System Characterization Engineer Jobs

Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA is an industry leader with groundbreaking developments in High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars.

We are now looking for a System Characterization Engineer, to join the Data Center Systems Validation Engineering Group. Working in the team, you will be responsible for developing our datacenter characterization strategy. You will work as part of a team with board design, circuit design, architects, system & silicon validation and other partners to ensure successful product development with daring product cycles. The qualified candidate should be familiar in a lab environment, and should demonstrate a passion towards creation, execution and improvement of plans that help bring products to market at the speed-of-light.

What You'll Be Doing

• Perform system level margin analysis and correlate results across different engineering groups. Scope dashboards metric and reporting schemes. Perform or drive root cause analysis activity on outliers and issues through system or silicon level experiments.
• Characterize system level performance indicators using a mix of benchmarks and practical applications
• Combine System Engineering Sensibilities and Knowledge of Silicon Characterization and Operations to build a manufacturing to field system characterization strategy.
• Leverage different silicon and system-level telemetries and other data to identify baselines and drive experiments and analysis to understand outliers.
• Define and drive data and reporting requirements with architecture, design, manufacturing, reliability, application engineering and validation teams. Develop packages and procedures that enable other teams contribute to the wider data sets.

What We Need To See

• Strong problem solving, debugging, analysis and logical reasoning skills with examples to prove it.
• Basic scripting skills (Python, Perl & Shell) to develop tools as needed.
• Deep knowledge in either system or silicon: Characterization, Validation, and Manufacturing.
• Previous experience developing Fmax and Vmin guard bands.
• 10+ yrs of relevant proven experience.
• BS or MS degree in EE/CE or equivalent experience.
• Experience running datacenter applications and exercisers.
• Knowledge of out-of-band system management

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Experience with semiconductor fabrication and reliability
• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with benchmarking
• Knowledge of system RAS engineering
• Be a team-player who is ready to work with global teams from diverse cultural backgrounds in a high energy environment.
• Knowledge of PLLs/DLLs, Voltage Regulators, and Power Management Techniques
• Experience with data visualization and interpretation

Our technology has no boundaries! NVIDIA is building groundbreaking innovative compute platforms for the world to use. It’s because of our work that scientists, researchers and engineers can advance their ideas. At its core, our visual computing technology not only enables an outstanding computing experience, it is energy efficient! We pioneered a supercharged form of computing loved by the most fast paced computer users in the world - scientists, designers, artists, and gamers.

The base salary range is $180,000 - $339,250. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.