Senior Hardware Applications Engineer

NVIDIA's deep learning platform has made a major impact in the field and is broadly used across leading academic institutions, start-ups, and industry, including the world’s largest Internet companies. We need hardworking and creative people to help us explore rare opportunities in GPU applications within the enterprise solution space.

About the role

We are looking for a Hardware Applications Engineer to focus on customer enablement of enterprise products in a datacenter environment. This highly technical engineering role involves providing best-in-class support to NVIDIA's enterprise customers, working with internal teams to generate hardware design collateral, and ensuring successful customer designs using NVIDIA datacenter products.

Responsibilities

• Create product specifications, hardware design guides, application notes, and other supporting technical collateral.
• Engage in customer interaction and communication via conference calls or face-to-face meetings.
• Understand system design requirements for HPC and AI workloads to drive platform configuration guides for x86 and ARM servers.
• Review customer designs with respect to architecture proposals, thermal, mechanical, schematic, layout, signal integrity, etc., and provide feedback.
• Work directly with NVIDIA customers, analyze data to answer questions, reproduce errors, resolve issues, or escalate customer concerns.
• Perform hardware debug using oscilloscopes and analyzers to qualify, validate, and solve issues for customer systems.
• Track and file new bugs, and reproduce issues as needed.
• Resolve system integration issues related to thermal, mechanical, electrical, PCIe, and GPU interconnect interfaces, including out-of-band management services.

Requirements

• BS or higher in EE, CE, or Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience supporting enterprise datacenter products for x86 or ARM architecture.
• Experience using Cadence Allegro Schematic Design Entry (Concept HDL) design tools and Allegro PCB Layout.
• Experience with lab tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers.
• Background in power integrity concepts, signal integrity principles, and high-speed board design methodologies.
• Experience working with internal cross-functional teams for successful delivery of design collateral.
• Previous experience as an application engineer or equivalent customer-facing role is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and experience reviewing enterprise system designs.
• Understanding of x86 and ARM system architecture for server design, including BMC, security, and out-of-band management.
• Professional-level interpersonal skills, with the ability to adjust communication to the technical level of the audience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is:

• 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3.
• 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.