Senior Circuit Methodology Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Circuit Methodology Engineer to lead the design, improvement, and evolution of in-house methodology applications for semiconductor design flows. This role involves developing new tools, enhancing existing ones, and promoting their adoption to improve tapeout schedules, design quality, and AI integration. The engineer will also prototype and deploy AI/ML capabilities into the tool ecosystem and establish guidelines for tool usage.

What you'd actually do

  1. architect, develop, and collaborate with our software development teams to implement new in-house tools that support mixed-signal project, cell specification, and circuit deliverable tracking.
  2. identify, prototype, and collaborate with software development teams to deploy AI/ML capabilities into the tool ecosystem.
  3. own and improve existing internal applications, ensuring they remain robust, maintainable, and aligned with evolving design methodology and business needs.
  4. define and drive tool integration into multi-department flows (circuit design, verification, VLSI, CAD) to streamline handoffs and reduce tapeout cycle time.
  5. establishing and communicating guidelines for tool usage, including onboarding, documentation, training, and support processes.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of working experience related to circuit design methodology, CAD/EDA development, or internal tools engineering for semiconductor design flows.
  • Good understanding of mixed-signal or analog/RF design flows and the corresponding EDA ecosystem.

Nice to have

  • Exposure to, and experience with AI algorithms/flows, and their integration into tools is strongly desired.
  • Background in process/flow engineering aimed at tapeout schedule reduction and design-quality improvements is a huge plus.
  • Coding experience considered a benefit.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI/ML capabilities into the tool ecosystem
  • AI integration within our flows
  • AI algorithms/flows, and their integration into tools