
Senior Physical Design Engineer
NVIDIA
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Santa Clara • California • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $136,000 - $218,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Responsible for all aspects of physical design and implementation of GPU and other ASICs targeted at the desktop, laptop, workstation, and mobile markets.
- 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.
- Shown experience in Power, Performance and Area improvement Initiatives is a plus.
- 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.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills required.
- Proficiency using Python, Perl, Tcl, Make scripting is helpful.
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Hard Skills & Tools
VLSI physical designstatic timing analysispower analysisnoise analysisback-end verificationtiming closureplace/routeRC extractiondebuggingscripting
Soft Skills
analytical skills
Certifications
BSEEMSEE