Silicon Validation Engineer - AI-Driven, Hybrid, Equity

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Hybrid work

Job summary

The NVIDIA Silicon Co-design Group in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a versatile Silicon Validation Engineer to join the HW ArchDev Methodology team. You will shape validation strategies across architecture, silicon bring-up, and production to ensure GPUs and AI accelerators ship on time and at quality.

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

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 or curiosity around data-driven workflows, telemetry, and AI/LLM-assisted development
• Thrive in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design system-level validation strategies for complex architectures, corner cases, PVT.
• Build AI-assisted and data-driven validation workflows to 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

Skills

Silicon bring-up

ASIC validation

System-level debug

PVT & STA

Firmware interaction

Telemetry & data-driven

AI/LLM in validation

Collaboration

Education

BS/MS in EE/CE

Job description

The NVIDIA Silicon Co-design Group in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a versatile Silicon Validation Engineer to join the HW ArchDev Methodology team. You will shape validation strategies across architecture, silicon bring-up, and production to ensure GPUs and AI accelerators ship on time and at quality.

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