Senior Product Development Engineer - Boards

US, CA, Santa Clara

Full time

JR2016909

NVIDIA is an industry leader in AI, high performance computing and gaming. We are the Board Product Development Engineering team within NVIDIA’s operations group. Our work lies at the intersection of multi-disciplinary engineering fields – including but not limited to electrical, electronics, mechanical, thermal and software engineering. We are looking for a Senior Product Development Engineer - Boards, to help bring highly complex board products from its design phase into mass production.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work on NVIDIA gaming / workstation / compute GPU cards during NPI and in production

• Work with cross-functional teams (including Hardware Design, Software, Manufacturing, Quality / Reliability, Application Engineering and Marketing) to achieve fast-paced delivery schedules on groundbreaking products

• Provide DFx recommendations to design team when the product is in design phase – highlighting electrical, mechanical and thermal challenges

• Root Cause failing boards using lab equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes etc…) as well as SW tools.

• Analyze yield and parametric data using available tools and programming / scripting

• Perform product design and validation to support design engineering sustaining work.

• Define and improve manufacturing test plans to optimize coverage, test-time, test-cost and yield

• Direct local and overseas contract manufacturing factories to transition new products to mass-production.

• Regularly report product status and recommend improvements to management

What we need to see:

• Experience in two or more of the following areas – Server architectures, board/PCB-design, SMT, assembly, board or post-Si validation, product engineering, design or validation of high speed interfaces (like PCI-E / DP / HDMI / USB), Power-Integrity, Thermal characterization, complex test setups

• Ability to debug complicated multi-disciplinary problems

• Good team spirit and strong communication

• Strong grasp of testing strategies and their relation to yields and test-time

• 5+ years of experience in design / manufacturing / validation / product development / testing of PCB’s, Silicon or some other systems

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering or computer science – or equivalent experience

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Background in data analysis, software tools and scripting

• Experience enabling / driving cross functional debug

• Knowledge of PCB manufacturing process, Silicon or PCB debug, system assembly / testing and mechanical tolerances

• Knowledge of how to build computers and tweak BIOS settings

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is 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. This role presents an opportunity to have a wide impact at NVIDIA by improving the factory planning function. Are you creative, hard-working, dedicated, and determined? Do you love a challenge? If so, 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 136,000 USD - 212,750 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 258,750 USD for Level 4.

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.

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.

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