Senior Post Silicon Feature Development Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Senior Post Silicon Feature Development Engineer at NVIDIA, focusing on system design and semiconductor quality for data center, notebooks, desktops, professional visualization, and automotive products. Responsibilities include lab experimentation, feature development and validation, hardware debug, and production support.

What you'd actually do

  1. Creative Problem Solving – Design workarounds and solutions through lab experimentation.
  2. Develop, prototype, and validate system-level features on existing and new silicon, analyzing return on investment and driving feature bring-up plans.
  3. Lead system design partnering with architecture, software, chip/board designers, ASIC, and operations team.
  4. Lead hardware-side debug efforts to root cause feature bugs, silicon defects, and complex HW/SW interactions.
  5. Develop advanced debug tools and infrastructure to meet aggressive schedules.

Skills

Required

  • system architecture
  • semiconductor bringup
  • Digital design
  • computer architecture
  • power/timing/fault analysis
  • statistics
  • scripting
  • firmware/driver interaction with hardware
  • PVT dependencies
  • binning methodologies
  • VF characterization
  • performance and power management
  • oscilloscopes
  • logic analyzers
  • lab debugging

Nice to have

  • DFT architecture
  • GPU/SoC architecture
  • quality and power management system features
  • validation processes/methodologies
  • fault models
  • DPPM
  • quality metrics
  • RAS

What the JD emphasized

  • 9+ years in system architecture, design, and semiconductor bringup experience.