Silicon Product Definition Engineer

3 Weeks ago • 3 Years + • Research & Development • $108,000 PA - $212,750 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Silicon Product Definition Engineer at NVIDIA, you'll leverage your programming skills to manage and manipulate complex datasets for product evaluations. You'll utilize proprietary software tools to assess performance, power, yield, and quality improvements across NVIDIA's chip family. Responsibilities include identifying performance bottlenecks, driving product customizations, and collaborating with cross-functional teams (system architects, designers, software engineers, etc.) to bring products to market. This role demands expertise in data analysis, silicon validation, and a deep understanding of computer architecture. You'll contribute to the development of groundbreaking technologies in a dynamic, high-energy environment.
Must have:
  • 3+ years experience in product performance and power evaluations
  • Proficiency in Python, Perl, and JMP
  • Experience with data analysis and statistics
  • Knowledge of silicon bringup and validation
  • Understanding of critical path analysis and power/performance analysis
Good to have:
  • Good debugging and analytical skills
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Knowledge of process technologies and transistor physics
  • Familiarity with digital design, circuit analysis, and CPU/GPU/SoC architecture
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • Generous benefits package
  • Equity

Job Details

As one of the technology industry's most desirable employers, NVIDIA is an industry leader in high-performance computing, gaming, and AI. As part of the Silicon Solutions Team, we are seeking a Product Definition Engineer. Our team delivers groundbreaking solutions to productize NVIDIA's chips in consumer, professional, server, mobile, and automotive markets.

What you'll be doing:

  • Demonstrate your programming background to manage & manipulate complex datasets for product evaluations

  • Use our proprietary SW tool infrastructure to assess performance, power, yield, and quality improvements for NVIDIA's family of chips and products.

  • Identify performance and power-limiting constraints and drive product-specific customizations.

  • Collaborate with multi-functional teams to drive silicon and system product features to production.

  • 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 creative, high-energy work environment to bring industry-defining products to market.

What we need to see:

  • BS or MS in EE, CE, CS, Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience

  • Minimum of 3+ years of experience in product performance and power evaluations

  • Experience in Python, Perl, and JMP

  • Experience with data analysis and statistics

  • Exposure to silicon bringup and validation, frequency and power characterization, product analysis, and optimization

  • Knowledge in critical path analysis, power/performance analysis, process technologies, and transistor/device physics

  • Knowledge in digital design, circuit analysis, computer architecture, and CPU/GPU/SoC architecture

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Good debugging and analytical skills

  • Demonstrated ability to stay organized and manage multiple tasks concurrently.

  • Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross-cultural teams and work in a matrix organization.

Our team is at the forefront of innovation in silicon solutions, contributing to the development of groundbreaking technologies. We offer a dynamic work environment where your contributions will directly impact the company's success. Join us to advance your career in a role where you can truly make a difference. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us, and due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you!

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The base salary range is 108,000 USD - 212,750 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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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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