Manager, Ate Test Development

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Manager for ATE Test Engineering at NVIDIA, focusing on transferring LPU products to mass production, improving yields, test coverage, capacity, and reducing costs. The role involves leading a team, defining test strategies, driving cross-functional workflow improvements (including AI), providing technical mentorship, and developing KPIs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of hardworking engineers developing test and automation solutions
  2. Define test strategies/roadmap and find opportunities for improvement
  3. Drive cross-functional workflow improvements including automation, simulation, and AI
  4. Provide technical mentorship and strategic direction for the team
  5. Develop and track KPIs to measure test process effectiveness and efficiency

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
  • 8+ years of relevant experience ATE testing (emphasis on SRAM testing)
  • 4 years of experience of leading a team
  • Working knowledge and hands-on experience with Advantest 93K ATE platform (SmarTest 8)
  • Critical thinking
  • good communication
  • leadership and collaboration skills
  • Excellent debugging and analytical skills
  • Understanding of DFT insertion techniques including SCAN, ATPG, MBIST and IOBIST

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of active thermal management
  • Product engineering experience, such as yield analysis, vmin/fmax characterization, defect analysis
  • Teradyne UFlex experience
  • Experience with AI-assisted workflow using Cursor, Claude and ChatGPT to enhance efficiency of everyday work

What the JD emphasized

  • Advantest 93K ATE platform (SmarTest 8) is critical