Silicon Power And Characterization Lead in United States

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. Tenstorrent is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineer to lead post-silicon power characterization and correlation activities for cutting-edge semiconductor products. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing detailed power measurement strategies on silicon, correlating results with pre-silicon models, and driving improvements across power architecture, design, and modeling methodologies. You will serve as a key technical leader, interfacing across design, architecture, validation, and systems teams to ensure silicon meets power and performance specifications under all operating conditions. This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, ON or Austin, TX or Santa Clara, CA. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who you are A Principal-level engineer with 8+ years in silicon power analysis and characterization, and a Master’s or PhD in EE, CE, or related field. Deep understanding of digital and mixed-signal power domains, including DVFS, leakage vs. dynamic power, and power gating. Highly proficient in lab-based power measurement using oscilloscopes, current probes, power analyzers, and SMUs, plus Python/Perl/MATLAB

Staff -Power and Performance Validation Engineer About us Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. Job Summary Reporting to senior leadership within Architecture and Validation, the Power and Performance Validation Lead will drive validation strategy and execution for advanced AI compute silicon and systems. The role is responsible for leading power, thermal and performance validation activities across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments to ensure products meet efficiency, reliability and scalability expectations. This role requires strong technical expertise and collaboration across multiple engineering disciplines to deliver robust validation methodologies, scalable automation frameworks and actionable performance insights. The Team The Power and Performance Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation organisation and is responsible for validating the performance, efficiency and thermal behaviour of Graphcore silicon and systems. The team supports the full product lifecycle, from early architectural modelling through to first silicon bring-up, characterization and production readiness. Engineers work closely with cross-functional teams globally to debu

Power and Performance Validation Engineer About us Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. Job Summary Reporting to senior leadership within Architecture and Validation, the Power and Performance Validation Lead will drive validation strategy and execution for advanced AI compute silicon and systems. The role is responsible for leading power, thermal and performance validation activities across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments to ensure products meet efficiency, reliability and scalability expectations. This role requires strong technical expertise and collaboration across multiple engineering disciplines to deliver robust validation methodologies, scalable automation frameworks and actionable performance insights. The Team The Power and Performance Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation organisation and is responsible for validating the performance, efficiency and thermal behaviour of Graphcore silicon and systems. The team supports the full product lifecycle, from early architectural modelling through to first silicon bring-up, characterization and production readiness. Engineers work closely with cross-functional teams globally to debug compl

About us Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. Job Summary We are looking for an experienced System Level Test Engineer to join our Product Test and Diagnosis Department (PTD). In this role, you will contribute to the development and deployment of System Level Test (SLT) solutions for next-generation AI processors. Working closely with hardware, software, validation, and manufacturing teams, you will develop test content, automation, diagnostics, and characterization capabilities that support silicon bring-up, yield learning, and manufacturing deployment. The ideal candidate will have strong technical foundations in semiconductor test and validation, excellent debug skills, and a passion for improving product quality and manufacturability. The Team The Product Test and Diagnostics team’s role is to detect and manage hardware defects that arise from the manufacture and use of our products. This covers chips, boards and finished systems and takes place both in the manufacturing sites and in the field. Responsibilities and Duties Develop and maintain SLT test content, automation, d

NVIDIA's accelerated computing platforms move data at speeds that push the limits of what silicon and physics allow. Whether a high-speed interface trains reliably, maintains accurate margins, and survives every platform topology it will ever see is a question we answer ourselves. This role does that work. The Silicon Co-Design Group leads the boundary between what was designed and what was built. When a GPU, CPU, or SoC ships with interfaces that work at scale, this team is the reason. Most engineers debug within a layer. You will own the full stack. When an interface fails to train, the link margin is unexpectedly tight, or a customer reports a critical silicon issue, you trace the problem through protocol behavior, signal integrity, firmware, platform topology, and silicon marginalities. You then confirm that the fix works. Your methodology shapes how NVIDIA validates high-speed interfaces across generations. Your decisions affect yield, production ramp, and field quality. This is not a coordination role. The engineers who do it well hold protocol depth and system breadth simultaneously, never lose the thread across hardware, firmware, and software, and have the judgment to know when to go deeper and when to act. They are rare. Should that describe you, read on. What you'll be doing: Own post-silicon bring-up, characterization, validation, and debug of PCIe, NVLink, C2C, and other HSIO interfaces across NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, and SoCs from first power-on through production readiness. Close the hardest failures. Drive root cause across protocol behavior, signal integrity, firmware and driver interactions, platform topology, and silicon marginalities and own every fix through to confirmation. Define validation strategy. Set test coverage, debug priorities, margining methodology, and stress criteria f

