Senior Product Development Engineer - Boards

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Product Development Engineer - Boards in Santa Clara to drive complex board products from design to mass production. You will work on gaming/workstation/compute GPU cards during NPI and in production, collaborating with hardware, software, manufacturing and QA, and delivering DFx recommendations.

The role requires debugging multi-disciplinary problems, data analysis, and leading test plans to optimize yields and costs. Equity and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in two or more of: server architectures, board/PCB design, SMT, assembly or validation.
• Ability to debug multi-disciplinary problems across electrical, mechanical and thermal domains.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience with testing strategies related to yields and test time.
• 5+ years in design/manufacturing/validation/product development/testing of PCBs or related systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in EE or CS or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Work on NVIDIA gaming/workstation/compute GPU cards during NPI and in production.
• Collaborate with Hardware Design, Software, Manufacturing, Quality, and Marketing to meet schedules.
• Provide DFx recommendations during design to address electrical, mechanical, and thermal challenges.
• Root cause failing boards using lab equipment and SW tools.
• Analyze yield and parametric data with available tools and scripting.
• Define and improve manufacturing test plans to optimize coverage and cost.
• Direct local and overseas contract factories to transition to mass production.
• Regularly report product status and recommend improvements to management.

Skills

Server architectures

PCB design

SMT

Power-Integrity

Thermal characterization

Data analysis

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering or computer science

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Job description

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.

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