Senior Physical Design Engineer

NVIDIA
Santa Clara, Austin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 168,000 - 264,500 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 8+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Analytical","Debugging","Communication","Teamwork"]

Lead end-to-end physical design for NVIDIA GPUs and ASICs, overseeing flow automation, floorplanning, power/clock distribution, and timing closure. Collaborate with design teams to craft robust P&R flows, perform static timing and IR drop analyses, and drive tapeout readiness. Requires deep VLSI experience, CAD tool fluency, and a track record delivering production-ready designs on leading nodes.

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Senior Physical Design Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end physical design for NVIDIA GPUs and ASICs, overseeing flow automation, floorplanning, power/clock distribution, and timing closure. Collaborate with design teams to craft robust P&R flows, perform static timing and IR drop analyses, and drive tapeout readiness. Requires deep VLSI experience, CAD tool fluency, and a track record delivering production-ready designs on leading nodes.
Location: Santa Clara, Austin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Oversee all aspects of physical design and implementation of GPU and other ASICs targeted at desktop, laptop, workstation, and mobile markets.
  • •Establish 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.
  • •Ensure designs meet production requirements and drive tapeout readiness.
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize Power, Performance and Area and address RC extraction and correlation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 168,000 - 264,500 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •BSEE (MSEE preferred) or equivalent experience.
  • •8+ years of experience in large VLSI physical design implementation on 5nm, 4nm and 3nm technology.
  • •Your successful track record of delivering designs to production is a requirement.
  • •Experience with Power, Performance and Area improvement initiatives is a plus.
  • •Proficiency with 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.
Experience:8+ yearsSemiconductorASICGPUVLSI
Education:Master's
Skills:AnalyticalDebuggingCommunicationTeamwork
Tech Stack:PythonPerlTclMakeICC2DCPTSTAR-RCICVInnovusTempusSeaHawk

Company Brief

NVIDIA
Designs and manufactures GPUs, AI accelerators, and system-on-chip products for gaming, data centers, professional visualization, and automotive markets, enabling advanced graphics, AI, and high-performance computing solutions worldwide.
Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 1993
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