Power Systems QA Engineer - Field-Failure Expert

NVIDIA Corporation

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 116,000 - 236,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Product Quality Engineer to own system-level power debug for customer returns and field failures in data center systems. You will lead investigations, isolate complex power issues, and connect board signals to system behavior with a strong root-cause mindset.

Work with hardware design, firmware, reliability, and manufacturing teams to drive containment, corrective actions, and knowledge learning. Strong communication and Linux-based debugging are essential for success.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field; Master's preferred.
  • Hands-on hardware debug and field/failure analysis experience.
  • Proficient reading schematics, PCB layouts, and power trees.

Responsibilities

  • Lead system-level power failure analysis for customer returns and field failures.
  • Confirm, reproduce, and isolate complex power failures (no power, intermittent boot, brown-out).
  • Analyze power architecture from AC/DC input through PSU, PDU, and rails.
  • Use oscilloscopes, probes, DMMs, logs, and Linux diagnostics for root cause data.
  • Correlate field data, firmware behavior, telemetry, and BOM history to identify root cause and risk.
  • Collaborate with design, firmware, reliability, manufacturing, and supplier teams to resolve issues.
  • Create technical reports and executive summaries outlining failure mechanism, impact, and mitigation.

Skills

Power analytics
System-level debugging
Linux scripting
Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes
DMMs
BMC/IPMI/Redfish logs
PCB schematics

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Product Quality Engineer to own system-level power debug for customer returns and field failures in data center systems. You will lead investigations, isolate complex power issues, and connect board signals to system behavior with a strong root-cause mindset.

Work with hardware design, firmware, reliability, and manufacturing teams to drive containment, corrective actions, and knowledge learning. Strong communication and Linux-based debugging are essential for success.

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