NVIDIA GPU Application Engineering is a department to provide technical support to NVIDIA global customers. Our main mission is delivering NVIDIA GPU related technical information to our customers, training our customers to design NVIDIA GPU related products, collaborate with OEM/ODM for new feature development, and supporting our customer to efficiently build NVIDIA GPU related products into the market.
We are now looking for a Notebook Hardware Application Engineer in Santa Clara with the ability to work for notebook feature development, build engineering documents, testing and debugging; prioritize customer issues, resolve customer problems, and maintain good customer relation. This is a highly technical engineering support role that is providing best-in-class support to NVIDIA's notebook customers. We are looking for someone who has superb interpersonal skills, to understand, explain, and problem solves for customers and engineers.
What you'll be doing:
Working with NVIDIA multi-functional teams for notebook feature development, Build design guides, application notes and other supporting technical collateral for notebook.
Provide technical support during notebook development, testing, and production.
Perform hardware design reviews including schematic, PCB and PDN to ensure customer designs meet NVIDIA guidelines.
Conduct the installation, configuration, debug and bring-up of customer notebook hardware.
Work directly with NVIDIA customers, and analyze data to answer questions, reproduce errors, resolve, or escalate customer issues.
Supervise, file new bugs and reproduce issues as needed.
What we need to see:
BS or higher in EE, CE or Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.
5 years’ experience with notebook hardware and circuit design.
Professional-level interpersonal skills, including your ability to adjust your communication to the technical level of the audience; Drive technical issues across multiple teams.
Analytical thinking with good problem-solving abilities.
Extensive Knowledge of NB hardware, power, thermal and electrical systems.
Ability of signal measurement and scope operations.
Good knowledge of X86 System Architecture.
Familiar with Linux would be advantageous.
Strong communications skills.
Innovative, results-oriented problem solver.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Experience with ARM.
Hardware design and knowledge of PCIe, I2C, DP/eDP/HDMI, USB-C, I2S, SATA.
Extensive Knowledge of notebook hardware, circuit design, power, thermal and electrical systems.
NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you.
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.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Five years of experience with notebook hardware and circuit design
- Professional-level interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to drive technical issues across multiple teams
- Analytical thinking and strong problem-solving abilities
- Extensive knowledge of notebook hardware, power, thermal, and electrical systems
- Ability to perform signal measurements and operate oscilloscopes
- Good knowledge of x86 system architecture
- Familiarity with Linux
- Experience with ARM
- Hardware design knowledge of PCIe, I2C, DisplayPort, eDP, HDMI, USB-C, I2S, and SATA
- Innovative, results-oriented problem-solving approach
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are depicted as strong, featuring a meaningful 401(k) match with Roth options and support for Mega Backdoor Roth contributions. These elements position long-term savings as a notable advantage of the total rewards package.
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NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”
