NVIDIA
Senior Physical Design Engineer
$168K–$310K
US, CA, Santa Clara +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, TX, Austin - Experience
- 8+ years.
- Education
- BSEE (MSEE preferred) or equivalent experience.
About the job
Implements physical design for GPUs and other ASICs, including floorplanning, power and clock distribution, place-and-route, timing closure, and verification.
What you'll do
- Establish physical-design methodologies and flow automation; contribute to floorplanning, power/clock distribution, chip assembly, place-and-route, and timing closure.
- Perform static timing, power and noise analysis, and back-end verification.
- Deliver physical-design implementations for GPU and other ASIC products.
What they ask for
- BSEE or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of large VLSI physical design implementation experience on 5nm, 4nm and 3nm technology.
- Track record of delivering designs to production.
- Experience with timing closure, clock/power distribution and analysis, RC extraction and correlation, place/route, and tapeout solutions.
Nice to have
- MSEE preferred.
- Power, Performance and Area improvement initiatives; proficiency in Python, Perl, Tcl, Make scripting is helpful.
Pay
168,000 USD - 264,500 USD (base salary); 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Synopsys (ICC2/DC/PT/STAR-RC/ICV), Cadence (Innovus, Tempus, SeaHawk ), Mentor Graphics, Python, Perl, Tcl, Make
AI focus
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes; the role does not state AI work as a job responsibility.
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