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ASIC Floorplan Design Engineer - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
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Santa Clara, CA$116k - $189.8k + equityfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

ASIC Floorplan Design Engineer position at NVIDIA for new college graduates (Class of 2026) focusing on developing and optimizing floorplans for SoCs/GPUs, collaborating with architects and design teams, and enhancing infrastructure for better area and speed.

Responsibilities

  • Working with architects, design leads, physical design leads and package leads, you will develop and to craft and optimize floorplans during early chip development.
  • Drive the area review process and collaborate with the ASIC design team to identify area, interconnect and floorplan improvement opportunities
  • Solve timing and routing congestion issues with physical and ASIC design teams by influencing early design and physical implementation decisions.
  • You will build tools and improve existing infrastructure to optimize chip area and speed of execution.

Qualifications

  • Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • A deep hardware engineering background with a concentration in VLSI and/or Computer Architecture.
  • Experience in Verilog, System Verilog or similar HVL
  • Experience with CAD and physical design methodologies (flow and tool development), chip floorplan, power/clock distribution, packaging, P&R and timing closure.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability & desire to work as a great teammate should be displayed in your interview.
  • Python, Perl and C/C++ programming language experience

Skills

Required:Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer EngineeringVLSI / Computer ArchitectureVerilog / SystemVerilog or HVLCAD and physical design methodologiesProgramming languagesCommunication and teamwork

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see NVIDIA Benefits)
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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