# Head of Failure Analysis

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 232,000 USD - 368,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As Head of Failure Analysis at NVIDIA, you will lead the failure analysis function from start to finish. You will conduct hands-on investigations of complex hardware and system failures, craft methodologies, and maintain product reliability. This role requires deep technical expertise and organisational leadership.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead and carry out complex failure and root cause analysis investigations on deployed hardware, electronic components, and coordinated systems

- Develop and validate corrective actions to drive product reliability at scale

- Partner with build, manufacturing, firmware, quality, and supplier teams to communicate technical findings and resolve cross-functional issues

- Plan and complete testing programs, including engineering calculations and laboratory experiments

- Prepare and present written reports and proposals conveying technical conclusions to various audiences

- Mentor junior engineers in FA procedures and guide the continuous development of organisational failure analysis methodologies

- Identify opportunities to expand NVIDIA's FA capabilities and strategic partnerships

**Requirements:**

- Ph.D. or M.S. or equivalent experience in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field

- Over 10 years of experience in failure analysis, product reliability, and materials science

- 5 years of leadership experience

- Extensive knowledge of failure analysis techniques and hazard recognition

- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot hardware/software interactions and reproduce elusive field failure conditions

**Benefits:**

- Base salary range: 232,000 USD - 368,000 USD

- Equity and benefits package

## Skills

### Required
- failure analysis
- product reliability
- materials science
- leadership
- communication

### Nice to have
- semiconductor industry
- high-performance computing
- AI hardware
- GPU system reliability

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