Physical Design, VLSI - New College Grad 2027
Core
Physical Design Engineer for NVIDIA GPU and Mobile chips, handling full chip floorplanning, place & route, timing closure, and power/signal integrity analysis.
Role type
Physical Design Engineer (IC)
Builds
GPU and Mobile chips
Domain
Semiconductor / VLSI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
EDA tools (Synopsys ICC2/DC/PT/STAR-RC, Cadence EDI/Innovus/Voltus, Mentor Olympus-SOC), Clock/Power Distribution, P&R, Timing closure, RC Extraction, Physical verification
Preferred skills
FinFET technology, circuit design, package design, physical verification tools (Synopsys ICV, Mentor Calibre), scripting (Perl, Python, TCL, Makefile)
Responsibilities
Full chip floorplanning, power/clock distribution, timing optimization, place & route, timing closure, power/signal integrity analysis, physical verification, troubleshooting design and flow issues, collaborating with RTL, DFT, and Circuit designers
Seniority
Entry-level (New College Grad)
