Lead Hardware Systems Engineer for LPU AI Platforms

NVIDIA AI; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 287,500; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Hardware Systems Engineer to help build next-generation LPU platforms that support the most demanding AI workloads. You’ll work with teams across the company to shape system architecture, solve complex challenges, and strengthen the hardware foundation for large-scale AI.

We are committed to an inclusive and collaborative environment where people grow, contribute, and make an impact every day!

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience leading platform, system, or hardware engineering efforts.
• Broad knowledge in electrical/power design and mechanical/thermal engineering.
• Experience in pathfinding and maturing early designs to production.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving across hardware and software boundaries.
• Clear communication to align diverse engineering groups.
• Exposure to large-scale AI platforms such as LPU, GPU, TPU, or accelerators.

Responsibilities

• Drive hardware pathfinding for LPU platforms by leading early investigations into architectures for power delivery, cooling, mechanical design, and high-bandwidth interconnects.
• Guide system-level technical decisions influencing NVIDIA’s LPU roadmap.
• Work with silicon, architecture, data center, cloud, product, and manufacturing teams to deliver complete, production-ready systems.
• Lead full-stack system debug, addressing electrical, mechanical, thermal, firmware, OS, and application behaviors.
• Support program execution, tracking issues, driving root-cause analysis, and ensuring timely resolution.
• Own interconnect and cooling architecture, including optical links, backplanes, power distribution, and cluster-level cooling systems.

Skills

System-level design

Hardware engineering

Power/thermal design

HW/SW debugging

Cross-team communication

AI platform exposure

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Mechanical Eng or related field

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Hardware Systems Engineer to help build next-generation LPU platforms that support the most demanding AI workloads. You’ll work with teams across the company to shape system architecture, solve complex challenges, and strengthen the hardware foundation for large-scale AI.

We are committed to an inclusive and collaborative environment where people grow, contribute, and make an impact every day!