Automotive Hardware Application Engineer

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What you’ll be doing:

We are looking for an Automotive Hardware Application Engineer to complement our team. Candidates will be responsible for all technical aspects of supporting customers with NVIDIA DRIVE technologies for Autonomous driving systems. This will involve supporting customers from pre-sales activities through design to manufacturing, production and sustaining, and responding to all technical inquiries in a professional and proficient manner.

The successful candidate should be a self-motivated individual who is capable of prioritizing multiple customer issues simultaneously and have good communication skills. At the same time, you must be able to understand team priority and be a phenomenal teammate. We are looking for your expertise in Automotive design to complement our team. This is a summary of the role:

• Be an industry inspiring leader on integrating NVIDIA technologies like DRIVE Platforms and AI into vehicles

• Working with customers to develop groundbreaking & new technologies through Proof of Concepts and design, all the way through productizing it

• Building close technical relationships with customers & partners

• Working with worldwide teams to lead technical activities and customer support

• Training customers on new NVIDIA technologies through hands-on workshops

• Leading customer design with NVIDIA’s advanced Automotive and AI technologies

• Taking an active role in assessing the technical details of customer projects

• Reviewing Schematic and Board Layout

• Supporting customer design bring-ups

• Diagnosing problems with customer designs and solving customer issues

• To represent the customer from a technical viewpoint facing internal development teams

• Developing technical support materials including customer specific documentation

What we need to see:

• BS+ or equivalent experience in EE/CE engineering field and 3 plus years of experience

• Knowledge on processor/SoC interfaces (e.g. USB, SPI, UART, I2C, I2S) and memory subsystem design, both at an electrical and protocol-level

• Understand system level thermal and mechanical design such as liquid cooling and air cooling

• Proficient with reading and navigating through hardware design collateral such as schematics, layout, and 3D files

• Experience with hardware debugging skills and proficient with using high speed scopes and logic analyzers

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills as well as a customer service demeanor

• Possess good organizational skills, with a logical approach to problem solving, good time management and task prioritization skills

• Can-do attitude and able to work with minimum supervision

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Exposure and experience in Automotive and or Embedded Systems

• Expertise with PCB design/bring-up or FPGA development

• Experience with embedded low-level firmware and/or knowledge of embedded operating systems

• Prior experience with writing user documentation or specifications

• Prior experience as a system level Hardware Application Engineer

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