Silicon Product Definition Lead — Performance & Power

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

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a seasoned silicon product-definition specialist in Santa Clara to own performance, power, yield, and quality analyses across GPU/SoC programs. You will isolate frequency-power-thermal constraints and translate findings into silicon, firmware, BIOS, driver, and platform changes while building automated models and workflows.

You will lead cross-functional teams through bring-up to production, assess trade-offs, and communicate clear options to executives.

Qualifications

• Hands-on silicon bring-up and performance-per-watt analysis.
• Experience with post-silicon characterization.
• Strong programming and data-analysis skills with Python and at least one of Perl/SQL/JMP.
• Solid foundation in digital design, circuit analysis, and computer architecture.
• Ability to translate complex silicon signals into actionable options for leadership.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Own product-definition analysis across performance, power, yield, and quality.
• Drive product configurations by translating constraints into silicon, firmware, BIOS, driver changes.
• Build statistical models, automation, and visualization workflows.
• Partner with Tools and Methodology teams to shift data modeling into future programs.
• Lead root-cause closure with multi-functional teams from bring-up through production.
• Evaluate performance-per-watt, TPS and yield trade-offs and drive fixes.
• Translate complex signals into decision-ready options for executives.
• Own BIOS-level VF settings across thermal, power, and frequency domains and drive fixes.

Skills

Python

Perl

SQL

JMP

Statistics

Data manipulation

Digital design

Education

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a seasoned silicon product-definition specialist in Santa Clara to own performance, power, yield, and quality analyses across GPU/SoC programs. You will isolate frequency-power-thermal constraints and translate findings into silicon, firmware, BIOS, driver, and platform changes while building automated models and workflows.

You will lead cross-functional teams through bring-up to production, assess trade-offs, and communicate clear options to executives.