Senior Physical Design and Timing Engineer
NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
Santa Clara, CA, Durham, NC, Austin, TX, Hillsboro, OR$136k - $218.5k + equityfull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior-level ASIC/SoC physical design and timing engineer responsible for high-frequency and low-power design across blocks, clusters, and full-chip levels, coordinating frontend and backend RTL-to-GDS2 processes, and driving timing and power convergence.
Responsibilities
- Drive physical design and timing of high-frequency and low-power NVIDIA CPUs, GPUs, LPUs and SoCs at block level, cluster level, and/or full chip level.
- Help in driving frontend and backend implementation from RTL to gds2, including synthesis, equivalence checking, floor-planning, timing constraints, timing and power convergence, and ECO implementation.
- Work in a cross-functional environment interacting with multiple teams.
Qualifications
- BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 5+ years of experience, or MS (or equivalent experience) with 3+ years of experience in physical design, synthesis, and timing.
- Strong hands-on experience taking complex blocks, IPs, or chips from RTL/netlist to tapeout through logic synthesis, floorplanning, placement, clock-tree synthesis, routing, physical optimization, signoff, and ECOs.
- Demonstrated success improving power, performance, and area through design improvements, critical-path planning and crafting, or methodology/workflow improvements.
- Hands-on experience in block, sub-chip, and full-chip level Static Timing Analysis, timing-constraint development, and multi-mode, multi-corner timing closure factoring in process variations, IR drop, and Xtalk.
- Expertise and in-depth knowledge of industry-standard EDA tools.
- Proficiency in Python, Tcl, Perl, Make, or similar scripting languages as well as AI/ML/DL/LLMs.
Skills
Required:Physical designStatic Timing AnalysisScriptingEDA tools
Benefits
- equity
- comprehensive benefits package
- www.nvidiabenefits.com/ (benefits information)
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