Nvidia Principal Silicon Circuits System Design Engineer 

United States, California 

515093823

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.