Board Product Development Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 6 August 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 7 August 2026.
About the role
As part of the Operations Engineering team, you will architect, design, and implement manufacturing processes for AI PC, client, automotive, and embedded board and system products. You will represent operations engineering across the architecture and design product life cycle to deliver manufacturing capability feedback and guide production ramps.
What you'll do
- Architect, design, and implement manufacturing processes for AI PC, client, automotive, and embedded board and system products. - Represent Operations Engineering across the product life cycle to provide manufacturing capability feedback directly to design teams. - Define product test requirements and support NPI bring-up, validation, and characterization across worldwide manufacturing sites. - Drive process improvements and partner with multi-functional teams to support production ramps.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience. - 3+ years of experience in board and system product development engineering. - Understanding of System on Chip (SoC), CPU, GPU, memory subsystem design, and IO interfaces such as USB, SPI, UART, Ethernet, and display ports. - Knowledge of hardware and software interaction, including embedded low-level firmware and embedded operating systems. - Experience in design analysis, prototype bring-up, debugging, failure verification, and manufacturing test support. - Experience with manufacturing test and validation planning, reporting, and design of experiments (DOE) creation, execution, and data analysis. - Willingness to travel internationally for on-site factory product build support (6 to 8 weeks per year).
Skills: board/system product development, NPI bringup, validation, characterization, SoC, GPU
This role has been open 178 days — well above the 53-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
103
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$203k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (103 roles · 27 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 13 | 103 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 997 | 6277 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 78 d | 53 d (+25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $203k |
Skills observed across this category: board/system product development, NPI bringup, validation, characterization, SoC, GPU
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 27 open roles · median 65 d
- Qualcomm · 23 open roles · median 53 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 13 open roles · median 79 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 52 d
- Mobileye · 5 open roles · median 32 d
- Renesas Electronics · 4 open roles · median 4 d
How we counted: 103 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 27 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.