Senior Product Development Engineer - Boards

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

This role focuses on product engineering for GPU gaming and compute boards, managing the transition from design to mass production. Responsibilities include working with manufacturing teams to improve yields, test coverage, and reduce costs, defining test plans, debugging failing boards, and analyzing manufacturing data. The role requires experience in server architectures, PCB design, SMT, assembly, validation, and high-speed interfaces.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work on NVIDIA gaming and compute GPU board products during NPI and in production
  2. Work with multi-functional teams (including Manufacturing, Quality, Reliability, Design, Customer Support and Marketing) to achieve fast-paced delivery schedules on groundbreaking products
  3. Define and improve manufacturing test plans to optimize coverage, test-time, test-cost and yield
  4. Perform product design and validation to support design engineering sustaining works.
  5. Root Cause failing boards and make DFX recommendations to design team.

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • debug complicated multi-disciplinary problems
  • Good team spirit and strong communication
  • Good 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

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • GPU gamming and compute products
  • mass production
  • increase yields
  • test coverage
  • capacity
  • reduce production costs
  • highest quality GPU products
  • 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
  • debug complicated multi-disciplinary problems
  • testing strategies
  • yields
  • test-time
  • 5+ years of experience
  • design / manufacturing / validation / product development / testing of PCB’s, Silicon or some other systems
  • electrical engineering or computer science