Senior Hardware Application Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$136,000 - $264,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
Focus on customer enablement of NVIDIA datacenter products.
About the role
This role involves customer enablement of enterprise products in a datacenter environment, supporting OEM partners with hardware, firmware, and software issues.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with OEM customers through design, validation, and production flows, providing onsite support for bring-up and debug of OEM server hardware.
- Understand system design requirements for HPC and AI workloads to drive platform configuration guides for x86 and ARM servers.
- Review customer designs, including architecture proposals, thermal, mechanical, schematic, layout, and signal integrity.
- Perform hardware debug using oscilloscope and analyzers to qualify, validate, and solve NVIDIA products for customer systems.
- Resolve system integration issues related to thermal, mechanical, electrical, PCIe, GPU interconnect interfaces, and out of band management services.
- Create product specifications, hardware design guides, application notes, and supporting technical collateral.
What you'll need
- BS or higher in EE, CE, or Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years relevant experience supporting enterprise datacenter products for x86 or ARM architecture.
- Experience using Cadence Allegro Schematic Design Entry (Concept HDL) design tools and Allegro PCB Layout.
- Experience with lab tools such as oscilloscope, multi-meters, and logic analyzers.
- Background in power integrity concepts, signal integrity principles, and high-speed board design methodologies.
- Understanding of x86 and ARM system architecture for server design, including BMC, security, and out of band management.
Nice to have
- Experience working with internal cross-functional teams for successful delivery of design collateral.
- Previous experience as an application engineer or equivalent customer-interacting role.
- Strong analytical skills and experience reviewing enterprise system design.
Skills: customer enablement, datacenter hardware design, OEM partners, schematic, layout, signal integrity, oscilloscope and analyzers
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 62-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
36
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Median days open
62 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (36 roles · 10 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 36 |
| Median days open | 26 d | 62 d (−36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: customer enablement, datacenter hardware design, OEM partners, schematic, layout, signal integrity, oscilloscope and analyzers
Who's hiring in this category
- Baya Systems · 8 open roles · median 62 d
- GlobalFoundries · 8 open roles · median 66 d
- Texas Instruments · 5 open roles · median 11 d
- Arm Holdings · 4 open roles · median 90 d
- AMD · 3 open roles · median 7 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 3 open roles · median 26 d
How we counted: 36 open Applications FAE (SOC Architecture) roles from 10 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. Figures refresh nightly.