Senior Physical Design Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India +1

NVIDIA is looking for a Senior Physical Design Engineer to work on industry-leading GPUs and SOCs, impacting product lines from consumer graphics to self-driving cars and AI. The role involves physical design activities like floor plans, PNR, STA, and DRCs, scripting (TCL/Python) for design automation, and building flows using EDA tools to improve PPA (Power, Performance, Area).

What you'd actually do

  1. In this position, you will expected to be part of the physical design methodology team. PD activities includes floor plans, abstract view generation, RC extraction, PNR, STA, EMIR DROP, DRCs & schematic to layout verification.
  2. Work in collaboration with design team for addressing design challenges. Help team members in debugging tool/design related issues. Constantly look for improvement in RTL2GDS flow to improve PPA. Troubleshoots a wide variety up to and including difficult design issues and applied proactive intervention.
  3. Write scripts (TCL/Python) to help design teams move forward with their design and chip goals
  4. Build flows based on industry standard EDA tools to implement designs efficiently and improve PPA. Support flows for chip design teams across tapeouts and tech nodes.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience in Physical Design, preferably with methodology/flow experience.
  • Strong understanding in the RTL2GDSII flow or design implementation in leading process technologies.
  • Good understanding of the RTL2GDSIl concepts related to synthesis, place & route, CTS, timing convergence, layout closure.
  • Expertise on high frequency design methodologies.
  • Good knowledge and experience in Block-level and Full-chip Floor-planning and Physical verification.
  • Working experience with tools like ICC2/Innovus, Primetime/Tempus/Seahawk etc used in the RTL2GDSIl implementation.
  • Strong knowledge and experience in standard place and route flows
  • Well versed with timing constraints, STA, IR and ECO timing closure.
  • Strong algorithmic thinking with good automation skills in PERL, TCL, tool specific scripting on one of the industry leading Place & Route tools.
  • Ability to multi-task and flexibility to work in global environment.
  • Good communication skills and strong motivation, Strong analytical & Problem Solving skills
  • Willingness to learn and master new techniques quickly
  • Innovate and drive changes across teams & workflows

Nice to have

  • Python will be helpful too.
  • ICC2/Synopsys and Innovus/Cadence flows preferred.