Senior Software R&D Engineer, VLSI Physical Design

NVIDIA
Santa Clara, Austin
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 168,000 - 264,500 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Interpersonal skills"]

Senior Software R&D Engineer specializing in VLSI Physical Design, focusing on algorithms for placement, global routing, and floorplanning. Develop CAD-style tools and ML strategies to optimize design space exploration, with emphasis on computational geometry, graph theory, and visualization. Impact the physical layout and performance of next-generation AI chips, collaborating with design teams across the process from optimization opportunities to implementation.

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Senior Software R&D Engineer, VLSI Physical Design

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Job Summary

Senior Software R&D Engineer specializing in VLSI Physical Design, focusing on algorithms for placement, global routing, and floorplanning. Develop CAD-style tools and ML strategies to optimize design space exploration, with emphasis on computational geometry, graph theory, and visualization. Impact the physical layout and performance of next-generation AI chips, collaborating with design teams across the process from optimization opportunities to implementation.
Location: Santa Clara, Austin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Implement, enhance, optimize, and deploy new tools for chip level placement, reshaping and route optimization.
  • •Create innovative algorithms for computational geometry, placement, fast routing etc. to efficiently arrange the blocks in a chip.
  • •Develop and implement new machine learning strategies to improve efficiency of design space exploration.
  • •Improve designer insight, debugging and visualization by extending GUIs built.
  • •Work beyond typical CAD or EDA positions, collaborating with design teams to identify and implement optimization opportunities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 168,000 - 264,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
  • •Strength in both CAD software and VLSI hardware design
  • •6+ years of software development with C++
  • •Good understanding of computational geometry, placement, routing and graph theory
  • •Familiarity with design implementation tools such as ICC2, Innovus
Experience:6+ yearsSemiconductorVLSIHardware designAI hardware
Education:
Skills:CommunicationInterpersonal skills
Languages:English
Tech Stack:C++ICC2InnovusCADGeometryGraph theoryGPUVLSISoftware development

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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