Senior Silicon Power & Thermal Validation Architect

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

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an experienced Power and Thermal Productization Engineer to drive cross-functional bring-up and validation for complex ASIC/SoC programs in Santa Clara, CA. You will define methodologies, develop test plans, and own AI-driven workflows that speed characterization, debugging, and release decisions.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in post-silicon validation, strong understanding of silicon behavior across architecture, firmware, and platform interactions, and a track

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of proven track record in post-silicon bring-up and validation of power and thermal features on sophisticated ASIC or SoC programs.
• Strong end-to-end understanding of silicon behavior across architecture, firmware, validation, and platform interactions, with expertise in power and thermal domains.
• Evidence of creating/improving characterization docs, debug tools, dashboards, or other reviewable technical artifacts.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound tradeoff decisions across power, thermal, performance, firmware, design, validation, and schedule constraints.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to keep the power and thermal productization strategy clear, executable, and on track.
• Create methodology and silicon test plan based controller designs and architecture, including characterization process, debug tools, fuse/firmware settings and lab requirements.
• Drive resolution for challenging silicon issues through structured hypotheses, measurement plans, and root-cause closure.
• Steward the Power and Thermal playbook when existing productization methodology does not fit the problem, creating new mitigations and reusable methods.
• Build AI-enabled workflows to automate data analysis, metric extraction, trend checks, and report generation across multiple bringups to improve time-to-market.
• Serve as a key technical owner for multi-functional decisions, issues, and tradeoffs related to feature bring-up.

Skills

Power/thermal validation

Post-silicon bring-up

AI-enabled workflows

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Education

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

Debug tooling

Characterization dashboards

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an experienced Power and Thermal Productization Engineer to drive cross-functional bring-up and validation for complex ASIC/SoC programs in Santa Clara, CA. You will define methodologies, develop test plans, and own AI-driven workflows that speed characterization, debugging, and release decisions.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in post-silicon validation, strong understanding of silicon behavior across architecture, firmware, and platform interactions, and a track