Senior Product Quality Engineer, Chip - Automotive

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

10d•$148,000 - $287,500

About The Position

NVIDIA’s Quality and Reliability Group works to develop and continuously improve quality systems and customer experience. This role is critical to maintaining the quality of NVIDIA’s Automotive and Tegra products. The Senior Product Quality Engineer brings technical experience in automotive chip products, data analysis, manufacturing and functional testing, and customer complaint handling. The position supports products throughout their lifecycle, from new product introduction through production release and resolution of customer complaints.

Requirements

At least 8 years of hands-on experience in Product, Test, Application, or Quality Engineering.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Experience in chip-level failure analysis and debugging.
Expertise using the Advantest V93000 tester and experience bringing up test equipment.
Familiarity with system-level testing.
Exposure to digital design, circuit analysis, schematic review, statistical analysis, firmware, drivers, and diagnostic software applications.
Comfort using laboratory tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and curve tracers.
Outstanding problem-solving, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with automotive products and standards.
Good knowledge of GPU/CPU product infrastructure and test methodology.
Strong technical and debugging skills in data analysis, test equipment, and test-program troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Represent Quality on automotive NPI teams and support customer and internal quality requirements.
Coordinate with multifunctional teams to align and maintain plans, methodologies, and requirements for chip failure analysis solutions.
Lead cross-functional root-cause debugging for customer quality issues using the 8D process.
Lead failure analysis activities, including data analysis, chip-level ATE, system-level test (SLT), and silicon failure analysis tasks.
Assist in preparing 8D failure analysis reports and verify and characterize the effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions.
Create and review failure trends based on customer failure information and recommend continuous-improvement actions with cross-functional teams.
Work with customer-facing teams to understand quality and reliability expectations and requirements, and report automotive quality metrics.
Share lessons learned from previous field quality issues and provide early DFMEA input to identify known quality, reliability, and production issues and mitigate risks.
Represent Quality in internal CRB and MRB meetings to ensure product quality meets NVIDIA standards and that risks are understood and mitigated.