Nvidia Senior Software Engineer Place Route Tools 

United States, Texas 

813439739

What you’ll be doing:

• Invent and optimize new methods for high capacity detailed placement, especially for maximizing the performance of datapath logic within a suite of internal optimization tools. These tools already outperform the industry's alternatives in high capacity timing optimization and will advance even further with your contributions.

• 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:

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

• 5+ years experience in one or more of these areas: place & route, spatial data structures, and design optimization.

• Expertise in C++

• Thorough understanding of detailed placement, including incorporation of routing and timing algorithms.

• Deep understanding of algorithm design principles such as complexity analysis, efficient memory and I/O use, etc.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Expertise in high speed arithmetic design

• C++17/C++14 experience, such as lambdas and concurrency

• Experience in parallel computing, especially if you have used CUDA

• Experience with reinforcement learning, GNNs (Graph Neural Networks), LLMs (Large Language Models) and other relevant machine learning frameworks, especially as applied to physical design