# ASIC Floorplan Design Engineer - New College Grad 2026

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a talented ASIC Floorplan Engineer to design and implement the world's leading SoC's and GPU's. This position offers a unique opportunity to craft and influence the design and development of the next generation GPU and SoC, allowing you to have real impact in a dynamic, technology-focused company impacting product lines ranging from consumer graphics to self-driving cars and the growing field of artificial intelligence.

**What you will be doing:**

- Working with architects, design leads, physical design leads and package leads, you will develop and craft and optimize floorplans during early chip development.

- Drive the area review process and collaborate with the ASIC design team to identify area, interconnect and floorplan improvement opportunities.

- Solve timing and routing congestion issues with physical and ASIC design teams by influencing early design and physical implementation decisions.

- You will build tools and improve existing infrastructure to optimize chip area and speed of execution.

**What we need to see:**

- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.

- A deep hardware engineering background with a concentration in VLSI and/or Computer Architecture.

- Experience in Verilog, System Verilog or similar HVL.

- Experience with CAD and physical design methodologies (flow and tool development), chip floorplan, power/clock distribution, packaging, P&R and timing closure.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability & desire to work as a great teammate should be displayed in your interview.

- Python, Perl and C/C++ programming language experience.

**Ways to stand out from the crowd:**

- Experience in driving development of large scale ASIC floorplan is a huge plus.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Computer Engineering
- VLSI
- Computer Architecture
- Verilog
- System Verilog
- CAD
- physical design methodologies
- Python
- Perl
- C/C++

### Nice to have
- large scale ASIC floorplan

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