NVIDIA
Senior ASIC Design Engineer - Agentic AI
$168K–$310K
US, CA, Santa Clara +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 26, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, TX, Austin
US, NC, Durham - Experience
- 8+ years of meaningful work experience.
- Education
- Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Develop agentic AI and ASIC design solutions, including micro-architecture, RTL, and verified designs, while creating design guidelines for GPU and SoC teams.
What you'll do
- Document and deliver guidelines for high-performance, power- and area-efficient RTL design.
- Develop agentic AI solutions to craft micro-architecture, implement RTL, and deliver verified, synthesis- and timing-clean designs.
- Collaborate with designers and tool and flow owners; build and deploy LLM-powered engineering assistants and dialogue systems.
What they ask for
- Experience in micro-architecture and RTL development (Verilog) for complex designs, and deep understanding of ASIC design flow.
- Required exposure to digital systems and VLSI design, computer architecture, and computer arithmetic.
- Proficiency in Python prototyping and foundational knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Experience fine-tuning large language models and building multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and vector databases.
Pay
168,000 USD - 264,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
Verilog, Python, LLM, RAG, vector databases
AI focus
Develop agentic AI for chip design, fine-tune large language models, build multi-agent systems and RAG pipelines, and deploy LLM-powered engineering assistants and multi-turn, multi-modal dialogue systems.
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