Emulation Engineer
OpenAI
Python
Senior Circuit Characterization Engineer
NVIDIA
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $136,000 - $264,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Participate in silicon bringup & post-silicon characterization to optimize performance, power, yield, and quality.
- Build methodologies to characterize Analog, digital and Mixed Signal circuits and silicon features; correlate silicon behavior with simulations.
- Design tools to improve execution efficiency and support multiple products concurrently.
- Find creative solutions to complex silicon and system level problems and lead show-stopper bug resolution to enable product shipment.
- Work closely with other engineering teams to determine coverage needs and constraints.
- Drive design improvements for future products based on lab findings.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers and interns; execute silicon validation plans in lab environments.
Requirements
- BS or MS degree in EE/CE or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in silicon bring-up and post silicon validation activities.
- Excellent problem solving, collaborative, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience working with offshore teams preferred.
- Knowledge of chip and board level dI/dt analysis/mitigation techniques and board PDN design background.
- Hands-on experience with silicon bringup, frequency and power characterization, Tester to System correlation, lab equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, DAQ, Spectrum Analyzers).
- Deep understanding of product binning methods, optimization techniques, methods, trade-off analysis and tools for data analysis and statistics.
- Exposure to critical path analysis, power analysis, process technologies, transistor/device physics, silicon reliability and aging mechanisms.
- Familiarity with Python, C/C++, tool and script development.
- Background with power supply and substrate noise analysis and mitigation.
- Exposure to digital design, circuit analysis, computer architecture, BIOS, drivers, and software applications.
- Ability to lead and mentor junior engineers and interns.
