NVIDIA
Silicon
PrincipalPerformanceandManufacturingArchitect
“Principal Performance and Manufacturing Architect at NVIDIA. Skills: Performance Architecture, Manufacturing Architecture, Silicon Validation, First-principles Modeling. Own physics from mechanism to margin. Build first-principles models”
What You'll Achieve.
Translate directly into product outcomes at scale; Improve how the organization ships products after every program; Make it unambiguous whether a marginal defect or timing violation is detected or escapes; Every team is making decisions from the same model; Every product NVIDIA ships goes through the systems you'll help build
Industry & Context.
First-principles thinking; Engineering judgment; Turn ambiguous physical phenomena into quantified, defensible margin terms; Design the experiment that gets data
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
15+ years in the field, Deep, hands-on understanding of how transient VF behavior develops worst-case stress conditions for marginal defects and timing violations, Demonstrated experience building first-principles models connecting physical parameters to manufacturing outcomes, calibrated through real silicon, A clear track record defining manufacturing test specifications on a shipped product, with each margin term explicitly sourced and owned, Built and ran silicon validation experiments that proved models from NPI through production
Nice to Have
Applied AI to production engineering workflows — model fitting, anomaly detection, and specification generation, Worked across the VF specification and manufacturing boundary on multiple nodes, Led multi-functional alignment on a methodology disagreement, Delivered innovative solutions on programs where the schedule did not allow a second experiment
What You'll Do.
Own physics from mechanism to margin
Build first-principles models
Set screen that resolves escapes
Specify ATE and SLT conditions
Make POR the authoritative source
Author methodology document
Drive alignment across teams
Prove model before production
Own per-release validation plan
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Drive alignment across build, product definition, reliability, and test engineering; Led multi-functional alignment on a methodology disagreement
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