Senior System Co-Design Engineer - Speed and Reliability

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Join NVIDIA, a trailblazer at the forefront of graphics and artificial intelligence performance, efficiency, and innovation. From our roots as a groundbreaking graphic company, we have evolved into a global leader in artificial intelligence, continuously pushing the boundaries to tackle complex challenges across diverse industries.

Silicon Solutions Group (SSG) is a multifaceted, multi-functional team at NVIDIA. We sit at the crossroads of design, architecture, marketing, and productization. Our involvement begins at the arch stage and extends to defining final products. We architect and deliver innovative solutions across markets such as Gaming, Data Centers, Servers, Automotive, and Embedded. We are fast-paced and multifaceted, share a sense of humor, and collaborate extensively to push the boundaries of what is possible. We do all of this with an eye on making ground-breaking impacts in our markets. If this sounds like something you want to do, read on. As part of the Silicon Solutions team at NVIDIA, you will be responsible for crafting new features and methodologies to optimize NVIDIA's chips into groundbreaking consumer, professional, server, mobile, and automotive solutions.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Collaborate cross-functionally with system architects, hardware, software/firmware, process/reliability, product, and operations teams to co-design System level Speed Features and deliver industry-defining products.

• Provide system requirements for new hardware and system features affecting Speed and Reliability, from Pre-silicon through productization.

• Translate hardware feature and architecture requirements into effective validation techniques, ensuring coverage across testing flows.

• Correlate silicon behavior against timing simulation and design expectations, providing actionable feedback to improve future designs.

• Define, prototype, and refine pre- and post-silicon bring-up flows to ensure product quality, performance, and schedule efficiency.

• Design and implement automation tools for System Speed Modeling.

• Architect and influence testability features critical to performance, power, and reliability, working closely with design, DFx, and ATE teams.

• Lead debug of complex silicon and system-level issues, including show-stopper defects, to enable on-time product shipment.

What we need to see:

• MS in EE, CE, Systems Engineering (or equivalent experience)

• 4+ years of experience in a related hardware engineering position.

• Previous experience with silicon bringup, frequency and power characterization, PPA in Pre-Silicon or Post-Silicon phases, tester-to-system correlation, JMP or equivalent data analysis tools, and lab tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, DAQ).

• Scripting experience with Perl/ Python. Exposure to Windows, Linux, and Android OS environments.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Some familiarity with statistical methods and tools for data analysis

• A "go-getter, can get it done" attitude and independent 'out-of-the-box' thinking.

Our team is at the forefront of innovation in silicon solutions, contributing to the development of groundbreaking technologies. We offer a dynamic work environment where your contributions will directly impact the company's success. Join us to advance your career in a role where you can truly make a difference. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you!

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until February 23, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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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.