Silicon Co-Design Engineer - New College Grad 2026 - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$116,000 - $218,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Silicon Co-Design Engineer on the Silicon Co-design Engineering Team, you will be responsible for productizing chips into consumer, professional, server, mobile, and automotive solutions.
What you'll do
- Develop and implement methodologies to characterize silicon and validate system features on pre-production silicon. - Drive root-causes analysis efforts of hardware failures through lab experimentation and collaboration with cross-functional teams. - Characterize pre-production silicon for speed, performance, power, yield, and quality to draw correlation to design. - Analyze workloads like DL/AI, AAA games, Adobe Suite, and Video Conferencing to understand energy efficiency. - Design or commission tools on evaluation platforms to automate and optimize characterization, data collection, test case execution, and results analysis. - Find solutions to silicon and system level problems to productize silicon and refine future designs post-silicon.
What you'll need
- Completing a BS, MS, or PhD degree in EE, CE, Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience. - Understanding of digital design, circuit analysis, algorithms, computer architecture, BIOS, drivers, and software applications. - Programming skills in one or more of Python, JavaScript, or C/C++. - Problem solving, debugging, analysis, and logical reasoning skills.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with statistical methods, tools for data analysis, and analyzing large datasets to draw actionable conclusions, possibly applying deep learning techniques. - Knowledge in signal integrity, timing analysis, fault analysis, sampling, computer architecture, and filters. - Familiarity with lab tools such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. - Experience in database and web development.
Skills: Silicon Validation, Characterization, Oscilloscopes, Pre-production Silicon, Power/Yield
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 41-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
436
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Median days open
41 d
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Median salary
$166k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (436 roles · 63 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 26 | 436 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 88 | 2240 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 24 d | 41 d (−17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $166k |
Skills observed across this category: Silicon Validation, Characterization, Oscilloscopes, Pre-production Silicon, Power/Yield
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 41 d
- Qualcomm · 38 open roles · median 29 d
- Micron Technology · 37 open roles · median 38 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 25 open roles · median 24 d
- Microchip Technology · 22 open roles · median 74 d
- Graphcore · 21 open roles · median 127 d
How we counted: 436 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 63 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.