Physical Design AI Engineer

NVIDIA is seeking passionate, highly motivated, and creative engineers to join our Physical Design AI team. In this role, you will combine deep physical design knowledge with modern AI technologies to build intelligent, scalable solutions for our Physical Design Implementation teams.

You will work closely with domain experts to understand complex implementation challenges and develop agentic AI solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, and quality across NVIDIA product lines.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Physical Design Implementation teams to understand complex problems and build agentic AI solutions for all product lines.
• Deliver efficient, token-optimized AI solutions that consistently produce high-quality outputs.
• Provide continuous support, maintenance, and enhancements for AI solutions.
• Benchmark solutions across various AI models to evaluate and improve their effectiveness.
• Research and innovate new AI methods to address evolving physical design challenges.
• Build robust regression testbenches to validate the quality, reliability, and performance of AI solutions.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in Physical Design with BE/BTech/MTech degree, or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of the RTL-to-GDSII flow and design implementation in leading process technologies, including synthesis, place and route, clock tree synthesis, timing convergence, and layout closure.
• Good understanding of AI concepts such as tokens, KV cache, context windows, skills, agents, subagents, and hooks.
• Hands-on experience with AI tools such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor.
• Strong knowledge and experience in standard place-and-route flows.
• Experience with Synopsys ICC2 and Cadence Innovus flows is preferred.
• Good automation skills in Tcl, Python, and tool-specific scripting for one or more industry-leading place-and-route tools.
• Ability to multitask and work effectively in a global environment.
• Excellent communication skills, strong motivation, and strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.