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Senior Silicon Power, Thermal Validation and Methodology Engineer

NVIDIA

Location

Santa Clara, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

8/7/2026

Compensation

$168,000 - $310,500 per year

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Job description

The role is focused on leading power and thermal productization strategies within NVIDIA's Silicon Design for Productization Team. This team addresses complex challenges at the intersection of architecture, silicon, firmware, and software. The engineer will utilize AI and sound judgment to improve methodologies and workflows for silicon characterization and validation. The position requires a strong technical background and the ability to drive multi-functional decisions in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

  • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of proven track record in post-silicon bring-up and validation of power and thermal features on sophisticated ASIC or SoC programs.
  • Strong end-to-end understanding of silicon behavior across architecture, firmware, validation, and platform interactions, with expertise in power and thermal domains.
  • Evidence of creating/improving characterization docs, debug tools, dashboards, or other reviewable technical artifacts.
  • Demonstrated ability to make sound tradeoff decisions across power, thermal, performance, firmware, design, validation, and schedule constraints.
  • Shown experience building or applying AI-enabled workflows for silicon characterization or validation, with measurable workflow impact.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the effort across multi-functional teams to keep the program’s power and thermal productization strategy clear, executable, and on track.
  • Create methodology and silicon test plan based controller designs and architecture, including characterization process, debug tools, fuse/firmware settings and lab requirements.
  • Drive resolution for challenging silicon issues through structured hypotheses, measurement plans, and root-cause closure.
  • Steward the Power and Thermal playbook when the existing productization methodology does not fit the problem, creating new mitigations and assembling them as reusable methods.
  • Build AI-enabled workflows to automate data analysis, metric extraction, trend checks, and report generation across multiple bringups to improve, leverage, and shorten time to market.
  • Serve as a key technical owner for multi-functional decisions, issues, and tradeoffs related to feature bring-up.

Benefits

  • Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.

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