# Hardware Systems Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $124,000 - $195,500 for Level 2 and $152,000 - $241,500 for Level 3
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineer to join our team in developing next-generation LPU platforms that support fast-paced AI workloads. You will collaborate with top engineers, contribute to system architecture, solve complex problems, and enhance the hardware foundation for large-scale AI.

**Responsibilities:**

- Develop hardware for LPU platforms, focusing on power delivery, cooling, mechanical build, and high-bandwidth interconnects.

- Support system-level technical decisions and trade-off analyses influencing NVIDIA's LPU roadmap.

- Work with silicon, architecture, data center, and manufacturing teams to deliver production-ready systems.

- Collaborate with vendors to debug issues and drive resolutions.

- Conduct lab bring-up and hands-on hardware debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other instruments.

- Assist in full-stack system debug, addressing electrical, mechanical, thermal, firmware, and application-level issues.

- Support program execution by tracking issues, contributing to root-cause analysis, and driving timely resolutions.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- 4+ years of experience in platform, system, or hardware engineering from concept through delivery.

- Working knowledge in electrical/power build, mechanical/thermal engineering, firmware integration, or performance tuning.

- Practical lab experience with hardware initialization and troubleshooting.

- Experience with board building using Cadence tools.

- Understanding of communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, USB, and UART.

- Solid debugging and problem-solving skills across hardware and software boundaries.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Exposure to large-scale AI platforms such as LPU, GPU, TPU, or custom accelerators.

- Experience supporting the build or validation of accelerator systems at rack or cluster scale.

- Familiarity with cross-functional collaboration across diverse engineering teams.

NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. The base salary range is $124,000 - $195,500 for Level 2 and $152,000 - $241,500 for Level 3.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- hardware engineering
- firmware integration
- performance tuning
- Cadence tools
- communication protocols

### Nice to have
- large-scale AI platforms
- accelerator systems
- cross-functional collaboration

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