Senior Product Quality Engineer, Board – Automotive

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

10d•$148,000 - $287,500

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Product Quality Engineer for its Quality and Reliability Group to maintain and improve the quality of NVIDIA automotive and Tegra products. The role supports products throughout their lifecycle, from new product introduction through production release and the investigation of customer returns. The successful candidate will bring strong technical experience with automotive board and system products, PCBA manufacturing and functional testing, and customer complaint handling.

Requirements

At least 8 years of hands-on experience in system- or board-level hardware verification and debugging.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Knowledge of manufacturing and production testing of boards and systems.
Experience with system test development and knowledge of 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.
Comfort using laboratory tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and DAQ.
Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with automotive products and standards.
Good knowledge of GPU/CPU product infrastructure and test methodologies.
Strong technical and debugging skills in test equipment and test-program troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align and maintain plans, methodologies, and requirements for failure-analysis solutions.
Develop test strategies for new features, including specifications and validation for test equipment and diagnostic software.
Perform detailed failure analysis, identify root causes of customer-reported issues, and debug at the PCB level to isolate faults for physical failure analysis.
Investigate product failures and determine solutions through laboratory experimentation and collaboration with NVIDIA teams.
Apply knowledge of system design, electrical engineering, and PCBA manufacturing to propose containment and corrective actions for design, production, and supplier issues.
Participate in containment, risk assessment, and risk mitigation activities related to hardware failures.
Share lessons learned from field-quality issues and provide early DFMEA input to identify known quality, reliability, and production issues and mitigate risks.
Assist in preparing 8D failure-analysis reports and verify and characterize the effectiveness of corrective actions.