NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Failure Analysis Engineer 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 maintenance schedules
Ensure safety, chemical, ESD and regulatory governance by partnering with Corporate EHS, maintaining lab operating specifications, auditing access controls, and enforcing training, certification, safety, and IP protection requirements
Define and execute the long‑term SiFA lab infrastructure roadmap, leading multi‑year planning and phased expansion to support future silicon nodes, advanced packaging technologies, and increasing system complexity
What We Need to See:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent experience
15+ overall years of experience in semiconductor, R&D, or high-precision lab infrastructure
Demonstrated experience with capital equipment enablement, facilities coordination, and vendor management
Strong multi-functional leadership, communication, and execution skills
Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd:
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
With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers; we have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unparalleled growth, best-in-class teams are rapidly growing. If you’re creative and autonomous with a real passion for your work, we want to hear from you!
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field
- 15+ overall years of experience in semiconductor, R&D, or high-precision lab infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience with capital equipment enablement, facilities coordination, and vendor management
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NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”
