Senior Automotive PQE — Quality Engineer with Equity

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA in California is seeking a Senior PQE to strengthen its Automotive and Tegra product quality program. You will lead root-cause analysis, debugging at PCB level, and containment actions across lifecycle stages from NPI to production release.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, lab testing with scopes/DAQ, and robust failure analysis reporting. Equity and comprehensive benefits accompany competitive base salaries.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in system/board level hardware verification and debugging.
• BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent).
• Knowledge of manufacturing and production testing of boards and systems.
• Experience with system test development and components such as servers, storage devices, network devices, power supplies, cooling systems, security, and software.
• Exposure to digital design, circuit analysis, schematic review, statistical analysis, firmware, drivers, and diagnostic software applications.
• Comfortable with lab tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, DAQ).
• Outstanding problem-solving, collaborative, and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with multi-functional teams to align and maintain failure analysis plans.
• Develop test strategies for new features, including test equipment and diagnostics.
• Perform PCB-level debugging to identify root causes of failures.
• Investigate product failures and determine solutions through lab experimentation.
• Apply system design and PCBA manufacturing knowledge to propose containment and corrective actions.
• Maintain involvement in containment, risk assessment, and mitigation for hardware failures.
• Contribute to 8D failure analysis reports and verify corrective actions.

Skills

System/board level hardware validation

Root cause analysis

PCB debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Firmware and drivers knowledge

Lab testing with oscilloscope/DAQ

Education

BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering

MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

DAQ

Job description

NVIDIA in California is seeking a Senior PQE to strengthen its Automotive and Tegra product quality program. You will lead root-cause analysis, debugging at PCB level, and containment actions across lifecycle stages from NPI to production release.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, lab testing with scopes/DAQ, and robust failure analysis reporting. Equity and comprehensive benefits accompany competitive base salaries.