Security and Safety Circuit Engineer

Job Title

Security and Safety Circuit Engineer

Role Summary

Design and validate system-level security and safety circuits for GPU/SoC silicon. The role focuses on developing pre- and post-silicon characterization, validation methodologies, automation, and cross-functional productization for voltage, clock, power and fault monitors and related features.

Experience Level

Mid-level — typically requires around 5+ years of relevant hardware engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Work across design, validation, and product teams to ensure silicon security and safety features meet functional and production requirements.

• Develop end-to-end pre-silicon and post-silicon validation methodologies and workflows for system-level security and safety circuit characterization.
• Translate new circuit features into productization requirements, validation scope, and signoff criteria.
• Define validation strategies for analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits with focus on bring-up readiness and scalable execution.
• Design and implement tools to automate characterization, test execution, data collection, and result analysis.
• Enable early validation by bringing up flows and tests in pre-silicon on prior-generation platforms.
• Collaborate with architects, chip/board designers, firmware/software, ATE, reliability, and operations to resolve blockers and meet milestones.
• Contribute to technical documentation and promote adoption of improved validation methodologies, including AI-driven approaches.

Requirements

Core technical skills and experience needed for the role.

• Must-have: 5+ years in hardware engineering with experience in silicon security and safety architecture and mixed-signal circuit integration.
• Must-have: Deep understanding of GPU/SoC system-level architecture and silicon bring-up.
• Must-have: Hands-on post-silicon validation and production test experience, including fault handling, reset architecture, fuse/register programming flows, and ATE correlation.
• Must-have: Strong silicon lab skills: frequency and power characterization, correlation, automation scripting, and use of oscilloscopes, probes, and DAQ tools.
• Must-have: Effective cross-functional collaboration and problem-solving skills for post-silicon debug.
• Nice-to-have: Exposure to analog and digital design, circuit analysis, BIOS/drivers, and hardware-software initialization and debug.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with Perl, C/C++, tool/script development, and Windows/Linux lab environments.
• Nice-to-have: Experience applying AI to semiconductor co-design, pre-silicon/FPGA feature validation, RTL design/verification, or working with GPU/CPU/Memory/Analog system features.

Education Requirements

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: NVIDIA

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.