About the Role
We are looking for a physical design engineer to be a part of NVIDIA's physical design (PD) methodology team driving innovation in PD across all of NVIDIA's products – Datacenter AI, HPC, Networking, Robotics, Autonomous driving, gaming and more. As the cadence of NVIDIA's chip cycle shortens, it poses new challenges for physical design teams to not only deliver the best PPA on the chips, but to also do it at scale, in the shortest possible time. Your work in physical design methodology directly enables our speed to market in delivering industry's leading chip hardware. This role provides a unique opportunity to innovate at the cutting edge of process technology, EDA tools, and PD flows through collaboration with RTL, synthesis, DFT, foundry, timing and other cross functional teams to push the limits of physical design at scale.
What You'll Be Doing
•Developing innovative physical design methodologies for implementation of GPU, CPU, Network processors and SOC, with emphasis on PPA (Power, Performance, Area) and runtime improvement of the physical design flow on advanced technology nodes
•Work with internal and external partners to drive tool and methodology improvements to deliver best-in-class PPA solutions across all our product lines
•Use AI/ML approaches to CAD to improve design performance and turnaround time, while improving efficiency and productivity of designers
What We Need to See
•MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
•Minimum 7 years of experience in Physical Design; emphasis on methodology and flow development is highly preferred
•Proven track record of PPA improvement on high performance and low power designs in advanced technology nodes
•Strong understanding of physical design optimization and routing methodologies at place, cts, route and postroute, especially power and area efficient setup and hold optimization
•Strong background in STA, extraction, timing and RC correlation
•Experience in low power design with UPF, and use of FSDB/SAIFs for power optimization
•Solid understanding of EM and IR analysis and closure
•Understanding of synthesis, hierarchical design, pinning and budgeting flows
•Experience with power distribution networks, Design for Yield and Manufacturability and thermal management
•Expertise and in-depth knowledge of industry standard EDA tools and proficiency in programming and scripting languages, such as TCL, Perl, Python, and C++
Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd
•Experience applying ML models, LLMs, and agentic AI techniques to EDA/PD problems (analytics, prediction, optimization)
•Proficiency with data analysis/ML libraries (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.)
•Proficiency in Cadence EDA tool suite – Innovus/genus/tempus/quantus/joules etc.
Compensation
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 2, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
