# Senior Circuit Characterization Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Working the Silicon Solutions Engineering Team at NVIDIA, you will be responsible for productizing NVIDIA's chips into groundbreaking consumer, professional, server, mobile, and automotive solutions.

As a Silicon Circuit Characterization engineer for NVIDIA's family of chips and products, you will participate in silicon bringup & post-silicon characterization of new silicon to optimize performance, power, yield, and quality to define the world’s fastest products.

Build methodologies to characterize Analog, digital and Mixed Signal circuits, silicon features, correlate silicon behavior with simulations.

Design tools to improve execution efficiency to facilitate the ability to work simultaneously on multiple products.

Find creative solutions to complex silicon and system level problems and be on the frontline to lead show-stopper bugs, in order to enable product shipment.

Work closely with other engineering teams to determine coverage needs and constraints.

Drive design improvements for future product based on what is found in the lab.

Lead and Mentor Junior Engineers and Interns.

## Skills

### Required
- silicon bringup
- post-silicon validation
- Analog and digital circuit characterization
- Mixed Signal circuits
- silicon feature correlation
- simulation
- Python
- C/C++
- power supply and substrate noise analysis

### Nice to have
- chip and board level dI/dt analysis/mitigation techniques
- board PDN design background
- lab equipment
- oscilloscopes
- multimeters
- DAQ
- Spectrum Analyzers
- product binning methods
- optimization techniques
- trade-off analysis
- tools for data analysis and statistics
- critical path analysis
- power analysis
- process technologies
- transistor/device physics
- silicon reliability and aging mechanisms

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