Senior Physical Design and Timing Engineer

- Drive physical design and timing of high-frequency and low-power NVIDIA CPUs, GPUs, LPUs and SoCs at block level, cluster level, and/or full chip level.

- Help in driving frontend and backend implementation from RTL to gds2, including synthesis, equivalence checking, floor-planning, timing constraints, timing and power convergence, and ECO implementation.

- Work in a cross-functional environment interacting with multiple teams.

- BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 5+ years of experience, or MS (or equivalent experience) with 3+ years of experience in physical design, synthesis, and timing.

- Strong hands-on experience taking complex blocks, IPs, or chips from RTL/netlist to tapeout through logic synthesis, floorplanning, placement, clock-tree synthesis, routing, physical optimization, signoff, and ECOs.

- Demonstrated success improving power, performance, and area through design improvements, critical-path planning and crafting, or methodology/workflow improvements.

- Hands-on experience in block, sub-chip, and full-chip level Static Timing Analysis, timing-constraint development, and multi-mode, multi-corner timing closure factoring in process variations, IR drop, and Xtalk.

- Expertise and in-depth knowledge of industry-standard EDA tools.

- Proficiency in Python, Tcl, Perl, Make, or similar scripting languages as well as AI/ML/DL/LLMs.

- Physical design experience on high-performance CPUs, GPUs, LPUs, or AI accelerator designs.

- Expertise or innovation in advanced physical design & circuits optimizations, clocking, or timing-closure strategies.

- Experience in developing scalable optimization and signoff solutions through automation or AI/Agentic framework.

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 24, 2026.