Senior Software R&D Engineer, VLSI Physical Design (Hiring Immediately)

NVIDIA’s success builds on a foundation of industry‑leading hardware. We develop internal EDA tools powered by parallel computing, machine learning and specialized algorithms for VLSI design. We are seeking a Senior R&D Software Engineer with proven experience in VLSI Physical Design Algorithms (sizing, buffering, CTS, legalization, incremental place and route, etc.). Understanding both software and hardware aspects is key. Creativity and a self‑drive to explore and perfect fast, high‑capacity software is required. What you’ll be doing: Invent new optimization engines that fuse traditionally independent engines (e.g., co‑optimization of legalization and sizing) to increase chip frequency while minimizing power consumption across a suite of internal optimization tools. Improve algorithms (in C++) for gate‑level sizing, buffering, useful clock skew, cell legalization, power minimization, ECO routing, and incremental parasitic extraction. Own the whole process from discovery and invent...