Senior -Speed IO Validation Engineer

Senior High-Speed IO Validation Engineer at NVIDIA

As a senior engineer, you will lead the full life cycle of HSIO validation for NVIDIA products, collaborating with design, simulation, firmware, marketing, and manufacturing teams to ensure specification compliance and optimal performance.

• Own HSIO (PCIe/NVLink) validation of products from start to finish, including test plan development, automation, design for validation requirements, resource planning, coverage metrics, test execution, bug resolution, and release to production.
• Coordinate with internal and external logic, circuit, board design, simulation, diagnostics, firmware, driver, and marketing teams across different time zones to ensure HSIO subsystem compliance and tuning for optimal workload performance.
• Assist in the bring‑up of new hardware and solve tough system and board level issues with a focus on HSIO at a system level.
• Participate in reviewing board schematics, PCB layouts, and making design and component suggestions.
• Ensure interoperability with connected devices and system components in sophisticated interconnect topologies.
• Solve complex hardware and software HSIO issues at the system level on GPU‑accelerated computing platforms.
• Provide engineering support for manufacturing in both NPI and MP stages of production.

• Ability to work on site in hardware lab environment 5 days a week in HQ.
• BSEE or BSCE or equivalent experience.
• Six or more years of experience in HSIO validation.
• In‑depth understanding of the HSIO protocol (e.g., PCI Express, Infini Band, Ethernet), specification, and operation at a system level.
• Experience operating logic and protocol analyzers and protocol exercisers.
• Good knowledge of lab equipment (DSOs, BERT, protocol/logic analyzers) and hands‑on post‑SI bring‑up, functional validation, debug, and tuning of HSIO interfaces.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in collaborating across teams and suppliers to deliver quality products on tight schedules.
• Understanding of computing architectures.
• Coding experience with scripting languages such as Python.

• Demonstrable experience in PCI Express physical layer and debugging LTSSM failures; familiarity with data link layer and transaction layer.
• In‑depth knowledge of PCI Express (or similar) protocol and characterization/validation methods in post‑silicon environment.
• Excellent knowledge of signal integrity concepts, silicon characteristics and high‑speed/SERDES functional validation.
• Experience with datacenter products including system management, security, networking, and storage.
• Background with x86/Arm server architectures and accelerated GPU computing.

Base salary range is 168,000 USD – 258,750 USD for Level4 and 200,000 USD – 322,000 USD for Level
5. You will also be eligible for equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

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