Skip to main content
CareerApp
NVIDIA

Senior Silicon Power, Thermal Validation and Methodology Engineer

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · Senior

$168,000 – $310,500

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 focuses on developing power and thermal validation methodologies for NVIDIA's silicon products, bridging the gap between architecture concepts and production release. It suits experienced post-silicon engineers who can lead cross-functional teams, create reusable testing frameworks, and apply AI to accelerate validation workflows.

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

Skills this role names

Log in to see which of these are already on your profile.

What they ask for

Required

  • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of post-silicon bring-up and validation on ASIC or SoC programs
  • End-to-end understanding of silicon behavior across architecture, firmware, validation, and platform interactions
  • Experience creating characterization docs, debug tools, dashboards, or technical artifacts
  • Ability to make tradeoff decisions across power, thermal, performance, firmware, design, validation, and schedule
  • Experience building or applying AI-enabled workflows for silicon characterization or validation

Nice to have

  • History of building power and thermal methodology, debug frameworks, or validation standards
  • Experience with silicon power measurement, energy-efficiency tuning, or analytics that improved workflows
  • Comfort working through ambiguity with globally distributed teams
  • Demonstrated silicon-level impact such as faster bring-up or better debug turnaround

Turn on analytics and we load Google Analytics: Google gets the pages you open and what you do here — searches, jobs you view, jobs you apply to — and sets its own cookies. Leave it off and the only cookies we set are your login, your theme, and this answer. Accept All also records a yes to advertising, which nothing uses yet. Privacy Policy.