Senior Hardware Validation Engineer Job at NVIDIA in Santa Clara

Senior Hardware Validation Engineer Join NVIDIA's Datacenter Systems Engineering team as a Senior Hardware Validation Engineer. We are looking for an engineer to lead validation activities, working closely with validation engineers, board designers, silicon characterization, and AE teams to ensure product validation and test coverage are optimal. The ideal candidate is self‑motivated, works well with different teams, comfortable in a lab environment, and demonstrates passion toward product‑level validation. They should have strong debug/circuit analysis fundamentals as well as automation and scripting experience, and be capable of thriving in a fast‑paced environment with evolving product definitions. What You’ll Be Doing Design and develop validation plans for GPU and CPU modules, and other peripheral cards that get integrated into NVIDIA's datacenter products. Debug, triage issues, perform root‑cause analysis, verify fixes, define new tests, and improve product test plans. Electrical, functional and stress testing of all interfaces such as power monitoring control loop, I2C, SPI, SMBUS, PCIe, and USB. Track and coordinate all validation activities from bring‑up to production release. Collaborate with multi‑functional teams including designers, silicon, SW, thermal leads to test and debug any HW/SW product issues. Design diagnostic suites test plans for engineering builds. Provide schematic and layout reviews on next generation board designs. What We Need To See BSEE/BSCE or equivalent experience. 5+ years of validation experience. Strong understanding of digital design, circuit design and analysis, computer architecture and CPU/GPU architecture. Validation experience with board bring‑up, lab debug and lab tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers). Programming skills with experience in Python or other scripting languages (such as Perl, Shell). Experience with ARM CPU architecture and hardware validation. Excellent design, debugging and problem‑solving skills, with a strong bias for action, quality and engineering excellence. Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd Validation experience with CPU/GPU/SOC products. Knowledge of control systems, PID tunings and power transistor fundamentals. Experience with test automation and developing scripts to improve validation efficiency. Highly motivated and able to thrive in a fast pace environment. Strong interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $132,000 – $207,000 for Level 3, and $160,000 – $253,000 for Level 4. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 29, 2025. NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate 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. JR1996018 #J-18808-Ljbffr