Nvidia Senior VLSI CAD Engineer ECO Tools - New College Grad 

United States, Texas 

179967157

What you’ll be doing:

• Innovate across the entire VLSI flow to make incremental recovery and optimization fast and seamless. This will primarily involve C++ and includes improving or replacing in-house algorithms for steps such as incremental CTS (clock tree synthesis), 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

• As with any software engineering team, we do write a lot of code, but this is broader than a typical CAD or EDA role. Instead, we as a team own the whole process from discovery and invention of new optimization opportunities, to developing solutions and working directly inside design teams to facilitate deployment.

What we need to see:

• Recent graduate with a MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering (or related field) or equivalent experience.

• Experience across VLSI, including exposure to synthesis, clocks, DFT, power distribution, timing, and place & route.

• Proficiency in C++.

• Some familiarity with use of SAT solvers and packages for logic minimization.

• Insight and curiosity about boosting design team efficiency through intuitive GUIs and APIs.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Prior experience, especially in physical design, is a plus.

• Experience with GUI frameworks, especially ImGui or Qt.

• Background in synthesis and timing tools, including Design Compiler, Fusion Compiler, and PrimeTime.

• Experience in using AI-coding assistants such as Cursor.

• Background with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl.