Manager, Product Development Engineering - HBM - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$200,000 - $322,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
You will collaborate across ASIC, system-level product development, test development, reliability, and manufacturing teams to drive HBM yield improvement.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor a team of product development engineers responsible for HBM bringup, characterization, and production ramp. - Partner with HBM vendors and NVIDIA teams to root-cause manufacturing failures and shift-left failures back to suppliers manufacturing. - Own root-cause analysis and resolution for yield excursions, fallout, and reliability escapes. - Lead yield improvement initiatives with a goal of reducing HBM manufacturing fallout. - Deliver structured quality feedback to HBM suppliers and lead test audits. - Establish scalable data analysis frameworks, automation tooling, and statistical methodologies for validation and production monitoring.
What you'll need
- MS or BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience. - 8+ years of experience in memory product development or engineering. - 3+ years of technical leadership and people management experience. - Strong circuit-level understanding of HBM architecture and command of key AC/DC datasheet parameters. - Hands-on experience with product characterization on the Verigy 93K ATE platform. - Proficiency in Python, C, or C++ with experience in statistical data modeling using JMP or equivalent tools. - Experience building automation and scripting infrastructure for validation, data analysis, and test workflows.
Skills: HBM product development, manufacturing ramp, yield improvement, product characterization, Verigy 93K ATE
This role has been open 46 days — below the 50-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
98
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$149k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (98 roles · 14 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 98 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 94 | 2223 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 50 d (−4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $149k |
Skills observed across this category: HBM product development, manufacturing ramp, yield improvement, product characterization, Verigy 93K ATE
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 60 open roles · median 71 d
- SanDisk · 14 open roles · median 55 d
- KIOXIA America · 8 open roles · median 16 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 3 open roles · median 204 d
- Solidigm · 3 open roles · median 35 d
- OmniVision · 2 open roles · median 156 d
How we counted: 98 open Product Engineering (Memory Design) roles from 14 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.