Senior Signal and Power Integrity Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Senior Signal and Power Integrity Engineer at NVIDIA, focusing on board/system SI design, simulation, and analysis for high-speed interfaces. Requires BS/MS in EE with 4+ years of SI/PI experience and proficiency in simulation tools and PCB design.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead board/system SI design activities, PCB stack up design, material selection, design guide implementation, layout review, and post-layout analysis.
  2. System-level signal integrity simulation of PCIE, LPDDR/DDR/GDDR, MIPI, HDMI, USB and other interfaces.
  3. Analyze and optimize Power delivery network (PDN) on PCBs.
  4. Work closely with Package and PCB Design teams crafting solutions for system SI/PI performance.
  5. Work with Application Engineering supporting customer board designs.

Skills

Required

  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)
  • 4+ years of experience as a SI/PI engineer
  • Electromagnetics
  • Channel components
  • Transmission line theory
  • High speed electrical interfaces (PCIE, LPDDR/DDR/GDDR, MIPI, HDMI, USB)
  • HFSS, Sigrity, Hspice or similar industry standard simulation tools
  • Cadence Allegro PCB designer and Constraints Manager
  • PCB stack up designer tools
  • High-volume PCB manufacturing impacts on channel signal integrity

Nice to have

  • Expertise in high-speed interface SI/PI designs on industry standard system platforms
  • Package design
  • Interface timing budgets
  • System modeling
  • High-speed transmitter, receiver design
  • Various equalization schemes
  • NRZ, PAM4 signaling

What the JD emphasized

  • minimum 4 years of experience as a SI/PI engineer
  • Good understanding of electromagnetics, channel components and transmission line theory
  • Experience with design and implementation of one or more high speed electrical interfaces, such as PCIE, LPDDR/DDR/GDDR, MIPI, HDMI, USB etc.
  • Hands on experience with HFSS, Sigrity, Hspice or similar industry standard simulation tools
  • Experienced with Cadence Allegro PCB designer and Constraints Manager and or other PCB stack up designer tools.
  • Understanding of impacts of high-volume PCB manufacturing on channel signal integrity