Senior Product Development Engineer

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

8d•$200,000 - $322,000

About The Position

As part of NVIDIA's Operations NPI Product Development Engineering team, the Senior Product Development Engineer helps take products from engineering concepts through high-volume production for datacenter platforms deployed at cloud scale. The team develops and delivers manufacturing, test, and failure-analysis and recovery processes for new datacenter servers and assemblies incorporating NVIDIA GPU, CPU, and high-speed interconnect technologies. The role supports product development during the NPI phase and successful handoff and enablement of high-volume production. The engineer works with hardware, firmware, and software engineering teams, manufacturing partners, program management, product quality engineering, factory personnel, and contract manufacturers. The position includes product planning and DFX participation, support during prototype and validation builds, production data and dashboard analysis, hardware debugging and recovery, process improvement, reporting, and development of manufacturing and test documentation.

Requirements

BS/MS degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering.
12+ years of relevant work experience.
Proven skills and experience in the design and manufacture of complex compute or networking hardware platforms.
Knowledge of major components such as CPUs, GPUs, and HBMs, and system interfaces/interconnects such as Ethernet, PCIe, I2C, and SPI.
Strong ability to diagnose and rationally solve problems on complex hardware platforms.
Familiarity with diagnostics and test software used in a factory setting.
Familiarity with the Linux command line, including running commands and reviewing outputs.
Ability to review log files and make initial triage decisions based on documentation provided by the Engineering Team.
Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaborating with global matrixed teams and developing clear documentation and reports.
Proactive, high-energy self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and accountability to drive critical tasks and projects through to completion.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally, typically 2–3 times per quarter.

Nice To Haves

Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and knowledge of high-speed digital design, signal integrity, statistics, timing analysis, fault analysis, sampling, and computer architecture.
Prior board- or system-level electrical design experience.
Working knowledge of AI-based tools for improving efficiency and automating day-to-day tasks.

Responsibilities

Develop and deliver manufacturing, test, and failure-analysis and recovery processes for new datacenter servers and assemblies.
Support product development during the NPI phase and enable successful handoff and enablement of high-volume production.
Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and software engineering teams, manufacturing partners, program management, and product quality engineering.
Develop and implement product development plans aimed at producing high-quality products.
Participate in Design for Manufacturing / Test (DFX) processes and reviews, and provide feedback to improve product quality.
Work with factory personnel and engineering teams during prototype and validation builds; resolve day-to-day issues, collect metrics, and report status.
Define and implement process improvements with operations teams based on data collection and analysis.
Review build dashboards to analyze throughput, yields, and failures.
Debug server platforms according to published guidelines; perform minor rework, retest, and recover units.
Publish daily status updates and build reports.
Develop documentation and standard operating procedures for product assembly, testing, debugging, and failure analysis for internal teams, contract manufacturers, or external customers.
Collaborate with contract-manufacturer failure-analysis and test engineers and operators to support factory assembly and test operations.