volume manufacturing testing.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree or equivalent in Microelectronics/Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Co-designs and implements system-level test (SLT) diagnostics and production testing for complex silicon products, supporting validation, manufacturing release, yield, quality, and high-volume production.
What you'll do
- Define and improve SLT test coverage, content, conditions, and flows with hardware, software, platform, and production teams.
- Bring up and debug silicon in the lab; correlate production testing with silicon characterization and diagnostics.
- Improve manufacturing test effectiveness through data analysis, root-cause investigation, coverage and test-time optimization, and customer escalation support.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree or equivalent in Microelectronics/Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in silicon post-silicon PVT validation and/or high-volume manufacturing testing for sophisticated SoCs, GPUs, CPUs, or similar.
- Hands-on lab experience with silicon bring-up, lab debug, test-content bring-up, and correlation to silicon characterization, yield, and coverage optimization.
- Experience with Python, BASH, Linux, and scripting.
Nice to have
- Prior experience working with volume data.
- Battle-tested experience with GPUs, CPUs, AI accelerators, or other large-scale SoCs; or co-designed or led production methodologies adopted by other teams in HVM.
Pay
168,000 USD - 264,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
Python, BASH, Linux, SLT, BLT
AI focus
Uses AI deliberately to drive impact while managing risk; native use of AI tools to accelerate production testing and debug workflows is a preferred qualification.
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