Senior Silicon Product Engineer – Manufacturing - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$168,000 - $310,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.
Work with GPUs, SoCs, and CPUs from first power-on to high-volume production.
About the role
This role involves co-designing and implementing SLT Production diagnostics for silicon features in a high-volume manufacturing environment, verifying POR specifications, and supporting post-silicon validation.
What you'll do
- Partner with HW engineering teams to determine test coverage and constraints for SLT test conditions, content, and flows for high-volume manufacturing screens.
- Partner with SW and platform teams to support and improve SLT testing infrastructure, debug knobs, and data collection features.
- Co-design SLT testability scope and coverage enhancements for manufacturing testing with a focus on high-volume system-level manufacturing screens.
- Prototype and fine-tune speed, power, circuits, yield, and quality for effective silicon coverage in the SLT socketed environment.
- Co-design, develop, and maintain SLT testing flows and incorporate takeaways from silicon and correlate to design.
- Define procedures to facilitate Silicon correlation activities between production testing infrastructure and internal Si characterization and diagnostics programs.
- Support customer-facing and quality teams during customer escalations to understand issues and fix gaps identified in SLT production coverage.
- Drive alignment for manufacturability, test time optimization and reduction, cost vs. coverage tradeoffs to evaluate test effectiveness.
- Initiate and drive process improvements and preventative actions through root cause analysis and data analytics.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree or equivalent in Microelectronics/Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of relevant proven experience in silicon Post-silicon PVT validation and/or High-volume manufacturing testing for SoCs, GPUs, CPUs, or similar.
- Hands-on lab experience with silicon bring-up, lab debug, test content bring-up, and correlation to Si characterization, yield, and coverage optimization.
- Strong EE fundamentals, device physics, knowledgeable in Silicon design, statistics, STA concepts, signal integrity, fault analysis, sampling, and computer architecture.
- Prior ownership of manufacturing test strategy for a major silicon product (e.g., GPU/SoC/CPU) from early planning through ramp to QS/production.
- Strong data analysis skills.
- Good understanding of firmware/driver structures and their interaction with HW.
- Experience with Python, BASH, Linux, and scripting.
Nice to have
- Experience working with volume data.
- Experience on GPUs, CPUs, AI accelerators, or other large-scale SoCs.
- Co-designed or led multi-functional alignment on production methodologies adopted by other teams in a High Volume Manufacturing(HVM) environment.
Skills: post-silicon bring-up, silicon debugging, high-volume manufacturing, SLT testing, yield optimization
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 80-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
151
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Median days open
80 d
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Median salary
$175k
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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 (151 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 151 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 97 | 2219 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 61 d | 80 d (−19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $175k |
Skills observed across this category: post-silicon bring-up, silicon debugging, high-volume manufacturing, SLT testing, yield optimization
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 12 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 10 open roles · median 102 d
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 171 d
- onsemi · 10 open roles · median 80 d
- Entegris · 8 open roles · median 91 d
- Marvell Technology · 7 open roles · median 32 d
How we counted: 151 open Product Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.