Senior Physical Design Engineer

About the role

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a "learning machine" that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to solve, that only we can tackle, and that matter to the world. This is our life's work, to amplify human imagination and intelligence.

What You'll Be Doing

• Responsible for all aspects of physical design and implementation of GPU and other ASICs targeted at the desktop, laptop, workstation, and mobile markets.
• As a member of a team, participate in establishing physical design methodologies, flow automation, chip floorplan, power/clock distribution, chip assembly and P&R, timing closure.
• Craft designs for static timing analysis, power and noise analysis and back-end verification.

What We Need To See

• BSEE (MSEE preferred) or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in large VLSI physical design implementation on 5nm, 4nm and 3nm technology.
• Successful track record of delivering designs to production is a requirement.
• Shown experience in Power, Performance and Area improvement Initiatives is a plus.
• Validated strong power user of P&R, Timing analysis, Physical Verification and IR Drop Analysis CAD tools from Synopsys (ICC2/DC/PT/STAR-RC/ICV), Cadence (Innovus, Tempus, SeaHawk) and Mentor Graphics.
• Deep understanding of custom macro blocks such as RAMs, CAMs, high-speed IO drivers, PLLs.
• Confirmed prior experience in timing closure, clock/power distribution and analysis, RC extraction and correlation, place/route and tapeout solutions.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills required.
• Proficiency using Python, Perl, Tcl, Make scripting is helpful.

Pay

Base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.