Senior Product Quality Engineer, Chip - Automotive

Nvidia

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On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
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$148,000–$235,750 / yr
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Full-time
Posted
60 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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TL;DR · Senior Product Quality Engineer, Chip - Automotive

JOB TITLE: Senior Product Quality Engineer, Chip - Automotive The Senior Product Quality Engineer, Chip - Automotive joins the Quality and Reliability Group to maintain the quality of Automotive and Tegra products. This role supports the product lifecycle from new product introduction to production release and customer complaint resolution. Key responsibilities include acting as a quality representative for automotive NPI teams, leading cross-functional root cause debug efforts using the 8D process, and performing failure analysis. The engineer will conduct data analysis, chip-level ATE, and system level test tasks while generating failure reports and monitoring quality metrics. Required skills include experience with the Advantest V93000 Tester, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and curve tracers. Candidates must possess expertise in chip-level failure analysis, circuit analysis, schematic review, statistical analysis, firmware, drivers, and diagnostic software applications.

What you'll do

  • Serve as the quality representative for automotive NPI teams to support internal and customer requirements.
  • Lead cross-functional teams to perform root cause debug efforts for customer quality issues using the 8D process.
  • Execute failure analysis activities including data analysis, chip-level ATE, and System Level Test (SLT) tasks.
  • Generate 8D failure analysis reports and verify the effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions.
  • Analyze customer failure trends to recommend continuous improvement actions to cross-functional teams.
  • Provide early input via DFMEA to identify and mitigate known quality, reliability, and production risks.
  • Represent the quality department in internal CRB and MRB meetings to ensure products meet company standards.
  • Report automotive quality metrics and share lessons learned from previous field quality issues.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in Product, Test, Application, or Quality Engineering.
  • BS Degree or MS Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience).
  • Experience in chip level failure analysis and debug.
  • Expertise in using Advantest V93000 Tester and experience in test equipment bring up.
  • Familiarity with system level test.
  • Exposure to digital design, circuit analysis, schematic review, statistical analysis, firmware, drivers, and diagnostic software applications.
  • Proficiency with lab tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and curve tracers.
  • Experience with Automotive products and standards (preferred).

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