Senior Data Engineer, Engineering Data Analytics
Job Description
Based in Santa Clara, CA onsite, NVIDIA seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale cloud-based data platforms and analytics for engineering data analytics, focusing on data models, pipelines, and AI enabled insights.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve trusted engineering analytics datasets, data models, and data products for semiconductor product, manufacturing, and test data.
- Translate complex domain concepts into reliable data structures, metric logic, validation rules, and reusable analytics layers.
- Own and improve curated data layers, including prep/fact tables, silver/gold datasets, semantic views, and analytics-ready outputs.
- Partner with product engineering, UI, and data engineering teams to turn ambiguous engineering questions into scalable data solutions.
- Define data quality checks, acceptance criteria, and validation frameworks for production analytics data.
- Provide technical direction by defining standards, reviewing designs, and ensuring long-term maintainability.
- Help guide the evolution of data architecture across modern warehouse, data lake, and lakehouse technologies such as Redshift, S3/Athena, and Databricks.
- Support AI-enabled analytics by building well-governed, semantically clear datasets for AI-based exploration, anomaly detection, prediction, and recommendations.
- Optimize data pipelines and analytics datasets for correctness, performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
Requirements
- Strong SQL skills, including advanced concepts such as window functions, CTEs, complex joins, aggregation patterns, query optimization, and analytical query design.
- Strong Python skills, or equivalent experience building data-intensive software systems.
- Experience designing data models, analytics datasets, data products, or application data layers.
- Experience building or owning production data pipelines, data platforms, or analytics systems.
- Solid understanding of data correctness, table grain, lineage, metric definitions, validation rules, and data quality standards.
- Ability to learn complex technical domains and identify when data outputs are technically valid but semantically wrong.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with domain experts, engineers, product/UI teams, and data engineering teams while providing technical ownership and judgment.
- Interest in applied AI/ML and how trusted data foundations enable AI-based exploration, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and recommendations.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience) and 8+ years of relevant experience.
Technologies
Python, SQL, Redshift, S3, Athena, Glue, EMR, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
Ways to Stand Out
- Experience with semiconductor product engineering, test engineering, yield analytics, manufacturing analytics, quality, reliability, or hardware engineering data is a strong plus.
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms and lakehouse technologies such as S3, Athena, Glue, Redshift, EMR, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, or similar technologies.
- Experience with AI/ML enabled analytics, including LLMs, RAG, AI-based data exploration, natural-language-to-SQL, feature engineering, anomaly detection, prediction, or recommendation systems.
- Experience building engineering analytics platforms, internal data products, or decision-support tools for technical users.