Senior Asic Design Engineer – Clocks Ip

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA +1

Senior ASIC Design Engineer role focused on designing and optimizing clocking networks for GPUs and CPUs at NVIDIA. Responsibilities include architecting clock domains, collaborating with cross-functional teams (front design, floor-planning, back end, SW, silicon solution), improving Power, Performance, and Area (PPA), and participating in the end-to-end ASIC execution cycle from micro-architecture to silicon bring-up.

What you'd actually do

  1. As a Clocks team member, you will be architecting the clock domain to satisfy functional, physical and testing design requirements.
  2. Engage with multiple teams and design the GPU or CPU clocks to satisfy all the architectural/design/physical constraints.
  3. Improve Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) of innovative NVIDIA chips by evaluating trade-offs across DFx, Physical Implementation, Power Optimization and Ease of timing closure to innovate and implement new Clocking topologies in RTL.
  4. Collaborate with Physical design and timing team to evaluate Clocking concerns and develop solutions for supporting high speed Clocking.
  5. Get involved in end-to-end cycle of ASIC execution starting from micro-arch, design implementation, design fixes, sign-off checks and all the way to Silicon bringup.

Skills

Required

  • BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of relevant work experience
  • Deep understanding of logic optimization techniques and PPA trade-offs
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams
  • Experience in RTL design (Verilog), verification and logic synthesis
  • Strong coding skills in python or other industry-standard scripting languages

Nice to have

  • MS preferred
  • Understanding of sub-micron silicon issues like noise, cross-talk, and OCV effects
  • Implementing on-chip clocking networks
  • Experience with clocks controller, clocks logic design
  • Understanding of system level artifacts like power, noise, etc
  • Experience with scalable designs and architecture
  • Hands- on silicon debug

What the JD emphasized

  • Deep understanding of logic optimization techniques and PPA trade-offs
  • Experience in RTL design (Verilog), verification and logic synthesis
  • Implementing on-chip clocking networks is a bonus