Senior VLSI CAD Engineer – ECO Tools
| Company | NVIDIA |
|---|---|
| Location | Austin, TX, USA, Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| Salary | $136000 – $264500 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)
- 3+ years experience broadly across VLSI, including exposure to synthesis, clocks, DFT, power distribution, timing, and place & route. Previous experience as a physical design engineer would be ideal.
- Proficiency in C++
- Some familiarity with use of SAT solvers and packages for logic minimization
- Insight and interest in boosting design team productivity through intuitive GUIs and APIs
Responsibilities
- Innovate across the entire VLSI flow to make incremental recovery and optimization fast and seamless, primarily involving C++ and improving or replacing in-house algorithms for steps such as incremental CTS, incremental scan insertion, power hookup, placement, timing optimization, etc.
- Educate RTL teams on best practices that you identify and advance.
- Help develop GUIs for design visualization and other tools to boost designer productivity.
- Over time, this role can expand to other areas of physical design implementation and analysis tools.
- Own the whole process from discovery and invention of new optimization opportunities, to developing solutions and working directly inside design teams to facilitate deployment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with GUI frameworks, especially ImGui or Qt
- Background with synthesis and timing tools, including Design Compiler, Fusion Compiler, and PrimeTime
- Experience in using AI-coding assistants such as Cursor
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills