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From the employer's careers site First seen 11 Sept 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Applications Engineer

NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3, a… per year

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Description

We are seeking an Applications Engineer to focus on customer enablement of enterprise products in a datacenter environment.

You will work with enterprise OEM partners to resolve hardware, firmware, and software issues, and provide both offsite and onsite support.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with OEM customers through their design, validation, and production flows
  • Provide onsite support for bring-up and debug of OEM server hardware
  • 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 same, or escalate customer issues
  • Familiarize yourself with performing hardware debug using oscilloscope and analyzers to qualify, validate, and solve NVIDIA products for customer systems
  • Track, file new bugs, and reproduce issues as needed
  • Work on resolving system integration issues related to thermal, mechanical, electrical, PCIe, and GPU interconnect interfaces including out of band management services
  • Create product specifications, hardware design guides, application notes, and other supporting technical collateral

Requirements:

  • BS or higher in EE, CE, or Systems Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years relevant experience in 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 using lab tools such as oscilloscope, multi-meters, 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 of working as an application engineer or any equivalent customer interacting role (i.e., ability to handle customers) is a plus
  • Have strong analytical skills and past experience in reviewing enterprise system design
  • Understanding of x86 and ARM system architecture for server design including BMC, security, and out of band management
  • Professional-level interpersonal skills, including your ability to adjust your communication to the technical level of the audience

Salary: 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4

Benefits: You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Skills

Required

  • Cadence Allegro Schematic Design Entry
  • Allegro PCB Layout
  • oscilloscope
  • multi-meters
  • logic analyzers
  • power integrity concepts
  • signal integrity principles
  • high-speed board design methodologies
  • x86 and ARM system architecture

Nice to have

  • application engineer
  • customer interacting role
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