NVIDIA
Senior ASIC Design Engineer
$168K–$310K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, NC, Durham - Experience
- 8+ years of proven experience working on ASIC design and development.
- Education
- Master’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
About the job
Implements GPU subsystem modules, from microarchitecture and RTL through verification and timing-clean design, and supports post-silicon validation.
What you'll do
- Make architectural trade-offs based on features, performance requirements, and system limitations.
- Own microarchitecture and implement RTL; deliver fully verified, synthesis/timing-clean designs.
- Support post-silicon validation and collaborate with architecture, verification, synthesis, timing, and back-end teams.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
- 8+ years of proven experience in ASIC design and development.
- Experience in microarchitecture and RTL development of complex designs in Verilog.
- Required exposure to digital systems, VLSI design, computer architecture, computer arithmetic, CMOS transistors and circuits, and understanding of the ASIC design flow.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with arbiters, scheduling, synchronization, bus protocols, interconnect networks, and/or caches.
- Knowledge or design experience with PCI-Express (Gen 3 and above) or CXL; Python, Perl, and C/C++ experience is desirable.
Pay
168,000 USD - 264,500 USD (base salary, Level 4); 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD (base salary, Level 5)
Tools
Verilog, PCI-Express (Gen 3 and above), CXL, Python, Perl, C/C++
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