Senior Product Quality Engineer, Board – Automotive

About the role

NVIDIA's state-of-the-art products are powering Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Virtual Reality, Autonomous Vehicles, Enterprise Servers, Visual Computing, Home Entertainment, Datacenters, Servers, Automotive, Embedded Systems, and more. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with NVIDIA's groundbreaking products in a multi-functional environment! Welcome to NVIDIA's Quality and Reliability Group where we strive to develop and continuously improve quality systems for better customer experience!

This position is critical in maintaining the quality of NVIDIA's Automotive and Tegra products. We are looking for a Senior PQE who has strong technical experience in Automotive board and system products, PCBA manufacturing/functional testing, and customer complaint handling. They will support the product throughout the lifecycle of the product from NPI (new product introduction) to production release and later for resolving customer return issues.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with multi-functional teams, aligning and maintaining the plan, methodologies, and requirements for failure analysis solutions.
• Develop test strategies for new features, including test equipment and diagnostic software specification and validation.
• Perform detailed failure analysis, identifying root-cause of customer-reported issues – perform PCB-level debugging to isolate faults for physical FA.
• Investigate NVIDIA product failures and determine solutions through lab experimentation and collaboration with other teams within NVIDIA to root cause and resolve complex problems.
• Apply knowledge of system design, electrical engineering, and PCBA manufacturing to propose containment and corrective action for design/production/supplier issues.
• Maintain deep involvement in containment, risk assessment, and risk mitigation activities pertaining to hardware failures.
• Share lessons-learned from previous field quality issues; give early input via DFMEA to ensure known quality, reliability, and production issues are identified, and risks are mitigated.
• Assist in generating 8D failure analysis reports and verify/characterize corrective actions’ effectiveness.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in system/board-level hardware verification/debug.
• BS or MS Degree in Electrical 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.
• Comfortable with the use of lab tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, DAQ).
• Outstanding problem-solving, collaborative, and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• Experience with Automotive products and standards is a plus.
• Good knowledge of GPU/CPU product infrastructure and test methodology.
• Strong technical/debug skills in test equipment and test program troubleshooting.

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 $148,000 – $235,750 USD for Level 4, and $184,000 – $287,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.