Senior Physical Design Engineer

NVIDIA is a leader in AI computing and is seeking a Senior Physical Design Engineer to join their innovative team. The role involves responsibility for all aspects of physical design and implementation of GPU and ASICs, including methodologies, flow automation, and back-end verification.

Responsibilities:

• 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, we will all 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

Requirements:

• BSEE (MSEE preferred) or equivalent experience
• 5 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
• Already a 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
• To be successful you should possess strong analytical and debugging skills required
• MSEE preferred
• Shown experience in the following areas: Power, Performance and Area improvement Initiatives is a plus
• Proficiency using Python, Perl, Tcl, Make scripting is helpful