Senior Speed Characterization Engineer - Silicon Co-Design Group

Santa Clara, CA · full time · Senior

$136,000 – $264,500

Listed on NVIDIA’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role owns silicon speed characterization and validation for NVIDIA's AI processors, from first power-on through production. You'll close the gap between pre-silicon predictions and measured silicon performance, trace frequency failures to their root cause, build AI-driven test automation, and provide the data that settles architectural tradeoffs across the company.

Our summary, not NVIDIA’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience
5+ years hands-on silicon experience: bring-up, post-silicon speed validation, frequency characterization, or timing analysis
Computer architecture fundamentals including pipeline structures, clocking, and memory hierarchies
Depth in static timing analysis and critical path identification
Proficiency in silicon margining, guard-banding, and PVT/binning dependencies
Scripting proficiency in Python, Perl, or C/C++

Nice to have

Closed the prediction-to-silicon loop with a correlation methodology that other teams adopted
Traced a frequency miss to a specific critical path or process corner and driven the fix through
Built or deployed AI-driven flows for characterization or analysis with documented guardrails
Background in datacenter-scale or high-performance silicon