ASIC Design Engineer - Clocks IP

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, California seeks an ASIC clocking engineer to join the clocks team, shaping clocking for GPUs and CPUs and coordinating with front-end and back-end groups.

You will optimize power, performance and area, deliver clock RTL to verification teams, and participate in the full ASIC flow from micro-architecture through silicon bring-up.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience (MS preferred).
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Deep understanding of logic optimization techniques and PPA trade-offs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams.
• Experience in RTL design (Verilog), verification and logic synthesis.
• Strong coding skills in Python or other industry-standard scripting languages.
• Understanding of sub-micron silicon issues like noise, cross-talk, and OCV effects is a plus.
• Implementing on-chip clocking networks is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Architect the clock domain to satisfy functional, physical and testing requirements.
• Engage with multiple teams to design GPU/CPU clocks meeting architectural constraints.
• Improve Power, Performance and Area (PPA) by evaluating trade-offs across DFx, Physical Implementation, Power Optimization and timing closure for new clocking topologies in RTL.
• Collaborate with Physical design and timing teams to address clocking concerns and solutions for high-speed clocking.
• Deliver clock RTL information to GPU, CPU and SOC verification, timing and DFT teams.
• Participate in the end-to-end ASIC cycle from micro-arch and design fixes to silicon bring-up.

Skills

Python scripting

Verilog RTL design

Logic optimization

Collaboration

PPA trade-offs

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

MS preferred

Job description

The clocks group is looking for a top-notch ASIC engineer to join the team. The Team is responsible for crafting all aspects of GPU and CPU clocking. The team collaborates with the front design team to understand the clocking requirements for the chip. The clocks team interacts with the floor-planning and back end team to help craft the physical floorplan of the chip. The team explains the programming model to the SW team to come up with an efficient clock programming sequence. The team works with the silicon solution team to triage silicon or programming bugs in the lab.

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI - the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a "learning machine" that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to solve, that only we can take on, and that matter to the world. This is our life's work, to amplify human creativity and intelligence. Make the choice to join us today.

What you’ll be doing:

• As a Clocks team member, you will be architecting the clock domain to satisfy functional, physical and testing design requirements.
• Engage with multiple teams and design the GPU or CPU clocks to satisfy all the architectural/design/physical constraints.
• Improve Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) of innovative NVIDIA chips by evaluating trade-offs across DFx, Physical Implementation, Power Optimization and Ease of timing closure to innovate and implement new Clocking topologies in RTL.
• Collaborate with Physical design and timing team to evaluate Clocking concerns and develop solutions for supporting high speed Clocking.
• Together with other team members, we deliver clock RTL information to GPU, CPU and SOC verification team, timing and DFT teams.
• Get involved in end-to-end cycle of ASIC execution starting from micro-arch, design implementation, design fixes, sign-off checks and all the way to Silicon bringup.

What we need to see:

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience (MS preferred)
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Deep understanding of logic optimization techniques and PPA trade-offs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams.
• Experience in RTL design (Verilog), verification and logic synthesis.
• Strong coding skills in python or other industry-standard scripting languages.
• Understanding of sub-micron silicon issues like noise, cross-talk, and OCV effects is a plus.
• Implementing on-chip clocking networks is a bonus

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with clocks controller, clocks logic design
• Understanding of system level artifacts like power, noise, etc
• Experience with scalable designs and architecture.
• Hands- on silicon debug is a plus.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most brilliant people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our teams are rapidly growing. Are you passionate about becoming a part of a best-in-class team supporting the latest in GPU and AI technology? If so, we want to hear from you.

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 116,000 USD - 189,750 USD for Level 2, and 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 14, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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