Senior Silicon Product Definition Engineer
NVIDIAJob Title
Senior Silicon Product Definition Engineer
Role Summary
The Senior Silicon Product Definition Engineer defines product configurations and drives optimization from early silicon bring-up through high-volume production. You will analyze large silicon and system datasets to identify performance, power, yield, and quality trade-offs and translate findings into concrete changes across silicon, firmware, BIOS, drivers, and platform.
Experience Level
Senior - typically requires 8+ years of relevant experience in silicon product definition, post-silicon characterization, product engineering, or performance/power analysis for GPUs, CPUs, SoCs, or similar complex silicon.
Responsibilities
Core responsibilities include product-definition, cross-functional coordination, and creating data-driven decision tools.
- Own product-definition analysis across performance, power, yield, and quality using large silicon datasets to surface opportunities, risks, and trade-offs.
- Identify frequency, power, and thermal-limiting constraints and translate findings into silicon, firmware, BIOS, driver, and platform changes.
- Build statistical models, automation, and visualization workflows to improve decision quality and speed.
- Partner with Tools and Methodology teams to shift data modeling and test procedures earlier in programs.
- Lead multi-functional root-cause resolution across architecture, design, validation, software/firmware, applications engineering, manufacturing, and operations from bring-up through production.
- Evaluate performance-per-watt and process-voltage-temperature behavior; drive productized fixes and confirm results.
- Translate complex silicon and system signals into clear, decision-ready recommendations for leadership.
- Own and deliver BIOS-level VF (voltage/frequency) settings and drive cross-functional fixes to close power, thermal, performance, yield, and quality gaps.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and experience; nice-to-have items listed separately.
- 8+ years of experience in silicon product definition, post-silicon characterization, product engineering, or performance and power analysis for GPU, CPU, SoC, or other complex silicon products.
- Hands-on silicon bring-up experience and practical work on performance-per-watt analysis across process, voltage, and temperature conditions.
- Strong programming and data-analysis skills in Python and one or more of Perl, JMP, SQL, or equivalent; practical knowledge of statistics and large-dataset manipulation.
- Technical foundation in digital design, circuit analysis, computer architecture, critical-path analysis, process technology, and transistor/device physics.
- Working knowledge of the system stack: firmware, BIOS, drivers, OS behavior, and software applications that affect silicon performance and power.
- Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous technical issues to root-cause closure across globally distributed, cross-functional teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to present complex technical issues and clear options to executive leadership.
- Nice-to-have: track record shipping product configurations that improved performance/power/yield; experience with advanced process nodes, high-complexity GPUs/CPUs/AI accelerators; experience building reusable methodologies and automation; proficiency using AI productivity tools to accelerate analysis with appropriate guardrails.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems 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.
