Senior Io Validation Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

This role is for a Senior IO Validation Engineer at NVIDIA, focusing on the design, power optimization, and validation of high-speed interconnects like NVLink and NVLink-C2C. The engineer will contribute to next-generation products impacting AI, graphics, and autonomous driving, requiring strong EE fundamentals and experience in HSIO development and validation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to design of next generation of high-speed IOs, including NVLink and NVLink-C2C.
  2. Responsible for IO power optimizations and continuing to push energy efficiency.
  3. Ensure interoperability with connected devices and system components in complex interconnect topologies
  4. Deep dive into technically challenging HSIO bugs and help drive debug efforts across various teams
  5. Work closely with other engineering teams such as system architects, mixed signal and design, DGX, software/firmware, HW/SW QA, operations and AE teams to drive design, development, debug and release of next generations products.

Skills

Required

  • BS or MS degree in EE/CE or equivalent experience
  • Effective in a collaborative environment.
  • 8+ years working in HSIO development, bringup planning, HSIO functional and electrical validation, and/or power optimization
  • 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.
  • Identifying full chip data paths for HSIO saturation and working with applications to stress test for stability, perf, and power.
  • System level and interconnect power management optimizations
  • Experience with large scale Data Center topologies across hosts, switches, retimers and end points.
  • Understanding of firmware/driver structures and their interaction with HW.
  • Strong EE fundamentals, knowledgeable in computer architecture, high speed interfaces, timing analysis, process variations, statistical error rates and power analysis.

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years working in HSIO development, bringup planning, HSIO functional and electrical validation, and/or power optimization