Asic Physical Design Engineer, Netlisting - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA +1

NVIDIA is seeking a motivated ASIC Physical Design Engineer, Netlisting for their Santa Clara or Austin office. The role involves driving the physical design of high-frequency and low-power CPUs, GPUs, and SoCs, with a focus on netlist-related aspects like equivalence checking, asynchronous checking, and logic synthesis. The ideal candidate will have a Master's or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering, knowledge in logic equivalence checking, understanding of hardware architecture, and experience with RTL/logic design for timing closure. Experience with clock-domain-crossing checks, MTBF analysis, logic synthesis, and scripting languages like Python is also required. Experience with AI utilization in workflows is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive physical design of high-frequency and low-power CPUs, GPUs, SoCs at block level, cluster level, and/or full chip level, with a focus on netlist-related aspects such as equivalence checking, asynchronous checking including clock domain crossing checks and MTBF analysis, logic synthesis, netlist quality checks, etc.
  2. Help in ECO generation and implementation.

Skills

Required

  • Master's or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
  • Shown knowledge in logic equivalence checking/Formal Verification required from RTL to tapeout with industry-standard tools.
  • Understanding of hardware architecture and hands-on skills in RTL/logic design for timing closure.
  • Experience in clock-domain-crossing checking, MTBF analysis, either with EDA tools (i.e., Synopsys or Cadence) or in-house tools.
  • Background with logic synthesis at either block or full-chip level, at project execution and/or flow development.
  • In-depth knowledge of industry standard EDA tools in related fields.
  • Experience in programming and scripting languages, such as, Perl, TCL, Make, Python, etc.

Nice to have

  • Experience in logic synthesis and equivalence checking/FV. Familiarity with industry tools and flow.
  • Strong hands-on debugging capability and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience improving workflows and productivity through effective AI utilization is a plus.