# Senior Mask Design Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Are you a Mask Layout Design Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity? We are seeking a Senior Mask Layout Design Engineer to join our growing team of diverse individuals responsible for handling complex mixed-signal circuit designs. As a Senior Mask Layout Design Engineer, you will work collaboratively and multi-functionally with a multi-disciplinary team of Photonics, CMOS, Electronics, and Systems engineers.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Performing physical layout for mixed-signal functions like PLL's, high speed I/O circuits, general I/O's, ESD structures designs in innovative sub-micron CMOS technologies using Cadence tools

- Working with ASIC and mixed-signal engineers to customize designs for integration in VLSI products

- Floor planning, custom layout and verifying against design rules and schematics

- Fill, post-processing, DRC mitigation, and foundry interactions

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)

- At least 6+ years of hands-on layout design experience

- A deep understanding of analog circuit layout concepts in submicron CMOS technologies

- Validated experience with Cadence custom circuit design tools - particularly virtuoso

- Experience running and debugging DRC and LVS with verification tools such as Dracula, Hercules, Calibre, Primeyield

- Ability to work optimally in a team, good interpersonal skills and positive energy

- Proficiency in scripting languages like perl, python, skill etc. Knowledge of DRC and LVS checking flows, ability to customize DRC and LVS

If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you.

## Skills

### Required
- Cadence custom circuit design tools
- virtuoso
- DRC and LVS with verification tools
- Dracula
- Hercules
- Calibre
- Primeyield
- perl
- python
- scripting languages

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