Physical Design Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Westford, MA

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Physical Design Engineer to lead physical design and implementation of SOC devices for networking markets. The role involves all aspects of physical chip development from RTL to GDS, including synthesis, floorplan, power/clock distribution, place and route, timing closure, and verification. The engineer will also assist in design flow development and debugging, including the application of ML/AI solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will lead all aspects of physical design and implementation of SOC devices targeted at the networking markets.
  2. Work will be at the partition level.
  3. As a member of a team, you will participate in establishing physical design methodologies, flow automation, chip floorplan, power/clock distribution, chip assembly and P&R, timing closure.
  4. Daily work involves all aspects of physical chip development (RTL2GDS) – trial synthesis, power and clock distribution, place and route, timing closure, power and noise analysis and physical verification.

Skills

Required

  • BSEE / MSEE or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of experience in VLSI physical design implementation on 5nm, 4nm and 3nm technology
  • Able to assist in design flow development and debugging, including application of ML/AI solutions
  • Validated strong power user of P&R, Timing Analysis, Physical Verification, IR Drop Analysis, CAD tools from Synopsys (ICC2/DC/PT/STAR/ICV), Cadence (Genus/Innovus/Tempus) and other major EDA companies
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Proficiency using Python, Perl, Tcl, Make scripting

What the JD emphasized

  • application of ML/AI solutions