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Senior Product Quality Engineer, Board – Automotive

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$148k–$236k2026-08-28 → 2026-11-11

Core

Senior Product Quality Engineer responsible for maintaining quality of NVIDIA Automotive and Tegra products, managing failure analysis, and supporting the product lifecycle from NPI to production release.

Role type

Senior IC hardware quality engineer (automotive/board level)

Builds

Automotive and Tegra board/system products

Domain

Automotive electronics and embedded systems

Required skills

system/board level hardware verification and debugging, PCBA manufacturing and functional testing, failure analysis and root cause identification, test strategy development, electrical engineering knowledge, statistical analysis, lab tool operation (oscilloscopes, multimeters, DAQ), 8D report generation

Preferred skills

automotive product standards knowledge, GPU/CPU product infrastructure and test methodology, advanced test equipment and program troubleshooting

Technologies

PCBA, diagnostic software, firmware, drivers, DAQ, oscilloscopes, multimeters

Responsibilities

Coordinate with multi-functional teams to align failure analysis plans and methodologies; Develop test strategies for new features including equipment and diagnostic software specifications; Perform detailed failure analysis and PCB-level debugging to isolate faults; Investigate product failures and determine solutions through lab experimentation; Propose containment and corrective actions for design/production/supplier issues; Maintain involvement in risk assessment and mitigation for hardware failures; Share lessons learned and provide early input via DFMEA; Assist in generating 8D failure analysis reports and verify corrective actions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC