Senior Design Engineer

NVIDIA

NVIDIA

Design
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago

We are now looking for a Senior Hardware Design Engineer for our Tegra group! NVIDIA is seeking passionate Senior Hardware Design Engineers to architect, design and verify the world’s leading SoC's and GPU's. This position offers the opportunity to have real impact in a multifaceted, technology-focused company impacting product lines ranging from consumer graphics to self-driving cars and the growing field of artificial intelligence. We have crafted an outstanding team of people stretching around the globe, whose mission is to push the frontiers of what is possible today and define the platform for the future of computing. We are a team of hardworking engineers working across the micro-architecture, design, verification, implementation, and post silicon validation of NVIDIA automotive and gaming console chips.

What you’ll be doing:

  • As a key member of the Architecture team, you will be responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of controllers/IPs for a System-on-Chip.

  • Build architectural trade-offs based on features, performance requirements and system limitations.

  • Comfortable working with RTL and debugging tools

  • Work with other architects, platform and software teams to define feature set for future designs.

  • Draft hardware specifications and review with stakeholders, help with customer documentation (as required)

  • Work on SystemC modeling and develop and verify architectural testplans (as applicable)

  • Support post-silicon validation activities working with Silicon characterization and Software teams.

  • Collaborate and coordinate with architects, other designers, pre- and post-silicon verification teams, synthesis, timing and back-end teams to accomplish your tasks.

What we need to see:

  • Master’s Degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or Computer Science

  • 8+ years of meaningful experience in SOC architecture and design experience. Verification experience is a plus.

  • Experience in micro-architecture and RTL development (Verilog), focused on arbiters, scheduling, synchronization & bus protocols, interconnect networks and/or caches.

  • Worked on architecture definitions on clocks, resets, interconnects, IO interfaces.

  • Exposure to Digital systems and VLSI design, Computer Architecture, Computer Arithmetic, CMOS transistors and circuits is required

  • Comfortable in solving the architecture problems from micro-architecture to system level.

  • Good understanding of ASIC design flow

  • Strong interpersonal skills and an excellent teammate


Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Good debugging and analytical skills

  • Ability to multi-task and handle context changes

  • Architecture experience with I/O interfaces

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you are creative, autonomous and love a challenge, we want to hear from you.

The base salary range is 164,000 USD - 304,750 USD. 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 accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

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.