About the team: OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the role: We are seeking an experienced Optical Network Engineer to lead Laser related work within our optical interconnect efforts for large-scale compute systems. The role also requires broad, hands-on optical validation experience across IM/DD-based interconnects, working from lab characterization through production readiness and scaled deployment. In this role you will: Drive laser-focused requirements and technical direction within the broader optical interconnect roadmap. Lead evaluation and validation of optical components and subsystems, including laser-based elements, in lab and production-representative environments. Support end-to-end optical testing for IM/DD interconnects (e.g., module/system bring-up, characterization, debug, and readiness for scale). Work with external partners to align on development milestones, performance targets, and quality expectations. Own technical issue triage and resolution across performance, reliability, and manufacturability topics. Collaborate across internal teams to support integration, rollout, and operational success at scale. You might thrive in this role if you have: Strong experience in laser-focused optical engineering (development, validation, manufacturing readiness, or field support). Broad hands-on background with IM/DD optical technologies and optical test/debug workflows. Experience working with external suppliers/manufacturing partners and production-oriented execution. Demonstrated ability to debug complex t

NVIDIA has been redefining computer graphics, desktop gaming, and enhanced computing capabilities for more than 25 years. Today, we are tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. As a NVIDIAN, you will work on problems that sit at the boundary of architecture, silicon, firmware, software, and production, where strong judgment matters as much as technical depth. We're the Silicon Design for Productization (DFP) Team, within the broader Silicon Co-Design Group, and we turn power and thermal design into executable productization methodology. Power and thermal are among the most complicated problems we work on at NVIDIA because they sit at the intersection of architecture, workload behavior, silicon variation, firmware policy, platform constraints, and product goals. Small decisions here have an outsized impact on performance, efficiency, reliability, bring-up speed, and ultimately what the product can deliver in the field. We define how features move from concepts to bring-up, characterization, validation, and release. In this role, you will help us build that bridge. We're looking for an engineer who reasons from first principles, flourishes with ownership in a fast-paced environment, and uses AI with sound judgment. What you’ll be doing: 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

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role We’re looking for an experienced systems software engineer to help define and build the host software stack for our custom next-generation AI systems. You will work close to the hardware on performance-critical software, including Linux kernel drivers, high-throughput I/O paths, and system-scale networking and RDMA. This role spans architecture, implementation, platform bring-up, debugging, and performance optimization. You will work across hardware and software boundaries to make new systems usable end to end, from low-level device interfaces through userspace tooling and production validation. In this role you will: Design, implement, and debug host-side systems software for AI infrastructure, including Linux kernel drivers and supporting userspace components. Build and optimize software paths for high-throughput, low-latency communication, including RDMA and related networking functionality. Develop software around PCIe, DMA, NICs, accelerators, memory movement, and device interaction. Bring up new hardware platforms and diagnose complex issues across kernel, firmware, networking, and hardware boundaries. Build tooling for integration, testing, diagnostics, observability, qualification, and performance characterization. Collaborate with hardware, networking, and platform teams to define interfaces and integrate new capabilities. Work with external vendors where needed to integrate technologies and drive issues to resolution. Contribute across the systems sof

NVIDIA silicon runs the world's AI infrastructure. The frequency it delivers across every voltage, process corner, and workload is not assumed. It is measured, correlated, and validated. This role does that work. The Silicon Co-Design Group is where architecture intent becomes silicon reality. We own the boundary between what was designed and what was built, and we are the team that knows the difference. When a program ships at frequency and at quality, this team is a reason why. You will be the person who follows through between simulation and silicon. When the model is wrong, a frequency corner that doesn't hold, a Vmin that walks, a critical path that timing analysis missed, you find out why, and your data is what the rest of the program acts on. Architecture, design, and product teams do not guess. They use your numbers. The engineers who do this well are rare. They think like circuit designers, work like experimentalists, and reason like data scientists. If that is you, read on. What you'll be doing: Own silicon speed characterization from first power-on through production sign-off, covering frequency, Vmin, Vmax, and timing margins across the full PVT space. Close the correlation gap. Tie pre-silicon timing analysis and critical path predictions to measured silicon, quantify where the model diverges from reality, and produce analysis that architecture and design can act on with confidence. Trace failures to their source, whether a microarchitectural bottleneck, a critical path that doesn't close under voltage, a clocking issue, or a process corner the model didn't anticipate, and drive the resolution. Own and build AI agents that work at your direction: automated test orchestration, intelligent data pipelines, and analysis flows that expand coverage and compress cycle time without sacrificing difficulty. Know where AI accelerates real work and whe

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As a NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. Silicon Co-Design Group (SCG) is a wide-ranging, multi-functional, integral team at NVIDIA. We sit at the crossroads of design, architecture, marketing, operations, and productization. Our contributions span from the arch stage and extend to defining final products. We architect innovative solutions for Datacenter, Server, Gaming, Robotics, Automotive, and Embedded markets. We are fast-paced, dynamic, share a sense of humor, and collaborate extensively to push the boundaries of what is possible. We do all of this with an eye on making groundbreaking, impactful market disruptions! We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager to lead Product Co-Design and Verification in areas of Speed, Reliability and Power Compliance. You will oversee speed/timing/reliability system design, Simulation-to-Silicon power/speed verification, features for product compliance and test chip development crating future product roadmaps. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in semiconductor/VLSI design and a background in translating product requirements into design and vice versa. This is a highly visible, multi-functional role to produce outstanding products that ship at SOL and meet the high NVIDIA quality we demand and customers expect. <p

NVIDIA's Silicon Co-design Group (SCG) sits at a rare intersection: we own the full product development lifecycle, from early architecture definition through silicon bringup to product release. Our ArchDev team is the hub for silicon and system-level feature development, driving tradeoff analysis, system integration, and POR alignment across the entire organization. If you want to see your work go from whiteboard to world-class silicon, this is where that happens. What You'll Be Doing: Architect and integrate system-level performance and power management features, controllers, and policies to optimize product efficiency across datacenter and client products . Build feature roadmaps to address low-power, low-noise, and performance-per-watt product needs through prototyping, use-case analysis, and cost/benefit trade-offs. Partner with architecture, ASIC, board/platform, software/firmware, and marketing teams to drive design decisions and debug complex issues. Track industry trends and market needs and translate them into forward-looking roadmaps that keep NVIDIA's products ahead of the curve. Lead debug efforts, develop workarounds, and support bringup , validation, manufacturing, and customer escalations. What We Need to See: <

NVIDIA builds the silicon behind AI, accelerated computing, and graphics. Every watt of performance and every degree of thermal headroom traces back to decisions made in power, performance, and thermal architecture. We are the Silicon Co-Design Group (SCG). We identify, own, and drive system-level co-design ideas. We start with initial concepts and advance to product differentiation across NVIDIA's roadmap. We are hiring a Principal System Power Management and Performance Architect who operates at the ambiguous boundary where workload behavior, silicon capabilities, firmware policies, and platform constraints collide, and who turns that ambiguity into architecture that survives across multiple silicon generations. SCG scope spans architecture, design, software, operations, platforms, and productization. This role shapes system, platform, and data center features and behavior, and partners with teams across NVIDIA. What You'll Be Doing: The work here is rarely well-defined when it arrives. You will be given problems that appear to be performance gaps or power anomalies and encouraged to build a framework for solving them, not just tackle a single instance. Define the multi-generation roadmap for system-level power and performance features, grounded in prototyping, use-case analysis, and cost/benefit trade-offs across segments. You will decide what problems are worth solving and why. Own the architecture and integration strategy for HSIO power management, DVFS, P-states, and low-power features. Your decisions improve product performance, power, and reliability across product lines — not just the current program. Lead system-level boot and IST architecture defining how power and clock domains initialize, sequence, and recover across complex multi-IP systems where the interaction space is large and the failure modes matter. Drive power management strategy at data

Job Details: Job Description: As a Senior Power and Performance (PnP) Engineer, you will be responsible for PnP product execution focused on measurements, analysis, and projections/estimates of Intel's unlaunched notebook and desktop products. Based on your technical knowledge of both Intel and the competition, you will help influence OEM customers, internal marketing teams, internal engineering teams, debug Intel silicon/platform on PnP issues, and be an integral part for Intel product launches. Core responsibilities to include following: Measure, analyze, and debug workloads to call out any power and/or performance gaps and close with internal engineering teams/architects Measure and analyze SoC/CPU and platform power on a rail by rail basis and debug any issues/gaps Align with other internal engineering teams and architects to ensure there is consensus on power and performance projections/estimates/measurements for both internal and external communication Guide, educate, and influence internal engineering teams, field account teams, and marketing teams on power and performance positioning of Intel products Create power and performance estimates on upcoming Intel products based on workloads to aid marketing decisions and help set internal KPI targets Own the publication of the Power Performance Guide (PPG) collateral to help guide OEM customers Bring up full test platform to enable both power and performance measurements including setup, calibration, and measurements. Qualifications: You mus

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It's a unique legacy of innovation that's fueled by great technology and amazing people. Today, we're harnessing the boundless possibilities of AI to build the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Accomplishing unprecedented goals calls for imagination, inventiveness, and exceptional talent from around the world. As a NVIDIAN, you'll be immersed in a diverse, encouraging environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Join our team and discover how you can build a lasting impact on the world. NVIDIA designs the silicon behind AI, accelerated computing, and graphics. Power and thermal architecture decisions sit behind every watt of performance and every degree of thermal headroom! We are the Silicon Co-Design Group (SCG). We are hiring a Principal Architect to scout the research and industry landscape, identify emerging system-level co-design ideas in power and thermal, and drive them across teams into product differentiation across NVIDIA's roadmap. This role shapes system, platform, and datacenter feature/behavior, and partners with teams across Nvidia. SCG scope spans across architecture, design, software, operations, platforms, and productization. What you'll be doing: Architect next-generation system, platform, and datacenter-level power and thermal co-design solutions. Scan internal research, academia, standards bodies, and silicon, memory, packaging, and platform partners for what is emerging. Build the product differentiation case for each candidate idea, performance, power, reliability, schedule, cost, and brainstorm what is worth pursuing. Lead end-to-end co-design from concept to product. Drive alignment across architecture, VLSI, softw

The SCG Architecture team is hiring a Senior Power Integrity Co-Design Engineer to architect and deliver di/dt mitigation across silicon, package, board, and platform. This role bridges architecture, silicon, and platform — translating product noise targets into shipped specifications, and feeding silicon findings back into the next generation's build. Success in this role requires strong systems thinking and a willingness to accept ambiguity. It also requires the ability to apply AI as a force multiplier while maintaining rigorous engineering judgment. What you'll be doing: Architect voltage-noise mitigation across the full stack — silicon, package, board, platform — and own the codesign trade-offs between them. Co-design noise features with Speed, Power, Reliability, Circuit Design , Power-Arch, ASIC, and platform teams. You're the connective tissue across the codesign web. Work with other team members to define product-level voltage noise targets, drive them to closure, and sign them off at shipment. Build and take ownership of the Sim-to-Si correlation methodology for noise. You know when a model is lying and when silicon is. Model and prototype next-gen noise features — transient sense, droop response, mitigation IP, and codify them so every future program inherits them. Lead show-stopper noise bugs during bringup. The critical issues stop with you. Drive architecture-level codesign tradeoffs across V/F Power Noise Reliability Thermal (Noise-Variation) and (Noise-to-Closure) boundary work, where the highest-leverage innovation lives. What we need to see: BS / MS / PhD in EE, CE, or related (or equivalent experience). 5&#43; years in silicon power integrity, voltage noise, or PDN. Deep expertise in at least one of