Silicon Co-Design Engineer: Validation & Innovation

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

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking candidates for silicon validation in its Silicon Co-design Engineering Team. The role focuses on characterizing pre-production silicon, performing root-cause analyses of hardware failures, and developing tools to automate data collection and testing.

Strong skills in Python, JavaScript, and C/C++ are required. The base salary varies by level (Level 2: 116,000–189,750 USD; Level 3: 136,000–218,500 USD) with eligibility for equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in EE, CE, or Systems Engineering required.
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, and 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 Corporation is seeking candidates for silicon validation in its Silicon Co-design Engineering Team. The role focuses on characterizing pre-production silicon, performing root-cause analyses of hardware failures, and developing tools to automate data collection and testing.

Strong skills in Python, JavaScript, and C/C++ are required. The base salary varies by level (Level 2: 116,000–189,750 USD; Level 3: 136,000–218,500 USD) with eligibility for equity and benefits.