Post-Silicon Validation and Methodology Engineer

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 218,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Generous benefits package

Equity opportunities

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Hardware Engineer in Santa Clara, California, to manage silicon bring-up and validation processes. This role involves collaborating with teams across multiple disciplines to enhance silicon performance and create automated lab workflows.

Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and have significant experience in silicon development. Comprehensive compensation packages and a commitment to diversity make NVIDIA a top employer in technology.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in silicon bring-up, validation, debug, or productization.
• Deep fundamentals across digital development, microarchitecture, timing, clocking, power, noise, and control systems.
• Hands-on lab proficiency with various instruments.
• Strong programming and scripting proficiency in Python and C/C++.
• Proficiency in AI tools to accelerate silicon validation work.

Responsibilities

• Own bring-up, validation, and productization plans for silicon.
• Partner across teams to define requirements for power management.
• Build and deploy AI-assisted lab workflows.
• Lead root-cause analysis on HW/SW interaction issues.
• Identify and redesign current processes where they break.

Skills

Silicon bring-up

Validation and debug

Python

C/C++

AI tools for silicon validation

Education

BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Power analyzers

Job description

Join NVIDIA, a trailblazer at the forefront of graphics and artificial intelligence performance, efficiency, and innovation. From our roots as a groundbreaking graphic company, we have evolved into a global leader in artificial intelligence, continuously pushing the boundaries to tackle complex challenges across diverse industries.

The problems that break late in a silicon program almost always break here first — at the boundary where architecture, design, firmware, and silicon meet reality in the lab. NVIDIA's Silicon Co-Design Group has an end-to-end view that almost no team anywhere can claim: from early architecture through bring-up to product release, across GPU, SoC, and CPU programs spanning Datacenter, Gaming, Robotics, Automotive, and Embedded. We are looking for a hardware engineer who builds the methods, test infrastructure, and coverage strategies that find issues before software is production-ready — and who rewires the team's workflow when the old approach isn't fast enough.

What you will be doing:

• Own bring-up, validation, qualification, tuning, and productization plans for next-generation silicon — from first power-on through PVT sign-off.
• Partner across architecture, build, firmware, and software teams to define requirements for power management and clocking features, then drive coverage from pre-silicon through production.
• Build and deploy AI assisted lab workflows. These workflows automate bring-up telemetry and silicon measurement data evaluation. They provide anomaly detection on regression results and debug-triage tooling. This tooling reduces the time from observation to root-cause hypothesis. The team runs these tools during every bring-up, not as occasional scripts.
• Build the test infrastructure, characterization methodologies, and bring-up playbooks that shift post-silicon coverage left and raise velocity across programs.
• Lead root-cause analysis on the hardest HW/SW interaction issues — with the measurement field, instrumentation judgment, and hypothesis rigor to close them under schedule pressure.
• Identify where current processes break and redesign them: bring-up sequencing, debug forums, regression frameworks, and the lab metrics that tell us whether we are actually improving.

What we need to see:

• BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience), plus 5+ years in silicon bring-up, validation, debug, or productization.
• Deep fundamentals across digital development, microarchitecture, timing, clocking, power, noise, and control systems — and the ability to reason across the HW/SW boundary under real lab constraints.
• Hands‑on lab proficiency: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, and the instinct to know which instrument answers which question during a bring‑up.
• Strong programming and scripting proficiency: Python, C/C++; experience building lab automation or test infrastructure that other specialists adopt and depend on — not just personal scripts.
• Proficiency in the use of AI tools to accelerate silicon validation work — automated analysis of bring‑up logs, regression data, or lab instrumentation output; anomaly detection on silicon measurement datasets; or LLM‑assisted debug triage. We want to understand what you built, how you validated its trustworthiness, and where you decided the measurement had to stay manual.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Hardware proof of crafting: debug infrastructure you built in the lab, characterization methodologies adopted across programs, build DFT feature specs or in‑system test suites you developed, or margin test flows that caught issues before production.
• Proficiency in bring‑up experience with GPU/SoC architecture
• Experience crafting or scaling in‑system test and DFT features for production silicon, with familiarity with fault models, DPPM, and RAS.
• Build concrete examples of redesigning how a team debugs in the lab — faster triage, smarter hypothesis trees, automated measurement reporting — and the resulting increase in bring‑up velocity or quality.

Our team is at the forefront of innovation in silicon co‑design, contributing to the development of groundbreaking technologies. We offer a dynamic work environment where your contributions will directly impact the company's success. Join us to advance your career in a role where you can truly make a difference. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers.

Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family www.nvidiabenefits.com/

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 24, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.