Senior Hardware System Design Engineer

Nvidia

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Work type: On-site
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Salary: $168,000–$258,750 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 13 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $213k

$139k most similar roles pay here $272k

This role pays more than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $171,375–$216,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $213k versus about $194k for comparable roles.

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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 1371 open roles on FindRole.

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As a Senior Hardware System Design Engineer on the Data Center System Architecture team, you will drive architecture for datacenter systems from the chip level to full-scale deployments. You will collaborate with silicon, software, networking, and operations teams to build cutting-edge products while analyzing performance, power, and cost metrics to inform critical project decisions. Your daily work involves guiding product teams, coordinating with suppliers to align roadmaps, and monitoring competitive trends. The role requires expertise in high-speed multi-layer product boards and a deep understanding of hardware architectures including mechanical, power, and thermal aspects of server builds. You will solve complex problems spanning both software and hardware while managing large projects involving custom processors or accelerators. Required skills include experience with GPU compute, networking, manufacturing operations, and cloud server deployment in high-scale environments.

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