Senior Hardware Systems Engineer - LPU Platform Pathfinding - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
Drive hardware pathfinding across power delivery, cooling, and optical interconnects for LPU platforms.
About the role
As a Senior Hardware Systems Engineer, you will help build LPU (Language Processing Unit) platforms supporting demanding AI workloads. You will drive hardware pathfinding across power delivery, cooling, mechanical design, and high-bandwidth interconnects.
What you'll do
- Drive hardware pathfinding for LPU platforms by leading early investigations into architectures for power delivery, cooling, mechanical design, and high-bandwidth interconnects. - Guide system-level technical decisions that influence NVIDIA's LPU roadmap. - Work with silicon, architecture, data center, cloud, product, and manufacturing teams to deliver complete, production-ready systems. - Lead full-stack system debug across electrical, mechanical, thermal, firmware, OS, and application behaviors. - Support program execution by tracking issues, driving root-cause analysis, and ensuring timely resolution. - Own interconnect and cooling architecture, including optical links, backplanes, power distribution, and cluster-level cooling systems.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). - 8+ years of experience leading platform, system, or hardware engineering efforts from concept through delivery. - System knowledge in electrical/power design, mechanical/thermal engineering, firmware integration, and performance tuning. - Experience in pathfinding, evaluating early designs, and maturing them into real solutions. - Debugging and problem-solving experience across hardware and software boundaries. - Exposure to large-scale AI platforms such as LPU, GPU, TPU, or custom accelerators.
Skills: LPU platforms, power delivery, cooling, high-bandwidth interconnects, system-level technical decisions, full-stack system debug
This role has been open 200 days — well above the 112-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
92
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Median days open
112 d
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Median salary
$200k
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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 (92 roles · 35 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 14 | 92 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 981 | 6250 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 54 d | 112 d (−58 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $200k |
Skills observed across this category: LPU platforms, power delivery, cooling, high-bandwidth interconnects, system-level technical decisions, full-stack system debug
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 14 open roles · median 53 d
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 199 d
- AMD · 5 open roles · median 131 d
- Astera Labs · 4 open roles · median 38 d
- Intel Corporation · 4 open roles · median 14 d
- Keysight Technologies · 4 open roles · median 152 d
How we counted: 92 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 35 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 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.