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Principal Silicon Circuits System Design Engineer

1 Month ago • 13-15 Years • Research & Development • $232,000 PA - $368,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Principal Silicon Circuits System Design Engineer at NVIDIA, you'll work with pre-production silicon to optimize performance, power, yield, and quality. Responsibilities include building pre and post-silicon methodologies for analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits; driving new feature initiatives across business units; designing next-generation product features; and developing automation tools. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring industry-defining products to market, troubleshooting complex silicon and system-level issues. This role requires extensive experience in silicon bring-up, characterization, and testing.
Must have:
  • 13+ years experience in relevant field
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Experience with silicon bring-up
  • Board PDN design knowledge
  • dI/dt analysis/mitigation techniques
Good to have:
  • Experience with offshore teams
  • Perl, C/C++ programming
  • Power supply and substrate noise analysis
  • Digital design and circuit analysis
Perks:
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

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:

  • You will evaluate and work with pre-production silicon in brand-new process technologies to characterize and optimize performance, power, yield, and quality for groundbreaking 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 (or equivalent experience) with 15+ years or MS with 13+ years 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.

  • A background in board PDN design and in-depth knowledge of chip—and board-level dI/dt analysis/mitigation techniques are helpful.

  • 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.

#LI-Hybrid

The base salary range is 232,000 USD - 368,000 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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About The Company

Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.


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