Senior Digital Design Engineer - High-Speed I/O and Photonics
NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC Mixed Signal Design
Santa Clara, CA$136k - $218.5kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior digital design engineer focusing on high-speed I/O, DSPs, and silicon photonics IPs within NVIDIA’s mixed-signal high-speed I/O group. Responsible for frontend and backend design, micro-architecture definitions, calibration algorithms, RTL/firmware development, PPA trade-offs, and silicon bring-up.
Responsibilities
- Engage in frontend development for high-speed DSPs, silicon photonics IPs, and chips.
- Define chip-level features, programming model and application interface definitions.
- Collaborate with analog designers and system architects to develop micro-architecture specifications, calibration and adaptation algorithms, translated into RTL and firmware designs.
- Backend design: define and enforce synthesis constraints, drive timing closure.
- Evaluate PPA trade-offs based on synthesis and place-and-route feedback.
- Post-silicon: participate in silicon bring-up, build testing scripts for debugging, characterization, performance tuning, and production.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful production.
Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in high-speed digital design, proficient with front-end design flow and tools.
- Deep understanding of Verilog or SystemVerilog, logic design concepts, and typical structures.
- Good understanding of design for test, timing constraints, and static timing analysis.
- Experience with industry verification methodologies, such as UVM.
Skills
Required:Verilog/SystemVerilogDigital design conceptsDesign for test, timing constraints, STAUVM verification
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits as per NVIDIA policy (link provided in job description)
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