Signal and Power Integrity Engineer - Hardware

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA +1

NVIDIA is seeking a Signal and Power Integrity Engineer to work on complex system design problems related to high-speed interfaces and components. The role involves modeling, simulation, optimization, and lab measurements to ensure signal integrity in state-of-the-art technology.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work on crafting creative Signal Integrity solutions to complex system design problems.
  2. Modeling and Optimization of vias, connectors, sockets, breakouts and various system components in 3D EM tools.
  3. System-level signal integrity simulations of high-speed NVlink 200Gbs+, USB-4, PCIe5, GDDR6, LP5X and other interfaces.
  4. Constant improvements of SI models using data from lab measurements and/or modelling tool/methodology updates.
  5. Substrate and board layout SI guidelines creation, review and post layout SI extractions.

Skills

Required

  • BS/MS-Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience with minimum 2+ years of industry experience.
  • Strong technical background in applied electromagnetics, transmission line theory and signal processing will be highly valued.
  • SI work on one or more signaling standards like PCI express, USB, SATA, HDMI, HBM, DDR5, GDDR6, LPDDR5X, etc.
  • Hands on use of 3-D modeling tools like ANSYS HFSS/Q3D, 2.5-D with ANSYS SIWAVE or similar and 2D such as Ansys2D.
  • Familiarity with a system level timing or loss budget including silicon, package and board impairments.

Nice to have

  • Background with use of VNA, TDR, DSO, ParBERT and use of tools/applications like ADS, Ansys Designer, JMP, Matlab, Cadence Allegro will be a plus.
  • Experience in SI simulation and verification of test sockets, LGA sockets and mezzanine connectors, and designing channels which include them.
  • Expertise in one or more of the high speed interface SI/PI design on any industry standard system platforms.
  • Experience with lab measurements, debugging, SI lab correlation using oscilloscope/ spectrum analyzer/ VNA.
  • Knowledge of circuit design, board/pkg technology & design, link architecture, timing budget methodologies.
  • Familiarity with PDN evaluation using layout extraction tools for packages and PCBs and spice-based time domain simulations