Nvidia Senior Hardware Validation Engineer 

United States, California 

450983810

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and develop validation plans for GPU and CPU modules, and other peripheral cards that get integrated into NVIDIA's datacenter products.

• Debug, triage issues, perform root cause analysis, verify fixes, define new tests, and improve product test plans.

• Electrical, functional and stress testing of all interfaces such as power monitoring control loop, I2C, SPI, SMBUS, PCIe, and USB.

• Track and coordinate all validation activities from bringup to production release.

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams including designers, Silicon, SW, thermal leads to test and debug any HW/SW product issues.

• Design diagnostic suites test plans for engineering builds.

• Provide schematic and layout reviews on next generation board designs.

What we need to see:

• BSEE/BSCE or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of validation experience

• Strong understanding of digital design, circuit design and analysis, computer architecture and CPU/GPU architecture.

• Validation experience with board bringup, lab debug and lab tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers).

• Programming skills with experience in Python or other scripting languages (such as Perl, Shell).

• Experience with ARM CPU architecture and hardware validation.

• Excellent design, debugging and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for action, quality and engineering excellence.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Validation experience with CPU/GPU/SOC products.

• Knowledge of control systems, PID tunings and power transistor fundamentals

• Experience with test automation and developing scripts to improve validation efficiency

• Highly motivated and able to thrive in a fast pace environment.

• Strong interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication.