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Senior Signal and Power Integrity Engineer – Hardware

Senior Signal and Power Integrity Engineer – Hardware

CompanyNVIDIA
LocationAustin, TX, USA, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Salary$168000 – $310500
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • BS/MS-Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of industry experience
  • Strong technical background in applied electromagnetics, transmission line theory and signal processing
  • SI work on one or more signaling standards like PCI express, USB, SATA, HDMI, HBM, DDR5, GDDR6, LPDDR5X, etc.
  • Hands on use of 3-D modeling tools like ANSYS HFSS/Q3D, 2.5-D with ANSYS SIWAVE or similar and 2D such as Ansys2D
  • Familiarity with a system level timing or loss budget including silicon, package and board impairments
  • Familiarity with use of VNA, TDR, DSO, ParBERT and use of tools/applications like ADS, Ansys Designer, JMP, Matlab, Cadence Allegro

Responsibilities

  • Work on crafting creative Signal Integrity solutions to complex system design problems
  • Modeling and Optimization of vias, connectors, sockets, breakouts and various system components in 3D EM tools
  • System-level signal integrity simulations of high-speed NVlink 200Gbs+, USB-4, PCIe5, GDDR6, LP5X and other interfaces
  • Constant improvements of SI models using data from lab measurements and/or modelling tool/methodology updates
  • Substrate and board layout SI guidelines creation, review and post layout SI extractions
  • Simulation automation, data gathering, analysis and visualization using JMP, MATLAB or similar tools
  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic cross-functional role to optimize package, PCB, ASIC, mixed signal circuit

Preferred Qualifications

  • Expertise in one or more of the high speed interface SI/PI design on any industry standard system platforms
  • Experience with lab measurements, debugging, SI lab correlation using oscilloscope/ spectrum analyzer/ VNA
  • Knowledge of circuit design, board/pkg technology & design, link architecture, timing budget methodologies
  • Familiarity with PDN evaluation using layout extraction tools for packages and PCBs and spice-based time domain simulations