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Senior High-Performance ASIC Timing Engineer

Senior High-Performance ASIC Timing Engineer

CompanyNVIDIA
LocationSanta Clara, CA, USA
Salary$136000 – $264500
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 5+ years’ experience or MS (or equivalent experience) with 3+ years’ experience in ASIC Design and Timing
  • Hands-on experience in STA tools, ECO implementation, and timing closure of high-speed designs
  • Strong background and experience in timing constraints generation, clocking, process variations and signal integrity
  • Proficiency in programming and scripting languages, such as, Perl, Tcl, Python, etc. and ability to understand and improve existing flows and methodologies
  • Familiarity with methodology and tools, logic synthesis, equivalence checking
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Strong understanding of timing and physical design fundamentals

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute timing closure plans for NVIDIA’s next generation of high-performance IPs for CPU, GPU and SOC designs
  • Owning static timing analysis and convergence of high-performance designs
  • Responsible for all aspects of timing including setting up timing constraints, timing analysis and closure, ECO implementation, and timing methodologies
  • Finding the right tradeoffs and balance between power/area/congestions/etc.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with high performance mixed-signal designs, and SPICE simulation
  • Deep understanding of complex designs and the ability to plan and craft timing critical paths
  • Background and expertise in high frequency design closure at subsystem level
  • Ability to develop new methodologies/flows as well as workflows to aid timing convergence