Senior Board Product Development Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$168,000 - $322,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves ensuring the successful release of NVIDIA’s board and system products to high-volume manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Play a key role in releasing NVIDIA-designed board and system products to high-volume manufacturing.
- Define scalable manufacturing test architectures, methodologies, processes, and system requirements for board- and server-level products across ARM and x86 platforms.
- Develop and qualify test strategies, fixtures, and equipment for new product features, validating hardware test solutions for production deployment.
- Drive DFX initiatives and factory release requirements.
- Support factory builds and production ramps by debugging board- and system-level issues.
- Monitor end-to-end manufacturing test verification from board to system level, analyze production data, identify risks, and drive corrective actions to ensure release readiness.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering – or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Extensive experience in hardware design analysis, prototype bring-up, failure verification, and manufacturing test support.
- Extensive experience in high-volume board and system manufacturing process verification.
- Strong understanding of board and system manufacturing test processes, quality systems, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical information clearly.
- Able to travel to other countries for on-site factory product Builds supports (6 to 8 weeks per year).
Skills: manufacturing test architectures, qualify test strategies, DFX initiatives, factory builds, production data analysis
This role has been open 46 days — well below the 77-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
151
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Median days open
77 d
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Median salary
$170k
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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 (151 roles · 47 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 151 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 94 | 2223 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 68 d | 77 d (−9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $170k |
Skills observed across this category: manufacturing test architectures, qualify test strategies, DFX initiatives, factory builds, production data analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Texas Instruments · 12 open roles · median 48 d
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 168 d
- onsemi · 10 open roles · median 77 d
- AMD · 9 open roles · median 159 d
- Entegris · 9 open roles · median 85 d
- Marvell Technology · 7 open roles · median 29 d
How we counted: 151 open Product Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 47 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.