Nvidia Senior HSIO Validation Engineer 

United States, California 

548735381

What you'll be doing:

• Drive the planning and execution of NVLINK/C2C or similar interfaces in the areas of functional bring-up, system-level validation, productization and troubleshooting for NVIDIA GPUs and SOCs.

• Drive schedule, programming guides, customer critical issues, manufacturing yield improvements, and design feedback. Investigate technically complicated HSIO bugs and help drive debug efforts across various teams

• Coordinate with logic design, circuit design, board design, Simulation, diagnostics, ATE, firmware, driver, and marketing teams to drive the chip into production.

• Develop new methodologies to improve the silicon validation process, which will help meet upcoming performance, adaptability, and safety industry standards.

• Ensure interoperability with connected devices and system components in sophisticated interconnect topologies.

• Engage proactively with multi-functional engineering teams, including system architects, mixed-signal design, DGX, software/firmware, hardware/software quality assurance, operations, and application engineering to facilitate the design, development, troubleshooting, and release of upcoming products.

What we need to see:

• BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience) and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience

• In depth understanding of PCIe (or similar) protocol andcharacterization/validationmethods in post-silicon environment

• Excellent knowledge of Signal integrity concepts, Silicon characteristics and high speed/SERDES functional validation

• Good knowledge of lab equipment (DSOs, BERT, Protocol/Logic analyzers) and Hands-on Post-Si bring up, functional validation of HSIO interfaces

• Understanding of firmware/driver structures and their interaction with HW.

• Strong in scripting languages (Perl, Python) to write direct test/debug programs for stress and failure analysis

• Strong project management, collaboration, and communication skills