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Senior Product Quality Engineer, Chip - Automotive

NVIDIA

Location

Santa Clara, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

8/30/2026

Compensation

$148,000 - $287,500 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.2% approval-37% YoY
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Job description

The Senior Product Quality Engineer (PQE) role at NVIDIA focuses on maintaining the quality of Automotive and Tegra products. This position is part of the Quality and Reliability Group, which aims to enhance customer experience through continuous quality improvement. The engineer will support products throughout their lifecycle, from new product introduction to production release, while addressing customer complaints. The role requires strong technical expertise in automotive chip products and data analysis.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in Product/Test/Application/Quality Engineering
  • BS Degree or MS Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
  • Experience in chip level failure analysis and debug
  • Expertise in using Advantest V93000 Tester and experience in test equipment bring up
  • Familiarity with system level test
  • Exposure to digital design, circuit analysis, schematic review, statistical analysis, firmware, drivers, and diagnostic software applications
  • Comfortable with the use of lab tools such as oscilloscopes and multimeters
  • Outstanding problem-solving, collaborative, and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Act as the quality representative to the automotive NPI teams, supporting customer and internal quality requirements.
  • Coordinate with multi-functional teams to align and maintain plans, methodologies, and requirements for chip failure analysis solutions.
  • Lead cross-functional teams in customer quality issue root cause debug efforts using the 8D process.
  • Conduct failure analysis activities including data analysis, chip-level ATE, System level test, and Si FA tasks.
  • Generate 8D failure analysis reports and verify the effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions.
  • Create and review failure trends based on customer failure information and recommend actions for continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate with customer-facing teams to understand quality and reliability expectations and report Automotive Quality Metrics.
  • Share lessons learned from previous field quality issues and provide early input via DFMEA to mitigate known quality and production risks.
  • Represent quality in internal CRB and MRB meetings to ensure product quality meets NVIDIA standards.

Benefits

  • Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Nvidia Corporation

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

355

FY2026

Approval rate

99.2%

FY2026

LCA certified

7,667

FY2026

Entry-level share

11.9%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-37%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-83%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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