Verification Engineer, Low Power

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

NVIDIA is seeking a Verification Engineer focused on the low power aspects of their chips. The role involves developing test plans, writing test cases, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the functional, electrical, and performance aspects of low power features are verified, both in pre- and post-silicon stages.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work on structural and functional verification of low power aspects of NVIDIA’s family of chips.
  2. Come up with test plans and coverage plans of these features.
  3. Write test cases, test bench components like assertions and coverage points, and own verification convergence.
  4. Collaborate with system level and unit level teams to cover the features well from functional, electrical, performance, and noise aspects.
  5. Work with architects, designers, pre- and post-silicon verification teams, synthesis, timing and back-end teams to accomplish your tasks.

Skills

Required

  • BS/MS or equivalent experience with specialization related to Low Power techniques and Verification.
  • Fundamental understanding of power basics including transistor-level leakage/dynamic characteristics of VLSI circuits.
  • Knowledge of power intent formats - UPF/CPF.
  • Experience in Static Power check - tools like VCLP/MVRC or similar.
  • Hands-on knowledge in Power aware dynamic verification - NLP/MVSIM or similar tools.
  • Experience in design and verification tools (VCS or equivalent simulation tools, Verdi or other debug tools).
  • Familiarity with low power design techniques such as multi VT, Clock gating, Power gating, and Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling (DVFS).

Nice to have

  • Good software programming skills. Python/Perl/C++ preferred.
  • Confident debugging and problem-solving skills.
  • Good communication skills and ability & desire to work as a great teammate.

What the JD emphasized

  • low power aspects
  • low power features
  • low power design techniques