Senior CPU Design Engineer - High-Impact, Hybrid + Equity

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 311,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Senior CPU Design Engineer to lead micro-architecture, RTL implementation, and high-speed CPU design efforts in a dynamic, technology-forward environment in Santa Clara, CA. The role collaborates with verification, physical design, and architecture teams to deliver scalable, power-efficient cores.

You will drive sub-system definitions, coordinate RTL delivery, and optimize for performance, timing, and power while contributing to floor planning, timing closure, and

Qualifications

• BS or MS in electrical engineering or computer engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of proven experience in micro-architecture and RTL development of complex, high speed designs, ideally in CPU subsystems.
• Exposure to Computer Architecture and Digital Systems design.
• Highly proficient in logic design, Verilog and/or SystemVerilog, with a deep understanding of physical design and VLSI.
• Strengths in scripting languages such as Perl, Python.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive the micro-architecture definition, feasibility studies and documentation of CPU sub-systems.
• Implement in RTL and coordinate execution with the verification team to ensure that the design is functional.
• Exercise logic design skills to optimize and meet performance, timing and power targets.
• Deliver a synthesis/timing clean design while working with the physical design team ensuring a routable and physically implementable design.
• Support hardware engineering activities including chip floor plan, power/clock distribution, chip assembly, timing closure, power and noise analysis, and back-end verification.
• Develop flows and tools as necessary in support of design activities.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Python/Perl scripting

Communication skills

CPU micro-architecture

Education

BS/MS in EE or CE

Tools

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a Senior CPU Design Engineer to lead micro-architecture, RTL implementation, and high-speed CPU design efforts in a dynamic, technology-forward environment in Santa Clara, CA. The role collaborates with verification, physical design, and architecture teams to deliver scalable, power-efficient cores.

You will drive sub-system definitions, coordinate RTL delivery, and optimize for performance, timing, and power while contributing to floor planning, timing closure, and