CareerPlan

Senior Director, Reliability Engineering

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$332k2026-07-09 → 2026-11-10

Core

Set engineering standards for NVIDIA's hardware reliability across boards and systems, ensuring product performance and quality from qualification through field deployment for data centers, autonomous vehicles, and consumer electronics.

Role type

Senior Director, Reliability Engineering (Hardware)

Builds

Hardware reliability strategies, testing programs, and organizational capabilities for NVIDIA's product portfolio.

Domain

Semiconductor hardware reliability, data center infrastructure, autonomous systems

Required skills

Board and system-level reliability testing, physics of failure, DfR (Design for Reliability), FMEA, reliability modeling and predictions, statistics and data analytics, finite element analysis, semiconductor/package-level reliability, electronics manufacturing processes

Preferred skills

Graduate degree in Engineering/Physics/Materials Science, AI tools for reliability testing, accelerated testing techniques

Technologies

FMEA, NUDD, finite element analysis, AI tools, reliability modeling frameworks

Responsibilities

Own board and system level hardware reliability across product lines; oversee HW product reliability program and develop company-wide strategies; lead multidisciplinary reliability engineering teams and labs; collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Customers; develop new reliability testing methods and qualification approaches; define reliability improvements and testing capacity; champion reliability predictions and modeling for risk assessment.

Seniority

Senior Director, executive-level leadership with hands-on technical rigor