Senior Datacenter Product Development Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States

Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.

This role focuses on the Manufacturing, Test, and Failure Analysis/recovery process for new datacenter servers.

About the role

This role involves owning, developing, and delivering the Manufacturing, Test, and Failure Analysis/recovery process for new datacenter servers and assemblies. This includes incorporating NVIDIA's latest GPU, CPU, and high-speed interconnect technologies.

What you'll do

• Engage early with hardware, firmware, software engineering, manufacturing partners, and operations units.
• Develop and implement comprehensive product development plans.
• Participate in Design for Manufacturing / Test (DFX) process and reviews.
• Work with factory personnel and engineering teams during prototype/validation builds, driving solutions and reporting status.
• Review build dashboards, analyze throughput, yields, and failure categories, and publish daily status reports.
• Develop documentation and SOPs for product assembly, test, debug, and failure analysis.
• Debug server platforms, work with CM Failure Analysis, Test Engineers, and Operators, and perform rework/retesting.

What you'll need

• BS/MS or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering and 12+ years of relevant work experience.
• Solid understanding of complex compute/AI server system architecture and rack scale systems (servers, backend network switches, TOR switches, power shelves, cabling).
• Proven skills and experience in design and manufacture of complex hardware platforms.
• Excellent complex hardware platforms debugging and rational problem solving skills; ability to review logfiles for initial triage.
• Familiarity with power and thermal system design for datacenter rack server systems.
• Familiarity with diagnostics/test software as used in a factory setting.
• CPU, GPU, HBM, PCIe expertise, and comfortable writing Python code and test scripts.
• Familiarity with linux command line, running commands, and reviewing output.

Skills: datacenter servers, manufacturing, test, failure analysis, DFX, server platforms debugging