Senior Board Design Hardware Engineer
Digital Design & SoC Architecture
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading system and board design for NVIDIA's Hardware Switch Group, focusing on networking infrastructure for data centers.
What you'll do
- Lead complex switch system and board designs from concept through qualification and mass production.
- Maintain a broad technical view across multiple projects, identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities for reuse.
- Define product, system, and board-level requirements, architectures, interfaces, and technical tradeoffs.
- Own and guide detailed electrical design, including schematics, component selection, power architecture, and CPLD/FPGA implementation.
- Lead multidisciplinary collaboration across board design, mechanics, thermal, signal and power integrity, PCB layout, software, firmware, RTL, validation, manufacturing, and quality.
- Guide and review complex multilayer PCB layouts, ensuring signal integrity, power integrity, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and performance.
- Perform hands-on board bring-up, integration, validation, and debugging using advanced laboratory equipment.
What you'll need
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
- 10+ years of experience in complex board design and hardware-system development.
- Ability to maintain a system-level and portfolio-level perspective while driving detailed hardware designs.
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary projects, technical reviews, architecture decisions, and complex problem-solving activities.
- Deep knowledge of electrical schematics, component selection, advanced multilayer PCB design, and layout implementation.
- Strong experience with high-current power-delivery design.
- Comprehensive understanding of CPLD/FPGA and RTL implementations.
- Strong hands-on laboratory skills, including board bring-up, system integration, validation, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
Market context
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 47-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
831
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Median days open
47 d
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Median salary
$159k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (831 roles · 101 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 55 | 831 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1001 | 5948 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 47 d | 47 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $159k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Intel Corporation · 55 open roles · median 25 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 54 open roles · median 51 d
- KLA Corporation · 48 open roles · median 39 d
- AMD · 45 open roles · median 50 d
- Applied Materials · 42 open roles · median 59 d
- Teradyne · 42 open roles · median 53 d
How we counted: 831 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 101 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Sept 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.