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Senior Physical Design AI Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Phys Design
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BengaluruFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

NVIDIA seeks a Senior Physical Design AI Engineer to combine deep physical design knowledge with AI technologies to build intelligent, scalable solutions for Physical Design Implementation teams across product lines. The role focuses on agentic AI solutions to improve productivity, efficiency, and quality, with research, development, and maintenance of AI-powered design tools in a global context.

Responsibilities

  • Work with Physical Design Implementation teams to understand complex problems and build agentic AI solutions for all product lines.
  • Deliver efficient, token-optimized AI solutions that consistently produce high-quality outputs.
  • Provide continuous support, maintenance, and enhancements for AI solutions.
  • Benchmark solutions across various AI models to evaluate and improve their effectiveness.
  • Research and innovate new AI methods to address evolving physical design challenges.
  • Build robust regression testbenches to validate the quality, reliability, and performance of AI solutions.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in Physical Design with BE/BTech/MTech degree, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong understanding of the RTL-to-GDSII flow and design implementation in leading process technologies, including synthesis, place and route, clock tree synthesis, timing convergence, and layout closure.
  • Good understanding of AI concepts such as tokens, KV cache, context windows, skills, agents, subagents, and hooks.
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor.
  • Strong knowledge and experience in standard place-and-route flows. Experience with Synopsys ICC2 and Cadence Innovus flows is preferred.
  • Good automation skills in Tcl, Python, and tool-specific scripting for one or more industry-leading place-and-route tools.
  • Ability to multitask and work effectively in a global environment. Excellent communication skills, strong motivation, and strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Skills

Required:Physical DesignRTL-to-GDSII flowAI conceptsAI toolsAutomation scripting

Benefits

  • Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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