Nvidia Senior Silicon Product Definition Engineer 

United States, California 

483115500

As a product definition engineer for NVIDIA's family of chips and products, you will analyze pre-production silicon in state of the art process technologies for performance, power, yield, and quality to define the world’s fastest products.

Architect crucial next generation product features that are vital for performance, power optimization and management techniques all the way from feature definition to production; working with multi-functional teams.

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

Build pre and post-silicon methodologies to characterize silicon features, correlate silicon behavior with simulations, and provide design feedback.

Find creative solutions to sophisticated silicon and system level problems and be on the frontline to lead show-stopper bugs, in order 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.

BS (or equivalent experience) with 8+ yrs or MS with 6+ yrs 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.

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

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 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.