Senior Product Development Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Senior Product Development Engineer at NVIDIA, focusing on taking datacenter server products from engineering concepts to high-volume production. Responsibilities include developing manufacturing, test, and failure analysis processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams, implementing DFX, supporting builds, analyzing data, debugging hardware, and creating documentation. Requires BS/MS in EE with 12+ years of experience in complex hardware platforms, Python, problem-solving, and factory test software.

What you'd actually do

  1. Our team owns, develops and delivers the Manufacturing, Test, and Failure Analysis/recovery process for new datacenter servers and assemblies incorporating the latest NVIDIAs GPU, CPU, and high speed interconnect technologies. Your work will lead to the development of the product during the NPI phase and successful hand off and enablement of high volume production.
  2. Collaborate with a multi-functional group of HW/FW/SW engineering teams, manufacturing partners, and other operations groups such as program management and product quality engineering.
  3. Develop and implement comprehensive product development plans that will result in high quality products. Participate in Design for Manufacturing / Test (DFX) process and reviews. Provide DFX feedback that results in excellent product quality.
  4. Work closely with factory personnel and engineering teams during prototype/validation builds, driving solutions to day-to-day problems, collecting metrics and reporting status.
  5. Work with operations teams to define and implement process improvements, based on data collection and analysis.

Skills

Required

  • BS/MS or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering
  • 12 + years of relevant work experience
  • design and manufacture of complex compute or networking hardware platforms
  • CPU, GPU, HBM, PCIe expertise
  • comfortable writing Python code
  • diagnose and rationally solve problems on complex hardware platforms
  • diagnostics/test software as used in a factory setting
  • Familiarity with Linux command line, running commands, reviewing outputs
  • Ability to review logfiles and make initial triage decisions based on documentation provided by the Engineering Team
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • A high-energy, proactive 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 have

  • Strong EE fundamentals
  • knowledgeable in high speed digital design
  • signal integrity
  • statistics
  • timing analysis
  • fault analysis
  • sampling
  • computer architecture
  • Prior board/system level electrical design experience
  • Working knowledge of AI based tools for improving efficiency and automating day today tasks

What the JD emphasized

  • 12 + years of relevant work experience
  • complex compute or networking hardware platforms
  • diagnose and rationally solve problems on complex hardware platforms
  • diagnostics/test software as used in a factory setting
  • review logfiles and make initial triage decisions based on documentation provided by the Engineering Team
  • high-energy, proactive self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and accountability to drive critical tasks and projects through to completion