Role at a glance
- Salary
- $136K – $264.5K/yr
- Location
- 2 Locations, California, United States
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant work experience.
- Education
- BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience (MS preferred)
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Role Summary
The clocks group designs GPU and CPU clocking for NVIDIA ASICs, working across front-end design, physical implementation, software, verification, timing, DFT, and silicon solution teams. The role covers clock architecture and implementation through sign-off and silicon bring-up, with a focus on meeting functional, physical, testing, power, performance, and area requirements.
What You'll Do
- Architect clock domains to satisfy functional, physical, and testing design requirements.
- Design GPU or CPU clocks while balancing architectural, design, and physical constraints.
- Evaluate PPA trade-offs and implement new clocking topologies in RTL.
- Collaborate with physical design and timing teams to address clocking concerns and support high-speed clocking.
- Deliver clock RTL information to GPU, CPU, and SoC verification, timing, and DFT teams.
- Participate in ASIC execution from microarchitecture and implementation through design fixes, sign-off checks, and silicon bring-up.
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View full postingQualifications
BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience; 3+ years of relevant work experience; deep understanding of logic optimization techniques and PPA trade-offs; excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills; experience in RTL design using Verilog, verification, and logic synthesis; strong coding skills in Python or other industry-standard scripting languages.
Required
- BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of relevant work experience
- Logic optimization techniques and PPA trade-offs
- Interpersonal and collaboration skills
- RTL design using Verilog, verification, and logic synthesis
- Python or other industry-standard scripting languages
Preferred
- MS in Electrical Engineering
- Understanding of sub-micron silicon issues, including noise, cross-talk, and OCV effects
- Implementing on-chip clocking networks
- Experience with clock controllers and clock logic design
- Understanding of system-level artifacts such as power and noise
- Experience with scalable designs and architecture
- Hands-on silicon debug
Original job description
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Original job description
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The clocks group is looking for a top-notch ASIC engineer to join the team. The Team is responsible for crafting all aspects of GPU and CPU clocking. The team collaborates with the front design team to understand the clocking requirements for the chip. The clocks team interacts with the floor-planning and back end team to help craft the physical floorplan of the chip. The team explains the programming model to the SW team to come up with an efficient clock programming sequence. The team works with the silicon solution team to triage silicon or programming bugs in the lab.
NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to solve, that only we can take on, and that matter to the world. This is our life’s work, to amplify human creativity and intelligence. Make the choice to join us today.
What you'll be doing:
As a Clocks team member, you will be architecting the clock domain to satisfy functional, physical and testing design requirements.
Engage with multiple teams and design the GPU or CPU clocks to satisfy all the architectural/design/physical constraints.
Improve Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) of innovative NVIDIA chips by evaluating trade-offs across DFx, Physical Implementation, Power Optimization and Ease of timing closure to innovate and implement new Clocking topologies in RTL.
Collaborate with Physical design and timing team to evaluate Clocking concerns and develop solutions for supporting high speed Clocking.
Together with other team members, we deliver clock RTL information to GPU, CPU and SOC verification team, timing and DFT teams.
Get involved in end-to-end cycle of ASIC execution starting from micro-arch, design implementation, design fixes, sign-off checks and all the way to Silicon bringup.
What we need to see:
BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience (MS preferred)
3+ years of relevant work experience.
Deep understanding of logic optimization techniques and PPA trade-offs.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams.
Experience in RTL design (Verilog), verification and logic synthesis.
Strong coding skills in python or other industry-standard scripting languages.
Understanding of sub-micron silicon issues like noise, cross-talk, and OCV effects is a plus.
Implementing on-chip clocking networks is a bonus
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Experience with clocks controller, clocks logic design
Understanding of system level artifacts like power, noise, etc
Experience with scalable designs and architecture.
Hands- on silicon debug is a plus.
With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most brilliant people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our teams are rapidly growing. Are you passionate about becoming a part of a best-in-class team supporting the latest in GPU and AI technology? If so, we want to hear from you.
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You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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About the company
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA is a leading technology company renowned for its graphics processing units (GPUs) and innovative computing solutions that enhance visual experiences across multiple platforms, including gaming, scientific research, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1993, the company has expanded its offerings to include powerful AI frameworks and deep learning platforms, making significant contributions to industries such as gaming, data centers, automotive, and healthcare. NVIDIA's commitment to pushing the boundaries of visual computing continues to drive advancements in both hardware and software, positioning the company at the forefront of emerging technologies and digital transformation.
NVIDIA is a leading technology company renowned for its graphics processing units (GPUs) and innovative computing solutions that enhance visual experiences across multiple platforms, including gaming, scientific research, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1993, the company has expanded its offerings to include powerful AI frameworks and deep learning platforms, making significant contributions to industries such as gaming, data centers, automotive, and healthcare. NVIDIA's commitment to pushing the boundaries of visual computing continues to drive advancements in both hardware and software, positioning the company at the forefront of emerging technologies and digital transformation.