HSIO Validation Lead

What You’ll Be Doing

• Drive the planning and execution of PCIe/NVLINK/C2C or similar HSIO interfaces across functional bring‑up, system‑level validation, productization, and troubleshooting for NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, and SOCs.
• Drive schedule, programming guides, customer critical issues, manufacturing yield improvements, and design feedback. Investigate technically complicated HSIO bugs and help drive debug efforts across various teams.
• Coordinate with logic design, circuit design, board design, simulation, diagnostics, ATE, firmware, driver, and marketing teams to bring the chip into production.
• Develop new methodologies to improve the silicon validation process, helping meet upcoming industry standards for performance, adaptability, and safety.
• Ensure interoperability with connected devices and system components in sophisticated interconnect topologies.
• Engage proactively with multi‑functional engineering teams—including system architects, mixed‑signal design, DGX, software/firmware, hardware/software quality assurance, operations, and application engineering—to facilitate the design, development, troubleshooting, and release of upcoming products.

• BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience) and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• In-depth understanding of PCIe (or similar) protocol and characterization/validation methods in a post‑silicon environment.
• Excellent knowledge of signal integrity concepts, silicon characteristics, and high‑speed/SERDES functional validation.
• Good knowledge of lab equipment (DSOs, BERT, protocol/logic analyzers) and hands‑on post‑Si bring‑up, functional validation of HSIO interfaces.
• Understanding of firmware/driver structures and their interaction with hardware.
• Strong in scripting languages (Perl, Python) to write direct test/debug programs for stress and failure analysis.
• Strong project management, collaboration, and communication skills.

Base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD – 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD – 310,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.