Senior Field Application Engineer

Job Title

Senior Field Application Engineer

Role Summary

Senior Field Application Engineer responsible for supporting GPU and networking products through production and deployment to ensure reliability, manufacturability, and quality at scale. The role works with manufacturing, quality, failure analysis, and cross-functional engineering teams to diagnose failures, drive root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.

Local to Guadalajara is strongly preferred.

Experience Level

Senior. Requires significant industry experience; posting specifies 5+ years of relevant experience in high-tech electronics, manufacturing, failure analysis, validation, or hardware debug roles.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities focus on failure analysis, yield improvement, and cross-functional collaboration from NPI through high-volume production.

• Act as technical specialist for GPU and networking products to support manufacturing, quality, and failure analysis teams.
• Diagnose, reproduce, and resolve hardware and system-level failures through frequent on-site presence in labs and manufacturing sites.
• Identify system failure modes and manufacturing risks; drive corrective actions and design/process improvements.
• Support product lifecycle from NPI to high-volume manufacturing and field returns, ensuring continuous quality and reliability improvements.
• Develop failure analysis methodologies, test plans, diagnostics, and tools for hardware validation.
• Provide technical training and documentation to manufacturing, test, and quality teams on failure modes and debugging techniques.
• Establish and maintain technical relationships with internal engineering teams and manufacturing partners to enable timely issue resolution and root-cause determination.

Requirements

Must-have professional experience and skills required to perform the role.

• 5+ years of relevant experience in high-tech electronics, manufacturing, failure analysis, validation, or hardware debug.
• Proven track record in root-cause analysis, yield improvement, and managing multiple failure investigations and escalations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with experience coordinating complex cross-functional investigations.
• Experience with system-level debugging tools and developing diagnostic/test plans for hardware validation.
• Experience working with manufacturing partners, ODMs/OEMs, or reliability/quality teams in production environments.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; able to present technical findings clearly to engineering teams and management.
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, evolving environment and travel on-site as required.

Education Requirements

BS or MS in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Computer Science — or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: NVIDIA

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.