# Senior Software R&D Engineer, VLSI Physical Design

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a creative and passionate Senior Software R&D Engineer specializing in VLSI Physical Design. This role focuses on algorithms for placement, global routing, floorplanning, and optimizing physical design. You'll work on everything from computational geometry and placement to graph optimization and visualization. The software and tools you create will directly impact our ability to deliver next-generation architecture to the market. You'll be responsible for the logic that determines the physical layout, speed, and efficiency of the world's most advanced AI chips. Your algorithms won't just operate on hardware; they'll define it. If you enjoy solving challenging problems and seeing your work come to life in the fastest AI hardware, this is the perfect role for you!

**Responsibilities:** Implement, enhance, optimize, and deploy new tools for chip level placement, reshaping and route optimization. Create innovative algorithms for computational geometry, placement, fast routing etc. to efficiently arrange the blocks in a chip. Develop and implement new machine learning strategies to improve efficiency of design space exploration. Improve designer insight, debugging and visualization by extending GUIs built.

**Requirements:** BS, MS, PhD or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science Strength in both CAD software and VLSI hardware design 6+ years experience in software development with C++ Good understanding of computational geometry, placement, routing and graph theory Familiarity with design implementation tools such as ICC2, Innovus Expertise in algorithm development for physical design, analysis, and visualization Strong communication and interpersonal skills

**Nice to Have:** C++17/C++14 experience, such as lambdas and concurrency Deep understanding of algorithm design principles such as computational geometry, placement etc. Experience in high performance software design including multithreading, distributed computing, efficient memory and I/O use, etc. Highly driven to craft outstanding software towards improving PPA with a dedication to continuous improvement A tenacity for solving complex optimization challenges

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- VLSI Physical Design
- Computational Geometry
- Placement
- Routing
- Graph Theory
- Machine Learning
- GUI Development

### Nice to have
- C++17/C++14
- Algorithm Design Principles
- High Performance Software Design
- Multithreading
- Distributed Computing
- Efficient Memory and I/O Use

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