# Senior Circuit Timing Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a Senior Circuit Timing Engineer to join our team. You'll work on groundbreaking processor design in deep submicron technologies, collaborating with a global circuits team to design innovative circuits for hardware security, adaptive clocking, and power management solutions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Participate in processor design in deep submicron technologies

- Work with a global circuits team to design innovative circuits for hardware security, adaptive clocking, and power management solutions

- Drive timing analysis and signoff of custom circuit macros (digital, semi-custom, and analog mixed-signal)

- Validate timing of custom circuit designs using STA tools, including Nanotime, PrimeTime, Tempus, and various SPICE simulation tools

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve power, performance, area, and reliability of NVIDIA's next-generation products through custom circuit solutions and detailed transistor-level analysis

- Develop timing models and methodology for innovative and unique custom macro designs

- Perform transistor-level circuit design and timing, schematic entry, and layout delivery

- Integrate AI/ML techniques directly into the design process and methodology

- Work with PD, DFX, Clocks, and other teams on timing signoff strategy, timing constraints, timing and power convergence, DFT, and timing ECO implementation

**Requirements:**

- BSEE/MS preferred in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

- 6+ years of digital circuit design experience for Masters and 8+ years for Bachelors

- Excellent understanding of deep submicron process issues and digital circuit design techniques

- Expertise and in-depth knowledge of industry-standard STA tools such as Nanotime, Primetime, Tempus, and other timing analysis tools

- Hands-on experience running Spice simulations, EM/IR analysis, and static timing analysis/closure

- Proven experience in timing constraints generation and management

- Hands-on experience in design and analysis of low-power circuits (power gating, decaps, multi-vt, etc.) is a plus

- Expertise in analysis and fixing of timing paths through ECOs, including crosstalk and glitch noise

- Solid understanding of extracted timing models and the usage of .libs in Primetime

- Knowledge of process variation effect modeling and experience in design convergence in multi-GHz deep submicron technology

**Nice to Have:**

- Proven ownership and hands-on experience across the entire silicon design flow, from micro-architecture and RTL design to back-end execution

- Proven capability in Post-Silicon characterization and debug, ensuring designs meet performance targets in hardware

- Track record of independently driving and delivering complex features from conception through tape-out and validation

- Knowledge of timing closure strategies for digital logic/macros part of AMS designs/IPs

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- digital circuit design
- STA tools
- Nanotime
- PrimeTime
- Tempus
- SPICE simulation tools
- timing analysis
- power management
- hardware security

### Nice to have
- Post-Silicon characterization
- debug
- timing closure strategies
- AMS designs/IPs

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