# Senior Software R&D Engineer, VLSI Physical Design

NVIDIA's success builds on a foundation of industry leading hardware. We achieve distinction through extensive design optimization, including combining the best of external EDA with highly optimized, internal EDA tools. Our team develops these tools by fusing advances in parallel computing, machine learning, and specialized algorithms for VLSI design. We are seeking a Senior R&D Software Engineer with proven experience in multiple areas of VLSI Physical Design Algorithms (sizing, buffering, CTS, legalization, incremental place and route etc.). Understanding both software and hardware aspects is the key. Creativity and self-drive to explore and perfect fast, high-capacity software is required. If you like to work across many technical areas and see your successes directly realized in the world's best AI hardware, it does not get any better than this! Developing software within a leading hardware company means getting to almost exclusively focus on the latest processes and most advanced designs. We're not bogged down by legacy support, niche roles, or convoluted approval processes. Our developers enjoy unusually high intellectual freedom and the ability to explore broad roles. What y

- **Id**: 4342285
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nvidia-senior-software-rd-engineer-vlsi-physical-design>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States, Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T19:11:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 16
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Servers & Data Center Hardware, Computer Components, AI Chips & Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 6
- **Name**: NVIDIA
- **Domain**: nvidia.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nvidia>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

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- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 742
- **Ghost share**: 0.023
- **Stale share**: 0.616
- **Repost share**: 0.053
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 168000
- **Max**: 264500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 264500

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Synopsys PrimeTime** — Optional: no
- **Synopsys StarRC** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 16

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-15T19:11:36Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2,856 · green card filings: 799; Filings 12m: 2856

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- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 16
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T20:40:38Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 264500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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