Senior Hardware Applications Engineer - Datacenter AI

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA seeks an Applications Engineer to enable enterprise datacenter products. You’ll diagnose hardware, firmware, and software issues, provide on-site support, and produce design collateral for customer implementations.

You will collaborate with OEMs across design and production flows, performing hardware debug, and contributing to platform configuration guides for HPC/AI workloads. Travel to partner sites is required.

Qualifications

• BS or higher in EE, CE or Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years relevant experience in supporting enterprise datacenter products for x86 or ARM architecture.
• Experience using Cadence Allegro Schematic Design Entry (Concept HDL) design tools and Allegro PCB Layout.
• Experience with using lab tools such as oscilloscope, multi-meters and logic analyzers.
• Background in power integrity concepts, signal integrity principles, and high-speed board design methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with OEM customers through their design, validation and production flows. Provide onsite support for bring-up and debug of OEM server hardware.
• Be involved in customer interaction, communication via conference calls or face-to-face meetings.
• Understand system design requirements for HPC and AI workloads to drive platform configuration guides for x86 and ARM servers.
• Review customer designs with respect to architecture proposals, thermal, mechanical, schematic, layout, signal integrity, etc.
• Work directly with our NVIDIA customers, analyze data to answer questions, reproduce errors, resolve issues, or escalate as needed.
• Familiarize with hardware debug using oscilloscope and analyzers to qualify and solve NVIDIA products for customer systems.
• Track, file new bugs and reproduce issues as needed.
• Resolve system integration issues related to thermal, mechanical, electrical, PCIe and GPU interconnect interfaces including out of band management services.

Skills

Customer interaction

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Education

BS or higher in EE, CE or Systems Engineering

Tools

Cadence Allegro Schematic Design Entry (Concept HDL)

Cadence Allegro PCB Layout

Oscilloscope

Logic analyzers

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA seeks an Applications Engineer to enable enterprise datacenter products. You’ll diagnose hardware, firmware, and software issues, provide on-site support, and produce design collateral for customer implementations.

You will collaborate with OEMs across design and production flows, performing hardware debug, and contributing to platform configuration guides for HPC/AI workloads. Travel to partner sites is required.