Hardware Systems Engineer - LPU Platform Pathfinding
$124,000 - $241,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
NVIDIA is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineer to contribute to hardware development for LPU platforms, investigating architectures for power delivery, cooling, mechanical build, and high-bandwidth interconnects.
What you'll do
- Support system-level technical decisions and trade-off analyses that influence NVIDIA’s LPU roadmap.
- Work with silicon, architecture, data center, and manufacturing teams to deliver production-ready systems.
- Conduct lab bring-up and hands-on hardware debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and bench instruments to analyze system behavior.
- Assist in full-stack system debug, addressing electrical, mechanical, thermal, firmware, and application-level issues.
- Collaborate with vendors to debug issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive timely resolution.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 4+ years of experience in platform, system, or hardware engineering from concept through delivery.
- Working knowledge in one or more of: electrical/power build, mechanical/thermal engineering, firmware integration, or performance tuning.
- Practical lab experience with hardware initialization and troubleshooting using oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers.
- Experience with board building using Cadence tools, including schematic capture (Design Entry HDL/OrCAD/Capture) and PCB layout (Allegro).
- Experience working in Linux environments to run SW diags, FW upgrades, and parse test logs, alongside understanding of I2C, SPI, USB, and UART.
Skills: board design, schematic capture, Allegro, power delivery, bring-up
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 48-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
1054
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Median days open
48 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$153k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (1054 roles · 101 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 48 | 1054 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1002 | 6265 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 64 d | 48 d (+16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $153k |
Skills observed across this category: board design, schematic capture, Allegro, power delivery, bring-up
Who's hiring in this category
- Intel Corporation · 78 open roles · median 42 d
- Teradyne · 61 open roles · median 42 d
- KLA Corporation · 60 open roles · median 54 d
- Applied Materials · 51 open roles · median 59 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 49 open roles · median 65 d
- ASML · 46 open roles · median 26 d
How we counted: 1054 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 101 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 30 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.