Senior Physical Methodology Design Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India +1

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Physical Design Methodology Engineer to work on industry-leading GPUs and SOCs. The role involves physical design activities such as floor plans, RC extraction, PNR, STA, and DRCs, as well as scripting and building flows using industry-standard EDA tools to improve PPA. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in Physical Design, strong understanding of the RTL2GDSII flow, expertise in high-frequency design methodologies, and experience with tools like ICC2/Innovus and Primetime/Tempus.

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

  • BE/BTECH/MTECH, or equivalent experience
  • 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
  • Python will be helpful too
  • 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

  • ICC2/Synopsys and Innovus/Cadence flows preferred
  • Python

What the JD emphasized

  • physical design methodology
  • RTL2GDSII flow
  • physical verification
  • high frequency design methodologies
  • timing convergence
  • ECO timing closure