Senior Circuit Characterization Engineer

Job Description

Join NVIDIA's Silicon Solutions Engineering Team to productize NVIDIA's chips into groundbreaking consumer, professional, server, mobile, and automotive solutions.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in EE/CE or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of relevant experience in silicon bring-up and post silicon validation activities
• Excellent problem-solving, collaborative, and interpersonal skills
• Experience working with offshore teams preferred
• Knowledge of chip and board level dI/dt analysis/mitigation techniques and board PDN design background is highly desirable
• Hands-on experience with silicon bringup, frequency and power characterization, Tester to System correlation, lab equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, DAQ, Spectrum Analyzers)
• Deep understanding of 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 Python, C/C++, tool and script development
• Background with power supply and substrate noise analysis and mitigation
• Exposure to digital design, circuit analysis, computer architecture, BIOS, drivers, and software applications

Responsibilities

• Participate in silicon bringup & post-silicon characterization of new silicon to optimize performance, power, yield, and quality
• Build methodologies to characterize Analog, digital and Mixed Signal circuits, silicon features, correlate silicon behavior with simulations
• Design tools to improve execution efficiency to work on multiple products simultaneously
• Find creative solutions to complex silicon and system level problems, lead show-stopper bugs to enable product shipment
• Work closely with other engineering teams to determine coverage needs and constraints
• Drive design improvements for future products based on lab findings
• Lead and Mentor Junior Engineers and Interns

Benefits

• Multiple relocation packages
• Two weeklong shutdowns (mid-summer and year-end) in the US (in addition to PTO)
• 8-week parental leave
• 9 Employee Resource Groups
• Annual bonus offering
• Flexible work arrangements
• Up to 6% 401K matching