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Senior Silicon Product Definition Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
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Santa Clara, CA$168k - $264.5kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior role in NVIDIA's Silicon Co-Design Group focused on turning silicon and system data into decisions to maximize performance, power efficiency, yield, and quality. Responsible for defining product configurations, identifying constraints, and driving optimization from bring-up through production, using AI-enabled analysis and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Own product-definition analysis across performance, power, yield, and quality, using large silicon datasets to identify product opportunities, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Drive product-specific configurations by isolating frequency- power and thermal-limiting constraints and translating findings into silicon, firmware, BIOS, driver, and platform changes.
  • Build statistical models, automation, and visualization workflows that improve decision quality.
  • Partner with Tools and Methodology teams to left-shift data modeling, test procedures, and closed-loop analysis infrastructure from post-silicon learning into future programs.
  • Lead multi-functional root-cause closure with architecture, design, validation, software/firmware, applications engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams from bring-up through production.
  • Evaluate performance-per-watt, process-voltage-temperature behavior, yield, and quality trade-offs, and drive productized fixes through implementation and confirmation.
  • Translate complex silicon and system signals into crisp, decision-ready options that give executive leadership clarity on product configuration, performance targets, and program-impacting risks.
  • Own and deliver BIOS-level VF settings across thermal, power, and frequency domains — debugging issues and driving fixes through cross functional teams to close on Power, Thermal, Performance, Yield and Quality gaps.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of experience in silicon product definition, post-silicon characterization, product engineering, or performance and power analysis for GPU, CPU, SoC, or other complex silicon products.
  • Hands-on experience with silicon bring-up, performance-per-watt analysis, optimization across process, voltage, and temperature conditions.
  • Strong programming and data-analysis skills using Python and one or more of Perl, JMP, SQL, or equivalent tools, with practical knowledge of statistics and large-dataset manipulation.
  • Strong technical foundation in digital design, circuit analysis, computer architecture, critical-path analysis, process technology, and transistor/device physics.
  • Working knowledge of the system stack, including firmware, BIOS, drivers, operating-system behavior, and software applications that influence silicon performance and power.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive ambiguous technical issues to root-cause closure across globally distributed, multi-functional teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication; able to translate complex technical issues into crisp, decision-ready options for executive leadership.

Skills

Required:PythonData analysisCross-functional leadership
Nice to have:C/firmware

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see company benefits page)
Last updated Sep 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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