Senior GPU Floorplan Design Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

Senior GPU Floorplan Design Engineer role at NVIDIA, focusing on designing and implementing next-generation GPUs. Responsibilities include developing and optimizing floorplans, driving area reviews, solving timing and routing issues, and building tools for optimization. Requires a strong hardware engineering background with expertise in VLSI, Computer Architecture, chip-level floorplanning, and physical design methodologies. Experience with Verilog/System Verilog and scripting languages (Python, Perl, C/C++) is necessary.

What you'd actually do

  1. Working with architects, design leads, physical design leads and package leads, you will develop and to craft and optimize floorplans during early chip development.
  2. Drive the area review process and collaborate with the ASIC design team to identify area, interconnect and floorplan improvement opportunities.
  3. Solve timing and routing congestion issues with physical and ASIC design teams by influencing early design and physical implementation decisions.
  4. You will build tools and improve existing infrastructure to optimize chip area and speed of execution.

Skills

Required

  • B.Tech./ M.Tech. with 5+ years of experience in floorplan, SOC planning, ASIC Physical design or related roles.
  • A deep hardware engineering background with a concentration in VLSI and/or Computer Architecture.
  • Hands-on experience with chip-level or subsystem-level floorplanning and physical planning
  • Solid understanding of timing, congestion, power distribution, and physical constraints
  • Experience in Verilog, System Verilog or similar HVL.
  • Experience with CAD and physical design methodologies (flow and tool development), chip floorplan, power/clock distribution, packaging, P&R and timing closure.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Python, Perl and C/C++ programming language experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience in driving development of large scale ASIC floorplan is a huge plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • path forward
  • early planning
  • feasibility studies
  • physical trade-off exploration
  • craft and to influence the design and development of the next generation GPU
  • push the frontiers of what is possible today and define the platform for the future of computing
  • large scale ASIC floorplan