Nvidia Senior Systems Prototyping Engineer 

United States, California 

612589207

What you'll be doing:

• Build FPGA prototypes by making RTL FPGA-friendly, partitioning the design and taking it through synthesis and place and route.

• Improve performance of the prototype, analyze timing and generate bit streams.

• Bring up the design on FPGA prototyping platforms and indulge in problem solving.

• Release the prototype to the customers and support them when they face problems.

• You are expected to understand the design and implementation, define the configurations, develop/modify the bringup and testing infrastructure and verify the correctness of the design.

• Understand the system topologies with multiple ASICs to realize the DGX systems on prototyping platforms and emulators

• Good coordination with architects, designers, verification engineers, and SW teams will be needed to accomplish your tasks.

What we need to see:

• BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with 7+ years of experience, or MS with 5+ years of proven experience in FPGA prototyping.

• Good understanding of FPGA prototyping architecture, devices, flows and tools.

• Experience in backend flows of FPGA Prototyping - Synthesis, P&R and Timing closure, with emphasis on Synopsys Protocompiler or Synplify Premier and Xilinx Vivado

• Exposure to ASIC design and verification tools (VCS or equivalent, Verdi, GDB).

• Knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog and digital design concepts.

• Understand the industry standard protocols like PCIe, CXL, NVLINK, USB, CHI and CPU-GPU Coherency

• Good debugging and problem-solving skills.

• Hands on experience with lab FPGA debug methodologies, tools (Identify or ChipScope), and lab debug equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Scripting knowledge (Perl/shell/Tcl) is desired.

• Good documentation, communication and interpersonal skills.

• Experience with memory bring up of Memory (LPDDR5/6, DDR5/6), CXL/PCIE and/or high speed I/F such as USB4/3 is desirable

• Prior experience with hardware emulation or prototyping (Synopsys HAPS, Zebu, Mentor Veloce) of a high-performance processor or SOC is a plus.