Hardware Validation Engineer

NVIDIA is seeking a Hardware Validation Engineer for their Datacenter Systems Engineering team. This role involves working closely with board designers, Silicon Solutions, and AE teams to validate and characterize system's power management controllers of NVIDIA's datacenter modules. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, comfortable in a lab environment, and passionate about product system level validation. Strong debug/circuit analysis fundamentals and automation/scripting experience are required.

Responsibilities include:

• Completing validation plans for GPU and CPU modules, and other peripheral cards for NVIDIA's datacenter products
• Electrical and functional validation of power sensors, MCU, I2C, SPI, SMBUS, and PCIe interfaces
• Developing test plans for new features and improving existing plans
• Collaborating with multi-functional teams to debug and resolve HW/SW product issues
• Developing and maintaining automated test scripts to improve validation speed and efficiency

Requirements:

• BSEE/BSCE or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of hands-on hardware/software debug experience
• Strong understanding of digital design, circuit design analysis, and computer architecture
• Programming skills with experience in Python or other scripting languages
• Hands-on lab experience with board bringup, lab debug, and lab tools
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with system power management validation of CPU/GPU products
• Experience with BMC, server management processors
• DC/DC voltage regulator validation experience

NVIDIA offers a competitive base salary range of $104,000 - $247,250 USD, along with equity and comprehensive benefits. The company values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive work environment.