CareerPlan

Senior Circuit Design Engineer

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$136k–$219k2026-10-19 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Designing innovative circuits for hardware security, adaptive clocking, and power management in deep submicron technologies for NVIDIA's next-generation products.

Role type

Senior IC circuit design engineer (digital/low-power)

Builds

Custom digital IPs, hardware security modules, and power management solutions for GPUs and AI accelerators

Domain

Semiconductor hardware design, deep submicron digital circuits, AI hardware

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Transistor-level circuit design, RTL to layout implementation, Spice simulations, EM/IR analysis, static timing analysis (STA), low-power circuit design, Python/Perl/Tcl scripting

Preferred skills

Mixed signal circuit design, RTL logic synthesis and verification, post-silicon characterization, automation methods

Technologies

Custom design flows, DRC/LVS tools, PnR tools, GPU architecture

Responsibilities

Drive design and physical implementation of custom digital IPs from RTL to layout; perform transistor-level analysis and power/performance optimization; develop prototypes on test chips; mentor junior team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC