Senior Custom Silicon Design Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Shanghai, China

Senior Custom Silicon Design Engineer to design, analyze, and evolve next generation NVLINK Fusion product. This role involves understanding SOC/IP solutions, working with architects and customers on SOC/IP design, development, timing closure, power analysis, and integrating/optimizing IP blocks for NVIDIA SoCs across various applications including AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Working with customers, partners, and IP vendors to understand SOC/IP solutions best suited for the target use cases and work with them to select and integrate appropriate IP/SOC solutions.
  2. Work with Architects, Chip Leads, and Customers on SOC/IP design, development, timing closure, power analysis, methodology alignment, and program execution to ensure pre-silicon and post-silicon targets are met.
  3. Integrating, evolving, and optimizing IP blocks across a range of products and use cases for NVIDIA SoCs in AI, driving, 6G, cloud, gaming, and other applications.
  4. Working with teams throughout the company (Architects, RTL, PD, Circuit, SI, Thermal, SW, Platform, Operations, Marketing, etc...) on implementing cross-team solutions to achieve project targets.
  5. Drive cross-team methodologies for external soft IP and PHY integration, Nvidia IP release to partner, RTL development and microarchitecture.

Skills

Required

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of relevant work experience in RTL development focused on CPU, GPU, and high-performance architectures
  • Proficiency in industry-standard RTL development and synthesis tools
  • Experience developing high-speed digital blocks
  • Experience debugging complex microarchitectural structures
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills
  • A drive to continuously learn and expand architectural breadth and depth
  • Ability to evaluate microarchitectural options for tradeoffs across design, verification, and PD
  • Experience interconnecting and analyzing complex microarchitectural structures and subsystems

Nice to have

  • Cross-cultural work and study experience
  • Experience in ARM-based SOC definition and development
  • Experience in partner and customer engagement for usecase/chip solution
  • Experience in some of domains, SOC clock implementation, power structure insertion, DFT, synthesis, place and route and STA

What the JD emphasized

  • design, analyze, and evolve next generation NVLINK Fusion product
  • passion and desire to deliver innovative products
  • understands how SoC systems are architected and built
  • intimate knowledge of client requirements
  • understands various development cycles
  • 7+ years of relevant work experience in RTL development focused on CPU, GPU, and high-performance architectures
  • Experience developing high-speed digital blocks
  • Experience debugging complex microarchitectural structures
  • Ability to evaluate microarchitectural options for tradeoffs across design, verification, and PD
  • Experience interconnecting and analyzing complex microarchitectural structures and subsystems