Senior Mechanical Hardware Design Engineer, IC Product

Job Title

Senior Mechanical Hardware Design Engineer, IC Product

Role Summary

Lead mechanical design and execution for IC product test platforms, including test boards, system-level test mechanical interfaces, HTOL reliability platforms, sockets and thermal solutions. Work across R&D and production teams to deliver robust production-ready mechanical and thermal implementations for high-power, high-speed devices.

Position is within NVIDIA Networking and collaborates with board design, signal integrity, optical interfaces, firmware, and test groups, and with ATE/prober vendors for production test solutions.

Experience Level

Senior — typically requires 5+ years of relevant mechanical design experience working with board design and production test environments.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include mechanical design, lab bring-up, and delivery of production-ready test platforms and interfaces.

• Define mechanical and electrical specifications for test boards, connectors, sockets, and thermal solutions.
• Perform mechanical and thermal design (including socket and high-power thermal strategies) and component selection with board-layout considerations.
• Lead lab bring-up, debugging, and validation of mechanical and thermal constraints for test platforms and production floor implementation.
• Design and qualify robust sockets and interfaces for high-speed and high-power devices on ATE/prober equipment.
• Lead HTOL (high-temperature operating life) and other reliability test platform development.
• Coordinate and collaborate with optical interfaces, board design, signal integrity, layout, firmware, system-level testing, and production teams.
• Work with ATE/prober vendors (e.g., UF and UF Plus testers) to develop test and thermal solutions for current and future products.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience; advantages / nice-to-have listed separately.

• Must-have: At least 5+ years mechanical design experience working with CAD platforms alongside board design teams.
• Must-have: Experience with mechanical design for digital, power and high-speed electronic systems and constraints.
• Must-have: Experience with optical-electrical interfaces and associated mechanical interfaces.
• Must-have: Project management skills and experience coordinating across multiple engineering and production teams.
• Must-have: Hands-on lab experience with bring-up, debugging, and implementing test solutions on production floors.
• Nice-to-have: System-level understanding of production SLT and final test processes and familiarity with ATE/prober equipment.
• Personal skills: Self-directed, multi-disciplined, able to manage multiple tasks and maintain strong interpersonal relationships.

Education Requirements

B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering required.

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.