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Hardware Validation Engineer

NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA On-site mid full-time

Salary

108,000 USD – 184,000 USD for Level 2 per year

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Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Hardware Validation Engineer to join the System Product Team (SPT). As a Hardware Validation Engineer, you will be responsible for validating hardware, bringing up new systems in the lab, pushing them to their limits, finding issues, and driving every issue to a fix.

Responsibilities:

  • Own validation: a module, board section or small product, partnering with the Lead Validation Engineer from first power-on to mass production
  • Debug and root-cause: board, firmware and system issues from bring-up through production
  • Power validation: sequencing, load, transient and protection testing
  • High-speed interfaces: PCIe, Ethernet and USB, using high-bandwidth scopes, TDR and protocol analyzers
  • System stress testing: thermal, power, IO, memory and voltage/frequency corners to expose marginal failures
  • Design review: schematics, layouts, BOMs and datasheets
  • NPI and production support: builds and debug at manufacturing sites
  • Cross-functional and software work: partner with mechanical, design, industrial design, thermal, shock and vibration, EMI/EMC, software teams, plus JDM partners, vendors and teams in Asia and Europe

Requirements:

  • BS or MS in EE/CE or equivalent experience, plus 2+ years of hands-on board or system hardware validation, bring-up or debug
  • EE fundamentals: very strong circuit analysis, digital design, transmission lines and power supplies
  • Core validation: Strong hands-on experience in one or more areas such as power validation, high-speed IO validation, Low-speed IO
  • Lab skills: hands-on with oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, DMMs, TDR and logic/protocol analyzers
  • Design skills: working knowledge of schematics, PCB layout and BOM
  • Debug skills: root-cause failures across board, firmware and software using measurements and first-principles reasoning
  • Software skills: scripting or programming (Python or C/C++), comfortable in Linux and Windows
  • Soft skills and passion: quick learner and clear communicator across teams, JDM partners, vendors and time zones

Benefits:

  • Highly competitive salaries
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Equity and benefits

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Skills

Required

  • circuit analysis
  • digital design
  • transmission lines
  • power supplies
  • oscilloscopes
  • electronic loads
  • DMMs
  • TDR
  • logic/protocol analyzers
  • schematics
  • PCB layout
  • BOM
  • Python
  • C/C++
  • Linux
  • Windows

Nice to have

  • multi-phase VR design validation
  • PDN characterization
  • high-speed IO electrical validation
  • eye diagram
  • compliance test
  • BERT
  • PCIe link training
  • DDR
  • automation and firmware
  • BMC/manageability
  • firmware debug
  • factory build or NPI support
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