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About Nvidia
Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing
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As a Senior Software R&D Engineer, VLSI Physical Design, you will join a team developing internal EDA tools by fusing parallel computing, machine learning, and specialized algorithms for advanced hardware designs. You will invent new optimization engines to co-optimize processes like legalization and sizing to increase chip frequency while minimizing power consumption. Your daily work involves improving C++ algorithms for gate-level sizing, buffering, useful clock skew, cell legalization, power minimization, ECO routing, and incremental parasitic extraction. The role requires expertise in VLSI timing optimization, including cell libraries, interconnect models, crosstalk, glitches, IR drop, and timing constraints. You will utilize tools such as ICC2, Innovus, PrimeTime, Tempus, and StarRC, while utilizing Perl, Tcl, and Python for design flows. Advanced skills include multithreading, distributed computing, reinforcement learning, and Graph Neural Networks applied to physical design.
C++
EDA
Physical Design
Routing Algorithms
Machine Learning
SAT Solvers
LLMs
Reinforcement Learning
GNNs
Combinatorial Optimization
Data Structures
Algorithm Development
DFT
IR Drop Reduction
Logic Synthesis
Power Distribution
Parallel Computing