Senior Electrical Product Engineer - Networking Products
NVIDIA Corporation is a world leader in visual computing technology. The GPU, invented by the company, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is central to products and services across four large markets: Gaming, Professional Visualization, Datacenter, and Automotive. The role supports the analysis and improvement of networking hardware products, including switches, adapters, network interface cards, and related data center technologies.
About the role
This position is based at a Contract Manufacturer or service/repair location where returned networking products are received, screened, debugged, repaired, and analyzed. The engineer will identify technical issues, support failure analysis, track product return trends, and escalate systemic or complex issues to global support, product engineering, quality, and design teams. This role is ideal for someone with strong hands-on debugging skills, a solid understanding of networking hardware, and the ability to collaborate closely with manufacturing, repair, and global engineering teams. The position will be based in Houston, Texas.
Responsibilities
- Support technical analysis of returned networking products, including switches, adapters, cards, and related hardware.
- Perform or guide troubleshooting, diagnostics, and failure verification at the CM/service location.
- Analyze return data to identify recurring failure modes, quality trends, and potential systemic issues.
- Work with repair technicians and CM teams to improve debug accuracy, repair flow, and root-cause identification.
- Review test logs, diagnostic results, failure symptoms, and repair history to determine next steps.
- Call out complex technical issues and failure trends to global support engineers, product engineering, quality, and design teams.
- Document failure analysis findings, debug steps, corrective actions, and technical recommendations.
- Support containment actions for high-impact or repeated failures.
- Help improve service procedures, test coverage, repair instructions, and diagnostic documentation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across operations, quality, supply chain, customer support, and engineering.
- Ensure returned products are handled according to quality, ESD, and process requirements.
- Provide regular reporting on top failure modes, return trends, unresolved issues, and escalation status.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of meaningful industry experience.
- Experience with networking hardware products such as Ethernet switches, NICs, adapters, transceivers, or data center hardware.
- Strong hands-on troubleshooting and failure analysis skills.
- Ability to read schematics, review test logs, and understand hardware diagnostic results.
- Familiarity with manufacturing, repair, RMA, or service operations.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify patterns in failure data.
- Good communication skills, including the ability to clearly document technical issues and escalate findings.
- Ability to work effectively with CM teams, technicians, suppliers, and global engineering teams.
Skills
- Ability to quickly understand returned product issues, separate isolated failures from broader trends, and improve technical feedback from the CM/service site.
- Ability to ensure critical issues are called out clearly and quickly to global engineering teams.
Benefits
NVIDIA offers competitive salaries and a generous benefits package. The company is widely considered one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, with a culture that values creativity, autonomy, and forward-thinking innovation.
Pay
Base salary will be determined based on location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 116,000 USD - 184,000 USD for Level 3, and 140,000 USD - 224,250 USD for Level 4. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.