Senior CAD Engineer, Custom Circuit Designers (Santa Clara)

Advanced CAD Engineer Position

NVIDIA is searching for a highly motivated CAD Engineer to join the Advanced Technologies group. You will develop tools that help improve productivity of custom circuit designers worldwide. A successful candidate will have solid EE background with an in-depth understanding of circuits, layouts and VLSI design. We are looking for someone who loves to write code to automate design processes and who enjoys working in groundbreaking process technologies! A strong background in Skill and Perl are needed for this position. The job involves both development and support. The candidate must have good interpersonal skills.

What you'll be doing :

• Develop and support component libraries for advanced process technologies. This will involve developing and maintaining technology files, symbols, gates and pcells, and supporting various netlisters
• Install, configure and support foundry PDKs
• Maintain the custom design environment used by custom schematic and mask designers
• Write scripts using perl, python, and Cadence SKILL
• We use a variety of standard off-the-shelf EDA tools at NVIDIA. You would be responsible for supporting and maintain CAD tools used by IC designers including Virtuoso, IC-Manage, HSPICE, ADE, various simulation tools and Verilog / System Verilog
• Work with CAD tool vendors to evaluate new tools, solve bugs, improve usability, etc.
• Develop infrastructure to support design work in new process technologies.

What we need to see :

NVIDIA has some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is $168,000 - $310,500. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.