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Senior ASIC Floorplan Design Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
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Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX$196k - $310.5kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Experienced ASIC Floorplan Engineer to design and implement leading SOCs, CPUs, and GPUs, influencing from architecture to physical design across NVIDIA’s product lines including graphics, AI, and autonomous driving.

Responsibilities

  • From the early chip definition phase you will partner closely with product managers, chip architects, ASIC design, physical design, packaging teams among others to craft the chip floorplan that optimizes cost/area, performance, and power for a target market
  • Drive the floorplan development and collaborate with the ASIC and Physical design teams to identify and solve area, interconnect, timing, and floorplan improvement opportunities to achieve optimal product features and cost
  • Develop AI workflows and productivity tools to continually improve existing infrastructure for optimizing chip area and speed of execution
  • Identify key technical and product risks and work with engineering and management teams to close on risk mitigation strategies among the options

Qualifications

  • MSEE/MSCE (or equivalent experience) with broad and deep experience in chip development
  • 10+ years of experience
  • Experience with developing SOC, CPU, graphics, memory, and I/O sub-systems in the chip
  • Ability to multi-task effectively across simultaneous projects and drive the resolution of complex technical issues among multi-disciplinary engineering teams
  • Experience with physical design methodologies (flow and tools development), chip floorplan, power/clock/reset distribution, DFT, place and route, timing closure, and packaging
  • Strong written, verbal, and technical communications skills to present the progress and options to drive towards alignment across many multi-disciplinary teams
  • Agentic AI workflows, Python, Perl and/or C++ programming language experience

Skills

Required:ASIC floorplanningphysical design methodologiesmultidisciplinary collaborationprogrammingcommunication

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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