Silicon Co-Design Engineer — New Grad (Validation & Power)

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 219,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a qualified candidate to join the Silicon Co-design Engineering Team, responsible for productizing NVIDIA's chips into groundbreaking solutions. The role is lab-oriented and focuses on characterizing pre-production silicon, validating features, and refining designs post-silicon.

You will analyze workloads such as DL/AI, AAA games, Adobe Suite and Video Conferencing to drive energy efficiency, and you will design or commission tools for automated data collection and results

Qualifications

• Completing a BS, MS or PhD degree in EE, CE, Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Problem solving, debugging, analysis and logical reasoning skills with examples to prove it.
• Understanding of digital design, circuit analysis, algorithms, computer architecture, BIOS, drivers, and software applications.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of Python, JavaScript, C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement methodologies to characterize silicon and validate system features on pre-production silicon.
• Drive root-causes analysis efforts of hardware failures through lab experimentation and collaboration with other teams within NVIDIA.
• Find innovative solutions to sophisticated silicon and system level problems to productize silicon and refine future designs to fine-tune architected features post-silicon.
• Analyze workloads like DL/AI, AAA games, Adobe Suite, and Video Conferencing to understand how we can push market leading energy efficiency.
• Characterize pre-production silicon fabricated using innovative processes for speed, performance, power, yield, and quality to draw correlation to design.
• Design or commission tools on evaluation platforms to automate and optimize characterization, data collection, test case execution, and results analysis.
• Analyze workloads to achieve best‑in‑class energy efficiency and evaluate the return and investment of new techniques and features, including use case benefit and design‑for‑productization.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

C/C++

Education

BS/MS/PhD in EE/CE/Systems Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a qualified candidate to join the Silicon Co-design Engineering Team, responsible for productizing NVIDIA's chips into groundbreaking solutions. The role is lab-oriented and focuses on characterizing pre-production silicon, validating features, and refining designs post-silicon.

You will analyze workloads such as DL/AI, AAA games, Adobe Suite and Video Conferencing to drive energy efficiency, and you will design or commission tools for automated data collection and results