# Hardware Validation Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 108,000 USD – 184,000 USD for Level 2; and 136,000 USD – 212,750 USD for Level 3
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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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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