Job Title: Product Development Engineer
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Duration: Long term contract
Experience: 4+ Years
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
Platform Hardware Engineering
- Drive CM/ODM execution for NVIDIA server products across design, NPI, and volume production
- Review schematics, layout, and component selections (CPU, GPU, DDR, PCIe, VRM, NIC, storage)
- Support platforms bring-up, functional validation, and performance tuning
- Manufacturing & Quality
- Manage factory builds, test planning, and quality gates at CM sites
- Work with CM test engineering on automation, station bring-up, and yield improvements
- Analyze factory KPIs (yield, test failure rates, scrap, DPPM) and drive improvements
- Lead FA/CA/RCA for systemic field and build failures
- Firmware & System Enablement
- Interface with BIOS, BMC, firmware engineering for manufacturability and reliability
- Support secure boot, RAS features, GPU enablement, Redfish/IPMI readiness
- Validate firmware & system functionality during NPI
- Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
- Collaborate closely with NVIDIA R&D, quality engineering, supply chain, reliability, and program management
- Lead ODM/JDM weekly technical reviews and issue closure cycles
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to partners and internal stakeholders
Required Technical Expertise:
- 4+ years in server hardware engineering or datacenter system design
Deep knowledge in:
- GPU / CPU server platforms (NVIDIA HGX preferred)
- PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6, NVLink, CXL
- DDR4/DDR5 memory subsystems
- NVMe/SATA/SAS storage
- VRM, power delivery, AC/DC PSU, PDN analysis
- Thermal controls, high-density airflow solutions
- Board-level debug and lab tool proficiency (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers)
Pay: $50.00 - $60.00 per hour
Experience:
- server hardware engineering or datacenter system design: 4 years (Required)
- GPU / CPU server platforms (NVIDIA HGX preferred): 2 years (Required)
- PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6, NVLink, CXL: 2 years (Required)
- NVMe/SATA/SAS storage: 1 year (Required)
- DDR4/DDR5 memory subsystems: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: In person
