AI-Driven Physical Design & Timing Intern

Socket.dev; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Intern benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara is seeking a motivated Physical Design and Timing Engineer – Intern to join our dynamic team. You will work on high-frequency, low-power designs and contribute to frontend and backend implementation from RTL to GDSII.

The internship emphasizes applying AI/ML to EDA workflows, timing and power analysis, and optimization, with hands-on experience in industry-standard tools and scripting.

Qualifications

• Pursuing an MS or Ph.D. in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• Familiarity with applying AI/ML techniques to physical design workflows to accelerate design, analysis, or automation tasks.
• Knowledge of or experience with Static Timing Analysis (STA), power analysis, and power reduction.
• Some experience in logic synthesis and equivalence checking.
• Experience with physical optimization, e.g., placement, routing, clock tree, etc.
• Some background in industry-standard EDA tools (e.g., Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, etc.).
• Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Perl, Tcl, Make, Python, etc.

Responsibilities

• Drive physical design, power, and timing closure for high-frequency and low-power designs.
• Help drive frontend and backend implementation in select areas, from RTL to GDSII.
• Run physical design experiments and help develop flows and methodologies.

Skills

AI/ML techniques

STA knowledge

Power analysis

Programming & scripting

Education

MS/PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Cadence

Synopsys

Siemens

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara is seeking a motivated Physical Design and Timing Engineer – Intern to join our dynamic team. You will work on high-frequency, low-power designs and contribute to frontend and backend implementation from RTL to GDSII.

The internship emphasizes applying AI/ML to EDA workflows, timing and power analysis, and optimization, with hands-on experience in industry-standard tools and scripting.