Senior ASIC Floorplan Design Engineer
NVIDIA
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About the opportunity
NVIDIA is seeking an experienced ASIC Floorplan Engineer to design and implement industry-leading SOCs, CPUs, and GPUs.
This role offers the opportunity to influence the development of next-generation GPUs and SoCs from the early architecture phase through physical design, impacting product lines ranging from consumer graphics to self-driving cars and artificial intelligence.
Key responsibilities
- Partner with product managers, chip architects, ASIC design, physical design, and packaging teams from the early chip definition phase to craft floorplans optimizing cost, area, performance, and power.
- Drive floorplan development and collaborate with ASIC and physical design teams to resolve area, interconnect, timing, and floorplan challenges.
- Develop AI workflows and productivity tools to continuously improve infrastructure for chip area optimization and execution speed.
- Identify technical and product risks and collaborate with engineering and management teams to implement mitigation strategies.
Qualifications
- MSEE/MSCE (or equivalent experience) with broad and deep expertise in chip development.
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience.
- Experience developing SOC, CPU, graphics, memory, and I/O sub-systems in chips.
- Ability to multi-task across simultaneous projects and drive resolution of complex technical issues.
- Experience with physical design methodologies, flow and tool development, chip floorplans, power, clock, and reset distribution, DFT, place and route, timing closure, and packaging.
- Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills.
- Proficiency in Agentic AI workflows, Python, Perl, and/or C++ programming languages.
Nice to have
- Experience driving large-scale ASIC floorplan development for chiplet-based SOC and/or CPU projects.
- Strong algorithm development and programming skills.
- Ability to operate effectively with incomplete data, evolving requirements, and tight schedules.
Benefits
- Base salary range of 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD, determined by location, experience, and peer pay.
- Eligibility for equity and benefits.
Job details
- Applications will be accepted at least until October 18, 2026.
- This posting is for an existing vacancy.
About the company
NVIDIA is a leader in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Driving, High-Performance Computing, and Visualization, driven by a global team of forward-thinking professionals pushing the boundaries of computing.
Additional information
- NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
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