Principal Silicon Circuits System Design Engineer

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 368,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Product Definition Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in optimizing groundbreaking products. Collaborate with multi-functional teams to evaluate and enhance pre-production silicon, ensuring top-notch performance and quality. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of technology, driving innovations in AI and high-performance computing. If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a dynamic environment, this is the perfect chance to contribute to industry-defining solutions and help shape the future of technology.

Benefits

Equity

Diverse work environment

Ongoing applications accepted

Qualifications

• 15+ years in EE, CE, CS, or similar with hardware engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with silicon bringup and characterization.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate pre-production silicon for performance and quality optimization.
• Design next-gen product features and tools for automation.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Collaborative skills

Interpersonal skills

Board PDN design knowledge

Silicon bringup experience

Frequency and power characterization

Data analysis and statistics

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

DAQ

Perl

C/C++

Windows OS

Linux OS

Job description

As one of the technology industry's most desirable employers, NVIDIA is an industry leader in high-performance computing, gaming, and AI. NVIDIA's GPUs and SOCs are outstanding in performance and efficiency, and we are continually innovating in creative ways to deliver outstanding solutions in a wide range of sectors. We seek Product Definition Engineers who are passionate about what they do and committed to making a difference in the world through their inventions.

As part of the Silicon Solutions Team, we architect and deliver groundbreaking solutions for productizing NVIDIA's chips into consumer, professional, server, mobile, and automotive markets!

What you will be doing:

• You will evaluate and work with pre-production silicon in brand-new process technologies to characterize and optimize performance, power, yield, and quality for groundbreaking products.
• Build pre and post-silicon methodologies to productize Analog, digital, and Mixed-Signal circuits and silicon features, correlate silicon behavior with simulations, and provide design feedback.
• Driving new feature initiatives across multiple business units, converting chip and board level dI/dt analysis/mitigation techniques and board PDN design knowledge to hardware features, design requirements, silicon characterization needs, and test requirements.
• Design essential next-generation product features that are vital for performance, power optimization, and management techniques from feature definition to production, working with multi-functional teams.
• Design tools to automate product definitions, data collection, test case execution, and results analysis.
• Find creative solutions to complex silicon and system-level problems and be on the frontline to lead show-stopper bugs to enable product shipment.
• Work alongside system architects, chip and board designers, software/firmware engineers, HW/SW applications engineering, process/reliability specialists, ATE engineers, product managers, sales, and operations in a multifaceted, high-energy work environment to bring industry-defining products to market.

What we need to see:

• BS (or equivalent experience) with 15+ years or MS with 13+ years experience in EE, CE, CS, Systems Engineering, or similar and experience in a related hardware engineering position.
• Excellent problem-solving, collaborative, and interpersonal skills. Experience working with offshore teams preferred.
• A background in board PDN design and in-depth knowledge of chip—and board-level dI/dt analysis/mitigation techniques are helpful.
• Hands-on experience with silicon bringup, frequency and power characterization, Tester System correlation, and lab tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, DAQ).
• Exposure to product binning methods, optimization techniques, methods, trade-off analysis, and tools for data analysis and statistics.
• Exposure to critical path analysis, power analysis, process technologies, transistor/device physics, silicon reliability, and aging mechanisms.
• Familiarity with Perl, C/C++, tool and script development, Windows and Linux OS is a plus.
• Background with power supply and substrate noise analysis and mitigation.
• Exposure to digital design, circuit analysis, computer architecture, BIOS, drivers, and software applications.

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization. Our invention, the GPU, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions, from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

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The base salary range is 232,000 USD - 368,000 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

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.