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ASIC Floorplan Design Engineer - New College Grad 2026

NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA entry full-time

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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

Nice to have

  • large scale ASIC floorplan
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