Silicon Validation Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 219,000; Full time

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NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a Silicon Validation Engineer to define validation strategies across complex architectures, from early design to silicon bring-up and production. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, silicon bring-up, and production, shaping how validation is performed for next-generation GPUs and AI accelerators.

You will design system-level validation, build AI-assisted workflows, profile workloads, and deploy scalable telemetry pipelines across

Qualifications

• BS/MS in EE/CE (or equivalent experience)
• 2+ years in silicon bring-up, ASIC validation, or system-level debug
• Grounding in PVT, timing (STA), signal integrity, power, and high-speed IO (PCIe, chip-to-chip)
• Understanding of firmware/driver-hardware interaction
• Experience with data-driven workflows, telemetry, and AI/LLM-assisted development

Responsibilities

• Design system-level validation strategies for complex architectures, corner cases, PVT, large-scale behavior, feature interactions
• Build AI-assisted and data-driven validation workflows that improve coverage, debug turnaround, and efficiency
• Profile real workloads: training, inference, HPC, video, and emerging applications
• Deploy automation and telemetry pipelines that scale across products and teams
• Drive silicon bring-up and root-cause debug with reusable, high-leverage methods

Job description

## Silicon Validation EngineerApply: US, CA, Santa Clara: Full time: Posted Today: JR2022641NVIDIA Silicon Co-design Group is seeking a versatile engineer to join the HW ArchDev Methodology team. SCG operates across the full product lifecycle—from early architecture definition through silicon bring-up to production—providing a unique end-to-end perspective on next-generation systemsYou define how validation is done. Not how it's been done, how it should be done, for chips that don't exist yet. NVIDIA's HW ArchDev Methodology team sits at a rare intersection: architecture, silicon bring-up, and production, all in one group. We build the validation strategies, automation frameworks, and telemetry systems that determine whether next-generation GPUs and AI accelerators ship on time and at quality. The problems are novel. The stakes are real.**What you’ll be doing:*** Design system-level validation strategies for complex architectures, corner cases, PVT, large-scale behavior, feature interactions* Build AI-assisted and data-driven validation workflows that improve coverage, debug turnaround, and efficiency* Profile real workloads: training, inference, HPC, video, and emerging applications* Deploy automation and telemetry pipelines that scale across products and teams* Drive silicon bring-up and root-cause debug with reusable, high-leverage methods**What we need to see:*** BS/MS in EE/CE (or equivalent experience)* 2+ years in silicon bring-up, ASIC validation, or system-level debug* Grounding in PVT, timing (STA), signal integrity, power, and high-speed IO (PCIe, chip-to-chip)* Understanding of firmware/driver-hardware interaction* Experience or curiosity around data-driven workflows, telemetry, and AI/LLM-assisted development* Thrive in a collaborative environment.**Ways to Stand Out from the crowd:*** You've applied AI/ML or LLMs to validation, debug automation, or workload analysis, not just mentioned it* You've built infrastructure others still use: pipelines, observability systems, debug tools* You have artifacts: postmortems, test methods, tools, papers, or dashboards that show how you think* You've driven cross-functional work across architecture, firmware, validation, and manufacturingIf you've ever looked at a validation process and redesigned it from first principles, we want to talk!#LI-HybridYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 116,000 USD - 189,750 USD for Level 2, and 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 14, 2026.