Senior Silicon Power, Thermal Validation and Methodology Engineer

Job Title

Senior Silicon Power, Thermal Validation and Methodology Engineer

Role Summary

Lead productization of power and thermal features across ASIC/SoC programs, translating architecture and silicon behavior into executable characterization, validation, and bring-up methodology. Work on the Silicon Design for Productization team within the Silicon Co-Design Group, coordinating across architecture, firmware, validation, and platform teams.

Experience Level

Senior — requires 8+ years of experience in post-silicon bring-up and validation of power and thermal features on complex ASIC or SoC programs.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities focus on methodology, validation, and cross-functional technical leadership for power and thermal productization.

• Lead multi-functional teams to define and execute power and thermal productization strategy.
• Design methodology and silicon test plans for controller architectures, including characterization processes, debug tooling, firmware/fuse settings, and lab requirements.
• Investigate and resolve silicon issues with structured hypotheses, measurement plans, and root-cause analysis.
• Create and maintain the Power & Thermal playbook; develop new mitigations and reusable methods when existing processes do not apply.
• Develop AI-enabled workflows to automate data analysis, metric extraction, trend detection, and report generation to accelerate bring-up and validation.
• Act as a technical owner for cross-functional tradeoffs and decisions related to feature bring-up, performance, reliability, and schedule.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and proven background in silicon power/thermal validation and methodology.

Must-have:

• 8+ years of post-silicon bring-up and validation experience on sophisticated ASIC or SoC programs.
• Deep end-to-end understanding of silicon behavior across architecture, firmware, validation, and platform interactions in power and thermal domains.
• Experience creating or improving characterization documentation, debug tools, dashboards, or other technical artifacts.
• Proven ability to make sound tradeoff decisions across power, thermal, performance, firmware, design, validation, and schedule constraints.
• Experience building or applying AI-enabled workflows for silicon characterization or validation, with measurable impact and appropriate validation guardrails.

Nice-to-have:

• History of building power and thermal methodology, debug frameworks, validation standards, or characterization infrastructure.
• Experience with silicon power measurement, energy-efficiency tuning, characterization infrastructure, or analytics that improved bring-up or signoff workflows.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and communicating risks and recommendations to leadership.

Education Requirements

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related 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.