Customer Solutions Architect, Applications Engineering

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$116,000–$189,750 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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This role $153k
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This role pays less than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $149,586–$235,187 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $153k versus about $192k for comparable roles.

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About Nvidia

Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

Nvidia currently has 896 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Customer Solutions Architect, Applications Engineering

As a Customer Solutions Architect, Applications Engineering, you will join the Applications Engineering team to enable next-generation embedded products and system solutions. You will lead a Partner Enablement team to ensure product quality, optimize performance, and improve integration processes while collaborating with hardware design, firmware, software, sensors validation, and AI algorithm teams. Your daily work involves engaging with Tier-1 and OEM customers from new product introduction through mass production, defining system-level requirements for SoC solutions, and maintaining technical documentation. You will evaluate power efficiency and thermomechanical integration to provide feedback for future improvements. The role requires expertise in thermal, mechanical, and electrical engineering, as well as experience with automotive and robotic systems. You must possess deep knowledge of AI hardware products and demonstrate strong communication skills to solve complex problems across multidisciplinary teams.

What you'll do

  • Lead a Partner Enablement team to ensure product quality, reliability, and optimized integration processes.
  • Collaborate with Tier-1 and OEM customers to develop future embedded architectures and roadmaps.
  • Integrate NVIDIA's embedded solutions into customer products alongside hardware, firmware, software, and AI algorithm teams.
  • Define system-level requirements and specifications for embedded architectures using NVIDIA SoC solutions.
  • Maintain comprehensive design documentation, test plans, and customer enablement materials.
  • Evaluate and improve system performance, power efficiency, and thermomechanical integration.
  • Provide technical feedback to internal teams to drive improvements in future hardware designs.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in EE, CE, CS engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Proven experience in the field.
  • Expertise in thermal, mechanical, and electrical (TME) engineering from board design to large-scale system integration.
  • Proven track record of leading teams and working with multidisciplinary groups including hardware, firmware, software, and AI algorithm developers.
  • In-depth knowledge of AI hardware products and applications.
  • Exceptional communication skills for both internal and external collaboration.
  • Strong ability to solve complex technical and process problems while understanding broader trade-offs.

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