CareerPlan

Senior Silicon Circuit Co-Design Engineer

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$168k2026-09-23 → 2026-11-10

Core

Co-design, bring-up, and post-silicon validation of analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits for safety, security, reliability, and performance enhancement features in NVIDIA chips.

Role type

Senior Silicon Circuit Co-Design Engineer

Builds

Automated test orchestration, intelligent data pipelines, analysis flows, and characterization infrastructure.

Domain

Semiconductor / Hardware Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuit fundamentals, silicon bring-up, frequency and power characterization, post-silicon validation, PVT analysis, guard-banding, statistical analysis, Python, C/C++ scripting, oscilloscope and multimeter usage, silicon debug tools, power integrity analysis, transistor physics, silicon reliability and aging mechanisms.

Preferred skills

Co-design or correlation methodology development, root cause analysis of silicon anomalies, AI-driven flows for circuit analysis, engineering mentorship, datacenter-scale silicon experience.

Responsibilities

Own the co-design, bring-up, and post-silicon validation of circuits; close the simulation-to-silicon gap; trace failures to their source; build AI agents for automated test orchestration; build tools and automation infrastructure; sit at the decision table for binning and reliability sign-off; lead and mentor junior engineers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC