Senior Systems Validation Engineer, Platform Characterization at Nvidia Corporation in Santa Clara, California

Job Description:

Widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers, NVIDIA is an industry leader with groundbreaking developments in High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. We are now looking for a Senior Systems Validation Engineer ,specializing in characterization, to join the Data Center Systems Validation Engineering Group.

Working in the Systems Validation Engineering team, you will be responsible for characterizing & debug of board and system level datacenter products at NVIDIA. Work as part of a team with board design, circuit design, architects, silicon validation and partners to ensure successful product development with daring product cycles. The qualified candidate should be comfortable in a lab environment and should demonstrate a passion towards creation, execution and improvement of plans that help bring products to market at the speed of light.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading system level electrical characterization of new datacenter products.
  
  


• Developing, improving, and maintaining processes and procedures used to develop guard bands for products and product components.
  
  


• You will work cross functionally with manufacturing, reliability, application engineering and validation teams to build an end to end characterization strategy for future products.
  
  


• Implement margin analysis across the frequency and voltage domains. You will drive debug efforts of FMAX and VMIN time to failure observations with design and systems engineering teams.
  
  


• Perform data analysis, build dashboards metric and reporting schemes. Work with teams to create automation flows for test execution.
  
  

What we need to see:

• BS or MS degree in EE/CE or equivalent experience.
  
  


• 8+ yrs of relevant industry experience.
  
  


• Strong problem solving, debugging, analysis and logical reasoning skills with examples to prove it.
  
  


• Deep knowledge in system characterization techniques, lab testing, and defining equipment needs. Previous experience developing voltage and frequency guard bands.
  
  


• Good knowledge of PLLs/DLLs, Voltage Regulators, and Power Management Techniques
  
  


• Ability to interpret schematics, understanding of PCB layout.
  
  


• Proficient in the usage of electrical measurement tools such as oscilloscopes.
  
  


• Basic scripting skills (Python, Perl & Shell) to develop tools for automation as needed
  
  

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:

• Understanding of ARM architecture
  
  


• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills, with an ability to optimally guide and influence.
  
  


• Be a team-player who is ready to work with global teams from diverse cultural backgrounds a high energy environment.
  
  

Our technology has no boundaries! Nvidia is building groundbreaking state of the art compute platforms for the world to use. It's because of our work that scientists, researchers and engineers can advance their ideas. At its core, our visual computing technology not only enables an amazing computing experience, it is energy efficient! We pioneered a supercharged form of computing loved by the most fast paced computer users in the world - scientists, designers, artists, and gamers.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression , sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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