NVIDIA

Technology

HardwareValidationEngineer

$168–311k Santa Clara, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Hardware Validation Engineer at NVIDIA. Skills: Silicon validation, Platform validation, Platform design, HSIOs, PCIE, chip-to-chip interconnects, Data Center topologies. Capture, interpret, and refine bring‑up platform requirements. Drive alignment and reviews with the platform design team”

Industry & Context.

Technology

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

BS or MS degree in EE/CE or equivalent experience, 8+ years working in silicon bringup, platform validation, or platform design, Working experience in a few of the following areas: HSIOs like PCIE or chip-to-chip interconnects including understanding of process/temp/voltage sensitivity on BER, Broad exposure to a few silicon validation and bringup stages - eg: system integration testing, speed char, noise char, feature tuning, electrical validation, thermal / power controller tuning, PVT testing, HTOL, SLT, PCB design and/or layout, Experience with large scale Data Center topologies across hosts, switches, retimers and end points, EE fundamentals, knowledgeable in computer architecture, high speed interfaces, timing analysis, process variations, statistical error rates and power analysis

Nice to Have

Knowledgeable in computer architecture, Knowledgeable in high speed interfaces, Knowledgeable in timing analysis, Knowledgeable in process variations, Knowledgeable in statistical error rates, Knowledgeable in power analysis

What You'll Do.

and refine bring‑up platform requirements

Drive alignment and reviews with the platform design team

Shape validation platforms that support product lines spanning artificial intelligence

and other cutting‑edge technologies

Create and own methodology for deriving baseline requirements for validation platforms

Collaborate with cross‑functional silicon validation teams to understand justification

and design constraints

and reflect them in platform requirements

Ensure the bring‑up platform is fully compatible with required thermal solutions

power‑delivery configurations

and platform peripherals

Maintain the Engineering Requirements Document (ERD) to capture and track validation platform requirements across datacenter

and embedded programs

Serve as the primary interface between silicon validation teams and platform design teams

driving alignment on requirements and final implementation

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with silicon validation teams; Collaborate with cross‑functional silicon validation teams; Primary interface between silicon validation teams and platform design teams, driving alignment on requirements and final implementation

Process & Methodology

Own methodology for deriving baseline requirements, Maintain the Engineering Requirements Document (ERD) to capture and track validation platform requirements

Full Job Description

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to resolve, that only we can seek, and that matter to the world. This is our life’s work, to amplify human inventiveness and intelligence. NVIDIA’s System Co-Design Group (SCG) team is seeking a versatile engineer to be part of a Silicon Hardware team. You will partner with silicon validation teams to capture, interpret, and refine bring‑up platform requirements, then drive alignment and reviews with the platform design team. In this role, you will shape validation platforms that support product lines spanning artificial intelligence, consumer graphics, self‑driving cars, and other cutting‑edge technologies. **What you’ll be doing:** * Create and own methodology for deriving baseline requirements for validation platforms. * Collaborate with cross‑functional silicon validation teams to understand justification, tradeoffs, and design constraints, and reflect them in platform requirements. * Ensure the bring‑up platform is fully compatible with required thermal solutions, power‑delivery configurations, and platform peripherals. * Maintain the Engineering Requirements Document (ERD) to capture and track validation platform requirements across datacenter, client, automotive, and embedded programs. * Primary interface between silicon validation teams and platform design teams, driving alignment on requirements and final implementation. **What we need to see:** * BS or MS degree in EE/CE or equivalent experience * Effective in a collaborative environment. * 8+ years working in silicon bringup, platform validation, or platform design. * Working experience in a few of the following areas:

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