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Senior Manager, Supplier Quality Engineering

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, USonsite$208k-$328k/yrPosted May 19, 2026

At a glance

Highlights

  • Competitive salary range
  • Generous equity and benefits
  • Focus on AI hardware quality

Heads up

  • Onsite work in Santa Clara
  • 12+ years overall experience required

Why this role might suit you

A senior manager with deep PCBA and supplier quality experience can lead NVIDIA's AI hardware quality initiatives, shaping global processes while collaborating across hardware, manufacturing, and reliability teams.

Skills

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About the role

NVIDIA is looking for an experienced senior manager to lead a team of PCBA factory Supplier Quality Engineers (SQE) in the North America region. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest quality of our complex AI systems. Your primary responsibility will be to represent all aspects of NVIDIA's AI hardware quality interests and to lead a high performing team of Quality engineers. You'll work with teams such as hardware engineering, product engineering, product quality engineering, supplier and commodity management to raise the supplier's quality bar and to drive continuous improvements. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse environment where everyone is encouraged to do their best work.

What you will be doing:

Manage a team of experienced quality engineers to bring up and manage NVIDIAs manufacturing sites.

Collaborate closely with manufacturing partners to ensure compliance with NVIDIA's unique Quality standards.

Manage manufacturing partners Quality performance through audits, Quality critical metric management, QBR/QQRs.

Lead complex quality excursion management, and new site/supplier qualification.

Cooperate with internal teams, including process, assembly, test, reliability, customer quality as main factory quality interface.

Develop quality management strategy and identify risks in early product phase.

Drive global Quality process harmonization and cross-function/cross-site initiatives.

What we need to see:

MS degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering or a related engineering degree, or equivalent experience.

12+ overall years of quality engineering experience of which 5+ years as a people manager

Extensive experience in large volume PCBA, tray and rack manufacturing for datacenter/server/networking/liquid cooled AI products (L6-L11) either as an OEM or as a CSP.

Practical experience in the effective use of Quality core tools (eg 8D, 5-Why, 6S, FMEA, SPC, MSA, Six Sigma/Lean, MRB, QBR).

Exemplary communication and proven problem solving skills, including data analytics, logical and statistical analysis, and oral presentation.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Thrive in a fast moving, daring and highly multi-functional environment.

Tight-knit collaboration experience and leading by example.

A track record of strong ownership for complex quality issues with a bias for action.

Experience with US-based compute system manufacturing supply chains

High-functioning, self-motivated, self-managed, with a passion for innovative AI technology and manufacturing.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, and we have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. Due to outstanding growth, our best-in-class teams are rapidly growing so if you're creative and autonomous with a real passion for technology, 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 208,000 USD - 327,750 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 23, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

Compensation

This QA Engineer role pays $208k-$328k/yr. Within typical range for qa engineer roles in United States.

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