Senior Physical Design Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Yokneam, Israel +2

Senior Physical Design Engineer role at NVIDIA, focusing on the design, integration, and verification of high-speed communication chips. Responsibilities include complex physical design unit designs, running and debugging PnR and verification flows, and performing physical design implementation, planning, and optimization. Requires 5+ years of hands-on Physical Design 'Place and Route' experience, strong background in Physical Design methodology (Synthesis, Floorplan, CTS, Routing), sign-off stages (STA, PV, LEC, EMIR), knowledge of advanced silicon process technologies, and familiarity with EDA tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will be responsible for complex physical design unit designs, ensuring integration within our innovative builds.
  2. We expect you to run, debug, and approve PnR and verification flows across multiple projects, ensuring strict adherence to our high standards.
  3. You will perform physical design implementation, planning and optimization, contributing to the development of our groundbreaking chips.

Skills

Required

  • B.SC./ M.SC. in Electrical Engineering
  • 5+ years of hands-on Physical Design 'Place and Route' experience
  • Physical Design methodology (Synthesis, Floorplan, CTS and Routing)
  • Sign-off stages (STA, PV, LEC, EMIR)
  • advanced silicon process technologies
  • Synopsys and Cadence EDA tools

Nice to have

  • AI prompting experience
  • Linux environments
  • TCL, Python, shell scripting abilities
  • data collection and analysis
  • chip and die verification process

What the JD emphasized

  • at least 5+ years of hands-on Physical Design 'Place and Route' experience
  • A strong background in Physical Design methodology
  • Sign-off stages experince