NVIDIA’s System Co-Design Group is hiring a senior engineer to work on its Silicon Hardware team, where you will collaborate closely with silicon validation teams to capture and refine bring-up platform requirements for cutting-edge technologies such as AI, consumer graphics, and autonomous vehicles. Your responsibilities include creating methodologies for deriving baseline requirements, ensuring compatibility with thermal solutions and power configurations, maintaining the Engineering Requirements Document, and serving as a primary interface between validation and design teams. Ideal candidates have an EE/CE degree or equivalent experience, 8+ years in silicon bring-up, platform validation, or design, and expertise in areas like HSIOs, PCB design, large-scale data center topologies, and high-speed interfaces. This role demands strong collaboration skills and a deep understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals to support product lines at the forefront of technological innovation.
Skills
PCIE
chip-to-chip interconnects
BER
system integration testing
speed char
noise char
feature tuning
electrical validation
thermal power controller tuning
PVT testing
HTOL
SLT
PCB design
layout
Data Center topologies
hosts
switches
retimers
end points
computer architecture
high speed interfaces
timing analysis
process variations
statistical error rates
power analysis
What you'll do
Create and own methodology for deriving baseline requirements for validation platforms.
Collaborate with silicon validation teams to capture justification, tradeoffs, and design constraints for platform requirements.
Ensure bring-up platform compatibility with thermal solutions, power-delivery configurations, and peripherals.
Maintain Engineering Requirements Document (ERD) to track validation platform requirements across various programs.
Serve as primary interface between silicon validation and platform design teams, driving alignment on requirements.
What we're looking for
BS or MS degree in EE/CE or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience in silicon bring-up, platform validation, or platform design.
Proven ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
Deep understanding of HSIOs like PCIe and chip-to-chip interconnects.
Experience with PCB design and layout, thermal solutions, power delivery configurations.
Broad exposure to various stages of silicon validation and bring-up processes.
Market check
Salary context
This
$168,000–$264,500
range sits above
83%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$136,000–$218,500
Median floor and ceiling across peers.
Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$144,500–$213,375
Middle half of comparable postings.
Based on 240 comparable postings.*
* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.
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About Nvidia
Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing
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