# High-Speed Interconnect Architect

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a curious and driven Junior Interconnect Engineer to join our High-Speed Interconnect team onsite in Santa Clara, CA. This is a great opportunity to develop deep expertise in high-speed cable and connector engineering (≥100Gbps per lane) alongside some of the best engineers in the industry. You'll contribute to real product development while growing your skills across electrical and mechanical domains.

**Responsibilities:**

- Support the development and documentation of product requirements for high-speed cables and connectors

- Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to understand customer needs and translate them into design inputs

- Assist in mechanical and signal integrity analysis, learning to navigate the tradeoffs between the two

- Participate in root cause analysis for mating and mechanical issues, and help refine designs for manufacturability and reliability

- Support prototyping efforts and help track progress through development cycles

- Work closely with vendors and internal R&D teams under the guidance of senior architects

- Occasional travel to vendors, manufacturers, or customer sites (~10%) to build hands-on experience

**Requirements:**

- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering (or a related field) or equivalent experience

- 2+ years of experience in hardware engineering, with exposure to connectors, cables, or high-speed signal design

- Basic understanding of signal integrity or mechanical design principles , you don't need to be an expert in both, but curiosity across both domains is a must

- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical ideas clearly

- Eagerness to learn, ask questions, and grow quickly in a fast-paced environment

**Benefits:**

- Highly competitive salaries

- Comprehensive benefits package

- Equity eligibility

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- high-speed cable and connector engineering
- signal integrity
- mechanical design

### Nice to have
- high-speed PCB design
- FEA
- thermal modeling
- lab measurement equipment

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