Senior Circuit Design Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Senior Circuit Design Engineer at NVIDIA, focusing on designing innovative circuits for hardware security, adaptive clocking, and power management solutions for next-generation products. The role involves RTL to layout implementation, transistor-level analysis, and mentoring junior engineers. A key aspect is integrating AI/ML techniques into the design process.

What you'd actually do

  1. Integrate AI/ML techniques directly into the design process and methodology.
  2. You'll drive the design and physical implementation of custom digital IPs from RTL to layout using industry standard tools and custom design flows.
  3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve the power, performance, area and reliability of Nvidia’s next generation products through custom circuit solutions and detailed transistor-level analysis.
  4. Develop prototypes of patentable ideas on test chips and drive them to be deployed across the entire line of products.
  5. Be a mentor/technical lead for junior team members.

Skills

Required

  • digital circuit design
  • Spice simulations
  • EM/IR analysis
  • static timing analysis/closure
  • layout (drc, lvs)
  • PnR tools

Nice to have

  • low power circuits (power gating, decaps, multi-vt, etc..)
  • RTL
  • logic synthesis
  • verification
  • mixed signal circuit design
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Tcl
  • Make
  • automation methods/algorithms
  • micro-architecture
  • Synthesis
  • Auto Place and Route
  • STA
  • PVerf
  • Post-Silicon characterization
  • debug

What the JD emphasized

  • Excellent understanding of deep submicron process issues and digital circuit design techniques is required.
  • Hands on experience running Spice simulations, EM/IR analysis, and static timing analysis/closure is required.
  • Basic understanding and experience working with layout (drc, lvs) and/or PnR tools is required.