Senior Silicon Circuits System Design Engineer at Nvidia Corporation in Santa Clara, California

Job Description:

As one of the technology industry's most desirable employers, NVIDIA is an industry leader in high-performance computing, gaming, and AI. NVIDIA's GPUs and SOCs are outstanding in performance and efficiency, and we are continually innovating in creative ways to deliver outstanding solutions in a wide range of sectors. We seek Product Definition Engineers who are passionate about what they do and committed to making a difference in the world through their inventions.

As part of the Silicon Solutions Team, we architect and deliver groundbreaking solutions for productizing NVIDIA's chips into consumer, professional, server, mobile, and automotive markets!

What you will be doing:

• As a Silicon Circuit System design engineer for NVIDIA's family of chips and products, you will evaluate and work with pre-production silicon in state-of-the-art process technologies to characterize and optimize performance, power, yield, and quality to define the world's fastest products.


• Build pre and post-silicon methodologies to productize Analog, digital, and Mixed-Signal circuits and silicon features, correlate silicon behavior with simulations, and provide design feedback.


• Driving new feature initiatives across multiple business units, converting chip and board level dI/dt analysis/mitigation techniques and board PDN design knowledge to hardware features, design requirements, silicon characterization needs, and test requirements.


• Design essential next-generation product features that are vital for performance, power optimization, and management techniques from feature definition to production, working with multi-functional teams.


• Design tools to automate product definitions, data collection, test case execution, and results analysis.


• Find creative solutions to complex silicon and system-level problems and be on the frontline to lead show-stopper bugs to enable product shipment.


• Work alongside system architects, chip and board designers, software/firmware engineers, HW/SW applications engineering, process/reliability specialists, ATE engineers, product managers, sales, and operations, in a multifaceted, high-energy work environment to bring industry-defining products to market.

What we need to see:

• BS with 7+ years or MS with 5+ years experience (or equivalent experience) in EE, CE, CS, Systems Engineering, or similar and experience in a related hardware engineering position.


• Excellent problem-solving, collaborative, and interpersonal skills. Experience working with offshore teams preferred.


• Highly desirable are in-depth knowledge of chip-and board-level dI/dt analysis/mitigation techniques and a background in board PDN design.


• Hands-on experience with silicon bringup, frequency and power characterization, Tester System correlation, and lab tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, DAQ).


• Exposure to product binning methods, optimization techniques, methods, trade-off analysis, and tools for data analysis and statistics.


• Exposure to critical path analysis, power analysis, process technologies, transistor/device physics, silicon reliability, and aging mechanisms.


• Familiarity with Perl, C/C++, tool and script development, Windows and Linux OS is a plus.


• Background with power supply and substrate noise analysis and mitigation.


• Exposure to digital design, circuit analysis, computer architecture, BIOS, drivers, and software applications.

NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization. Our invention, the GPU, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions, from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

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The base salary range is 164,000 USD - 304,750 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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