# Senior DTCO Engineer, CPU Physical Design

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior DTCO Engineer, you will evaluate advanced semiconductor foundry nodes to optimize next-generation CPU microarchitecture. You will coordinate between foundry partners, IP development, and hardware design teams to explore target technology nodes during early development phases.

**Responsibilities:**

- Evaluate advanced process technologies and help shape technology choices for next-generation CPUs.

- Run synthesis, place-and-route, and static timing analysis to assess how process features affect power, performance, and area.

- Work with foundry, IP, and hardware design teams during early technology development.

- Use early pathfinding blocks to identify implementation bottlenecks and project technology-node scaling.

- Evaluate competitive products and benchmarks to understand technology and design trade-offs.

**Requirements:**

- Master's or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- 5+ years of relevant experience.

- Strong background in advanced-node silicon design and physical-design methodology.

- Ability to analyze physical implementation constraints and develop technology solutions to improve PPA.

- Proficiency with Python, Tcl, Perl, or similar scripting languages, as well as AI tools.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with DTCO or technology pathfinding for high-performance CPUs, GPUs, or AI accelerators.

- Expertise in advanced circuit and physical-design optimization, clocking, memory, or timing-closure techniques.

- A track record of translating test-chip or silicon data into measurable product improvements.

- Strong technical leadership, with the ability to collaborate across organizations and turn complex technical trade-offs into clear recommendations.

**Benefits:**

- Highly competitive salaries

- Comprehensive benefits package

- Equity eligibility

- See www.nvidiabenefits.com/ for more information

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Physical-design methodology
- Python
- Tcl
- Perl
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- DTCO
- Technology pathfinding
- High-performance CPUs
- GPUs
- AI accelerators
- Circuit optimization
- Physical-design optimization
- Clocking
- Memory
- Timing-closure techniques

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