NVIDIA
semiconductor
SeniorManager,SiliconFailureAnalysisLabInfrastructure
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“Senior Manager, Silicon Failure Analysis Lab Infrastructure at NVIDIA. Skills: Silicon Failure Analysis (SiFA) Lab infrastructure leadership, high-availability, safe, and scalable failure analysis environment management, lab framework leadership, tool enablement and reliability, vendor and cross-functional partnerships, consumables, inventory, and asset management, safety, chemical, ESD and regulatory governance, long-term SiFA lab infrastructure roadmap definition and execution. Lead the overal”
What You'll Achieve.
enabling a high-availability, safe, and scalable failure analysis environment; efficiently root cause our groundbreaking semiconductor products; ensure reliable, secure, and scalable lab operations aligned with NVIDIA’s technology roadmap; minimize disruption; improving uptime, availability, MTBF, MTTR, and PM compliance; reduce downtime; ensure operational resilience; support future silicon nodes, advanced packaging technologies, and increasing system complexity; resolve product yield, performance, reliability, and quality issues; metric-driven reliability improvements; delivering on a multi-year scaling roadmap to meet the demands of the latest silicon, packaging, and system challenges
Industry & Context.
root cause analysis; resolve product yield, performance, reliability, and quality issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent experience, 12+ overall years of experience in semiconductor, R&D, or high-precision lab infrastructure, 5+ years of experience leading a team, Demonstrated experience with capital equipment enablement, Demonstrated experience with facilities coordination, Demonstrated experience with vendor management, multi-functional leadership, communication skills, execution skills
Nice to Have
Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of high-availability failure analysis labs to resolve product yield, performance, reliability, and quality issues, Proven experience enabling and sustaining complex capital tools with metric-driven reliability improvements, Achieved rigorous safety/compliance governance while delivering on a multi-year scaling roadmap to meet the demands of the latest silicon, packaging, and system challenges
What You'll Do.
Lead the overall Silicon Failure Analysis (SiFA) Lab infrastructure
and scalable environment
Own day-to-day lab operations and infrastructure readiness
Manage lab facilities and utilities
Drive failure analysis tool enablement and reliability
Lead vendor and cross-functional partnerships
ESD and regulatory governance
Define and execute the long-term SiFA lab infrastructure roadmap
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partners closely with FI, PFA, SQE, Corporate Facilities, EHS, IT, Finance, Procurement, and equipment vendors; Lead vendor and cross-functional partnerships with FI, PFA, SQE, Corporate Facilities, EHS, IT, Finance, Procurement, and equipment suppliers
Communication Scope
communication; multi-functional leadership
Process & Methodology
multi-year planning, phased expansion
Full Job Description
NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Silicon Failure Analysis (SiFA) Lab Infrastructure, responsible for enabling a high-availability, safe, and scalable failure analysis environment. This role leads the lab framework including facilities, utilities, tool enablement, safety, access control, and operational readiness so that Fault Isolation (FI), Physical Failure Analysis (PFA), and Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE) teams can efficiently root cause our groundbreaking semiconductor products. The role partners closely with FI, PFA, SQE, Corporate Facilities, EHS, IT, Finance, Procurement, and equipment vendors to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable lab operations aligned with NVIDIA’s technology roadmap. **What You 'll Be Doing:** * Lead the overall Silicon Failure Analysis (SiFA) Lab infrastructure, ensuring a safe, highly available, and scalable environment that enables FI, PFA, and SQE teams to efficiently root‑cause advanced semiconductor issues * Own day‑to‑day lab operations and infrastructure readiness, serving as the primary point of accountability for availability, reliability, and rapid resolution of infrastructure issues impacting failure analysis operations * Manage lab facilities and utilities including power, backup power, cooling water, DI/PCW, exhaust, vacuum, CDA, nitrogen, and specialty gases, coordinating upgrades, maintenance, outages, and construction to minimize disruption * Drive failure analysis tool enablement and reliability from delivery through sustained operation, ensuring preventive maintenance and improving uptime, availability, MTBF, MTTR, and PM compliance * Lead vendor and cross‑functional partnerships with FI, PFA, SQE, Corporate Facilities, EHS, IT, Finance, Procurement, and equipment suppliers to reduce downtime and ensure operational resilience * Own consumables, inventory, and asset management including gases, chemicals, PPE, and materials, with accurate tracking of inventory, asset lifecycle status, and preventative main
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