Senior Systems Design Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; 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 System Design Engineer in the Graphics Product Team to develop GPU/CPU/SoC based products for GPUs, Datacenters, automotive, robotics, and consumer electronics. You will work with HW/SW engineers to define system architecture, bring-up, validation, and release readiness.

The role requires a B.S. in EE, 3+ years of experience, and strong debugging skills. Equity and benefits are provided; salary varies by level and location in Santa Clara, CA.

Qualifications

• B.S in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of proven experience.
• Strong technical EE and hardware system design fundamentals and experience.
• Strong analytical skills including experience in PCB and system design and review.
• Hands-on bring-up experience, with the ability to lead and drive bring-up efforts independently.
• Strong board-level and system-level debugging skills, with the ability to guide the validation team through issue investigation and resolution during validation.
• Strong experience with using lab tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers.
• Flexible, team-oriented attitude, able to adapt to dynamic engineering environment.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build system hardware products around GPU, CPU & Tegra SoC.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team to balance cost, performance, and schedule under the guidance of system architects and product architects.
• Drive initial bringup and test, lead the debug efforts.
• Create schematic, supervise PCB layout and system validation.
• Handle documentation required to release the product to manufactures and partners.
• Optimize/invent circuits, functions for better performance, and lower cost.
• Improve the design flow together with the infrastructure team.

Skills

System design fundamentals

Hardware debugging

PCB design review

Lab instrumentation

Education

Bachelor's in EE

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Logic analyzers

Job description

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new challenges that are hard to tackle, that only we can pursue, and that matter to the world. This is our life’s work, to amplify human creativity and intelligence. We are now looking for a System Design Engineer in the Graphics Product Team. In this role, you will be working with a team of HW/SW engineers to develop NVIDIA GPU/CPU/SoC based products for GPU cards, Datacenters, automotive, robotics, industrial PC, consumer electronics, etc.

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new challenges that are hard to tackle, that only we can pursue, and that matter to the world. This is our life’s work, to amplify human creativity and intelligence. We are now looking for a System Design Engineer in the Graphics Product Team. In this role, you will be working with a team of HW/SW engineers to develop NVIDIA GPU/CPU/SoC based products for GPU cards, Datacenters, automotive, robotics, industrial PC, consumer electronics, etc.

What You'll be Doing:

• Build system hardware products around GPU, CPU & Tegra SoC.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team to pursue the balance of product cost, performance, and schedule under the guidance of system architects and product architects.
• Drive initial bringup and test, lead the debug efforts.
• Create schematic, supervise PCB layout and system validation.
• Handle documentation required to release the product to manufactures and partners.
• Optimize/invent circuits, functions for better performance, and lower cost.
• Improve the design flow together with the infrastructure team.

What We Need to See:

• B.S in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of proven experience.
• Strong technical EE and hardware system design fundamentals and experience.
• Strong analytical skills including experience in PCB and system design and review.
• Hands-on bring-up experience, with the ability to lead and drive bring-up efforts independently.
• Strong board-level and system-level debugging skills, with the ability to guide the validation team through issue investigation and resolution during validation.
• Strong experience with using lab tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers.
• Flexible, team-oriented attitude, able to adapt to dynamic engineering environment.
• Excellent communication skills.

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 October 19, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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