Senior Systems Design Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$136,000 - $258,750 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 October 2026 by the employer.
Work on GPU/CPU/SoC based products for various applications.
About the role
As a Senior Systems Design Engineer, you will develop NVIDIA GPU/CPU/SoC based products. This role focuses on products for GPU cards, Datacenters, automotive, robotics, industrial PC, and consumer electronics.
What you'll do
- Build system hardware products around GPU, CPU & Tegra SoC.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance product cost, performance, and schedule.
- Drive initial bringup and test, leading debug efforts.
- Create schematic, supervise PCB layout and system validation.
- Handle documentation required to release the product to manufactures and partners.
- Optimize/invent circuits and functions for better performance and lower cost.
What you'll need
- B.S in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of proven experience.
- Strong technical EE and hardware system design fundamentals and experience.
- Strong analytical skills including experience in PCB and system design and review.
- Hands-on bring-up experience, with the ability to lead and drive bring-up efforts independently.
- Strong board-level and system-level debugging skills, with the ability to guide the validation team through issue investigation and resolution during validation.
- Strong experience with using lab tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers.
Skills: system hardware products, GPU/CPU/SoC based products, schematic, PCB layout, system validation, board-level debugging
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 56-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
103
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Median days open
56 d
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Median salary
$210k
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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 (103 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 16 | 103 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 991 | 6157 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 75 d | 56 d (+19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $210k |
Skills observed across this category: system hardware products, GPU/CPU/SoC based products, schematic, PCB layout, system validation, board-level debugging
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 28 open roles · median 56 d
- Qualcomm · 22 open roles · median 41 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 15 open roles · median 80 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 43 d
- Mobileye · 4 open roles · median 23 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 15 d
How we counted: 103 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 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.