Senior System Failure Analysis Engineer

Overview

• We are looking for a system engineer to join our Failure Analysis engineering team under the System Product Engineering group in the NVIDIA.
• As a System Failure Analysis (FA) Engineer, you are responsible for the end-to-end investigation of product failures.
• You act as the Failure analysis product owner diagnosing complex issues that span Hardware, Software, Firmware, and Mechanical boundaries of the investigation, synthesizing data from all engineering disciplines to reach a definitive root cause.
• While you provide the architectural oversight for the team, you remain deeply technical and active in the laboratory environment.
• ​ What You’ll Be Doing: ​Hands-on Lab Investigation: You are active in the lab environment.
• You perform advanced debugging, characterize system behavior, run reproductions of failures in the lab, and utilize sophisticated lab equipment to validate hypotheses, bridging the gap between high-level data and physical hardware reality.
• Multidisciplinary Failure Analysis: Lead deep-dive investigations into system-level failures, understand and analyse customer usage for the product, diagnose how software execution, firmware logic, and hardware components interact to cause specific failure modes.
• ​Root Cause Ownership: Drive the investigation lifecycle from initial symptom to final physics-of-failure or logic-error identification.
• ​Task Force Leadership: Orchestrate and lead cross-organizational technical task forces at the company level.
• You align experts from HW, SW, Mechanical, and NPI teams to solve high-priority technical problems.
• ​Advanced Data & AI Integration: Define and utilize sophisticated data analysis tools and AI-driven methodologies.
• You correlate customer failure patterns with production telemetry and RMA history to identify hidden trends and systemic risks.
• ​Customer Quality Support: Take part in the customer interface by interacting with NVIDIA’s Customer Quality Engineers.
• You provide the deep technical evidence and root-cause clarity needed for quality reports and high-level technical presentations.
• ​Strategic Lab Direction: Define the high-level debug strategy and complex test plans for the lab.
• You guide hardware practical engineers on characterization requirements and system-level stress testing.​ What We Need to See: ​​Lab Proficiency: Expert-level experience with lab equipment and the ability to conduct complex characterization on state-of-the-art hardware.
• System Engineering Depth: B.Sc/B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• ​Product Development Experience: 5+ years of experience in Product Development, System-Level Debugging, or Architecture.
• You must understand how a product is designed and manufactured to effectively analyze its failure.
• ​Full-Stack Debugging Skills: Proven ability to troubleshoot issues where the hardware, software, and firmware interface.
• You are comfortable navigating different technical domains to find a root cause.
• ​Data Fluency: Experience using data analysis tools and a strong interest in applying AI/Machine Learning to automate and scale failure analysis processes.
• ​Leadership Presence: The ability to lead technical teams through high-pressure investigations and clearly communicate findings to both engineering and quality stakeholders.
• ​ Ways to Stand Out from the crowd: ​Hybrid Technical Background: Experience in Board Design combined with SW or Firmware development.
• ​NPI to Mass Production Expertise: A track record of solving technical problems during the transition from prototype to high-volume manufacturing.
• ​Data Tooling: Experience building custom Python scripts or SQL dashboards to visualize and analyze global product failure distributions.
• ​Failure Avoidance Mindset: Ability to provide technical feedback to R&D teams based on FA findings to improve the robustness of future products.
• NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers.
• We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us.