Hardware Application Engineer

NVIDIA Application Engineering is a department to provide technical support to NVIDIA global customers. Our main mission is delivering NVIDIA GPU and SoC related technical information to our customers, training our customers to design NVIDIA related products, collaborate with OEM/ODM for new feature development, and supporting our customers to efficiently build NVIDIA GPU and SoC related products into the market.

We are now looking for a Hardware Application Engineer in Santa Clara with the ability to work for new feature development, testing and debugging; prioritize customer software/hardware issues, resolve customer problems, and maintain good customer relations. This is a highly technical engineering support role that provides best-in-class support to NVIDIA's 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 GPU and SoC feature development, testing, and debugging.

• Provide technical support during development, testing, and production.

• Perform hardware and software design reviews to ensure customer designs meet NVIDIA guidelines.

• Conduct the installation, configuration, debug and bring-up of customer hardware.

• Work directly with NVIDIA customers, and analyze data to answer questions, reproduce errors, resolve, or escalate customer issues.

• Be involved in customer interaction, set up and drive customer communication via conference calls, and face to face meetings.

• Supervise, file new bugs and reproduce issues as needed.

• Build design guides, application notes and other supporting technical collateral.

• Working with PMIC, Power sequence, battery life and regulator design.

What we need to see:

• BS or higher in EE or Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.

• 5 years’ experience with notebook system design (hardware and Software), Programming knowledge in Python/C/C++/ VB/ Linux Shell programming.

• 5 years’ experience with regulator and PMIC design, PDN analysis, power sequence.

• Professional-level interpersonal skills, including your ability to adjust your communication to the technical level of the audience; Drive technical issues across multiple teams.

• Possess a nurtured knowledge of Linux, and be very comfortable working in various Linux environments as well as with Windows OS’s.

• Good knowledge of X86 System Architecture and ACPI.

• Familiar with computer system architecture, microprocessor, and microcontroller fundamentals (caches, buses, memory controllers, DMA, etc).

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• BIOS engineer experience for 2+ years.

• Experience with ARM, PMIC, Regulator.

• Experiences on SBIOS features developing specific platforms. (MMIO, SMBus, IPMI, IOAPIC will be plus).

• 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 - 212,750 USD.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 7, 2025.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse 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.