Physical Design Engineer

Job Title

Physical Design Engineer

Role Summary

As a Physical Design Engineer on NVIDIA's GPU and ASIC design team in Bengaluru, you will lead block and chip-level physical design (PD) activities across the RTL-to-GDSII flow. The role focuses on floorplanning, place-and-route, STA/CTS, physical verification, and collaboration with RTL and verification teams to meet timing, power, and area targets.

This is a hands-on implementation role responsible for driving RTL-to-GDSII flow improvements, debugging tool and design issues, and delivering production-quality physical implementations.

Experience Level

Mid-level — typically requires 2+ years of experience in physical design.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include:

• Lead block and chip-level physical design activities including floorplanning, placement, and routing.
• Perform RC extraction, PNR, CTS, STA, EM/IR analysis, DRC checks, and schematic-to-layout verification.
• Collaborate with RTL, logic, and verification teams to resolve design and timing issues.
• Debug tool and design-related problems and support team members in troubleshooting.
• Drive improvements in the RTL-to-GDSII flow to improve performance, power, and area (PPA).
• Own physical implementation tasks for GPU and other ASIC projects targeting desktop, mobile, and AI markets.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience:

• 2+ years of hands-on physical design experience at block and/or full-chip level.
• Strong understanding of RTL-to-GDSII implementation: synthesis, place & route, CTS, timing convergence, and layout closure.
• Experience with industry P&R and STA tool flows (e.g. Innovus/ICC2, Synopsys flows, Primetime/Tempus or equivalents).
• Familiarity with timing constraints, static timing analysis (STA), and timing closure techniques.
• Experience with physical verification, EM/IR analysis, and DRC resolution.
• Automation and scripting skills (Perl, Tcl, Make or similar) for tool integration and flow development.
• Ability to multitask, work in a global engineering environment, and communicate effectively across teams.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with high-frequency design methodologies and large full-chip floorplanning on complex SoCs/GPUs.

Education Requirements

BE / B.Tech / M.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: NVIDIA

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.