Physical Design Engineer

Position Overview

NVIDIA is seeking Senior Physical Design Engineers to join the Networking Silicon engineering team, responsible for developing high‑speed communication devices with the highest throughput and lowest latency.

• You will lead all aspects of physical design and implementation of SOC devices targeted at the networking markets.
• Work will be at the partition level.
• As a member of a team, you will participate in establishing physical design methodologies, flow automation, chip floorplan, power/clock distribution, chip assembly and P&R, timing closure.
• Daily work involves all aspects of physical chip development (RTL2
  
  GDS) – trial synthesis, power and clock distribution, place & route, timing closure, power and noise analysis and physical verification.

• BSEE / MSEE or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in VLSI physical design implementation on 5nm, 4nm and 3nm technology.
• Able to assist in design flow development and debugging, including application of ML/AI solutions.
• Already a validated strong power user of P&R, Timing Analysis, Physical Verification, IR Drop Analysis, CAD tools from Synopsys (ICC2/DC/PT/STAR/ICV), Cadence (Genus/Innovus/Tempus) and other major EDA companies.
• Confirmed prior experience in timing closure, clock/power distribution and analysis, RC extraction and correlation, place/ route and tapeout solutions.
• To be successful you should possess strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Proficiency using Python, Perl, Tcl, Make scripting is helpful.
• Great teammate.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $116,000 - $189,750 USD for Level2, and $136,000 - $218,500 USD for Level
3. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until February3,2026.

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NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.