Senior Silicon Energy Efficiency Engineer

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 311,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a versatile engineer to join the HW ArchDev team, focusing on energy efficiency across product lineups. This role involves interpreting energy specifications, creating compliance flows, and collaborating with various teams to ensure performance standards are met. Candidates should have substantial experience in silicon power features and analysis for data center applications.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous benefits package

Equity eligibility

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience in silicon power sensitivity, platform component losses, and energy efficiency.
• 8+ years in energy efficiency, data center analysis, and silicon validation.

Responsibilities

• Translate product energy efficiency requirements into engineering specs.
• Ensure new products meet energy efficiency standards.
• Review power and performance data and resolve discrepancies.

Skills

Collaboration

Silicon active and low power features

Data center use case analysis

Energy efficiency

Power/Perf validation and debug

Education

BS or MS degree in EE/CE

Job description

NVIDIA Silicon Solutions Group is seeking a versatile engineer to be part of the HW ArchDev team. The SSG team is uniquely positioned to have an end-to-end view of the product development cycle - from early arch definition, through bringup, to product release.

Our ArchDev arm is a hub for all silicon and system level feature development, cost-benefit analysis, system integration solutions, and system POR alignment. As a member of this team, you will be responsible for ensuring external energy efficiency requirements are met across our various product lineups.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Interpreting and translating product level energy efficiency requirements into silicon engineering specs.

• Ensuring that new products have a path to meet and exceed the requirements

• Creating and maintaining pre and post silicon flows to track compliance of the energy efficiency requirements.

• Reviewing post-silicon power and perf data, driving miscorrelations to closure.

• For any products that miss engineering specs, evaluate and provide options to course correct.

• Aligning various teams on new energy efficient requirements and communicating potential spec violations.

What We Need to See:

• BS or MS degree in EE/CE or equivalent experience

• Effective in a collaborative environment.

• 8+ years of experience in some of the following areas:

  • Strong understanding of silicon active and low power features, binning, PVT power sensitivity, platform component losses

  • Analyzing Data Center and Client use cases with emphasis on silicon idle power, energy efficiency, and sleep power.

  • Power/Perf use case projections, validation and debug on silicon

  • Understanding of MLPerf, CEC, Estar use cases.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We welcome you to join our team with some of the most hard-working people in the world working together to promote rapid growth. Are you passionate about becoming a part of a best-in-class team supporting the latest in GPU and AI technology? If so, we want to hear from you.

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The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 310,500 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.