# Physical Design and Timing Engineer – Intern

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $20 - $71 per hour
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are now looking for a motivated Physical Design and Timing Engineer – Intern to join our dynamic and growing team.

**Job Description:** As a Physical Design and Timing Engineer – Intern, you will drive physical design, power, and timing closure for high-frequency and low-power designs. You will help drive frontend and backend implementation in select areas, from RTL to GDSII, and run physical design experiments to help develop flows and methodologies.

**Responsibilities:**

- Drive physical design, power, and timing closure for high-frequency and low-power designs.

- Help drive frontend and backend implementation in select areas, from RTL to GDSII.

- Run physical design experiments and help develop flows and methodologies.

**Requirements:**

- Pursuing an MS or Ph.D. in Electrical or Computer Engineering.

- Familiarity with applying AI/ML techniques to physical design workflows to accelerate design, analysis, or automation tasks.

- Knowledge of or experience with Static Timing Analysis (STA), power analysis, and power reduction.

- Some experience in logic synthesis and equivalence checking.

- Experience with physical optimization, e.g., placement, routing, clock tree, etc.

- Some background in industry-standard EDA tools (e.g., Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, etc.).

- Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Perl, Tcl, Make, Python, etc.

**Nice to Have:**

- Hands-on experience applying AI/ML models or LLM-based tools to solve EDA, design automation, or physical design problems.

- Previous work experience in physical design.

- Experience in methodology and/or flow development/automation.

**Interview Process:** The interview process for this internship will include submitting a solution to a technical problem in the form of a short PowerPoint slide deck.

**Benefits:** You will also be eligible for Intern benefits.

**Pay Rate:** The hourly rate for our interns is $20 - $71 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- Physical Design
- Timing Closure
- Static Timing Analysis
- Power Analysis
- Logic Synthesis
- Equivalence Checking
- Physical Optimization
- EDA Tools
- Programming Languages

### Nice to have
- AI/ML Techniques
- Physical Design Workflows
- LLM-based Tools
- Methodology Development
- Flow Automation

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