Senior Physical Design Engineer
NVIDIA· Engineer, Phys Design
Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX$168k - $264.5kfull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Senior Physical Design Engineer responsible for all aspects of physical design and implementation of GPU and other ASICs, contributing to methodologies, flow automation, floorplanning, power/clock distribution, P&R, timing closure, and back-end verification.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for all aspects of physical design and implementation of GPU and other ASICs targeted at the desktop, laptop, workstation, and mobile markets.
- As a member of a team, establish physical design methodologies, flow automation, chip floorplan, power/clock distribution, chip assembly and P&R, timing closure.
- Craft designs for static timing analysis, power and noise analysis and back-end verification.
Qualifications
- BSEE (MSEE preferred) or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in large VLSI physical design implementation on 5nm, 4nm and 3nm technology.
- Successful track record of delivering designs to production.
- Validated strong power user of P&R, Timing analysis, Physical Verification and IR Drop Analysis CAD tools from Synopsys (ICC2/DC/PT/STAR-RC/ICV), Cadence (Innovus, Tempus, SeaHawk), and Mentor Graphics.
- Deep understanding of custom macro blocks such as RAMs, CAMs, high-speed IO drivers, PLLs.
- Experience in timing closure, clock/power distribution and analysis, RC extraction and correlation, place/route and tapeout solutions.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills.
- Proficiency using Python, Perl, Tcl, Make scripting is helpful.
Skills
Required:Physical design implementationTiming closurePower analysis and IR dropP&R CAD tools
Nice to have:Scripting
Benefits
- Equity eligibility
- Benefits (see company benefits page)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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