Physical Design Engineer

Overview

• We are now looking for a Physical Design Engineer.
• VLSI Physical Design Team at NVIDIA Shanghai has been built up since 2005.
• The team has made contribution to various successful products launched by NVIDIA Corporation over 15 years.
• We utilize latest process technology, advanced EDA tools, and sophisticated design methodology.
• We always work on the most challenging designs, and push for performance limit.
• What you’ll be doing: A role in physical design for NVIDIA GPU and Mobile chips.
• Participate in various aspects of physical design, including full chip floorplanning, power/clock distribution, timing optimization, place & route, timing closure, power/signal integrity analysis, and physical verification.
• Troubleshoot a wide variety of design and flow complicated issues, and apply proactive intervention Collaborate with RTL, DFT and Circuit designers to ensure high quality of design implementation.
• What we need to see: BS in Engineering or Science or equivalent experience.
• Power user of EDA tools from Synopsys (ICC2/FC/PT/STAR-RC), Cadence (EDI/Innovus/Voltus).
• Experience in Clock/Power Distribution, P&R, Timing closure, RC Extraction, and verification on advanced technology nodes.
• 2+ years of experience in above areas.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd: MS in Engineering or Science.
• Knowledge in FinFET technology, circuit design, and package design.
• Experience in physical verification tools from Synopsys (ICV) or Mentor (Calibre).
• Proficiency in Perl, Python, TCL and Makefile scripts.