Hardware Validation Engineer

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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: 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.
Strong EE fundamentals, knowledgeable in computer architecture, high speed interfaces, timing analysis, process variations, statistical error rates and power analysis.

Responsibilities

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.