Senior Custom CAD Engineer - For Custom Circuit Designers at NVIDIA

You're a seasoned Electrical Engineer with a strong EE background, ideally with a Master's degree and 3+ years of experience, or a Bachelor's and 5+ years, poss

Work type: hybrid

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara | US, TX, Austin | US, OR, Hillsboro

Salary: $136,000 – $264,500/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

You're a seasoned Electrical Engineer with a strong EE background, ideally with a Master's degree and 3+ years of experience, or a Bachelor's and 5+ years, possessing a deep understanding of circuits, layouts, and VLSI design, and a passion for automating design processes through code. **What makes it worth a look...** This Senior Custom CAD Engineer role at NVIDIA, located in Santa Clara, Austin, or Hillsboro, offers a compelling base salary range of $136,000 to $264,500 USD annually, with eligibility for equity and benefits, within a rapidly growing, forward-thinking engineering team. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have extensive experience with Perl, Python, and Cadence SKILL for scripting and automation. * Are proficient in supporting and maintaining CAD tools like Virtuoso, IC-Manage, HSPICE, and ADE. * Possess a basic understanding of MOSFET device behavior and CMOS layout. * Have experience with version control systems such as Perforce.

Job Description

NVIDIA is searching for a highly motivated, excellent 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, Perl and Python 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

Support 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:

B.S. (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of experience or M.S. in Electrical Engineering and 3+ years’ experience

A basic understanding of MOSFET device behavior, CMOS layout, and VLSI design

Excellent programming skills

Experience with Perl, Cadence SKILL, Python, Tcl

Great communication skills

Passionate about providing excellent support for end-users

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Experience developing pcells in photonics processes

Familiarity with Analog Design Environment (ADE), including the ability to interact with designers to collect bugs and follow up with AEs on bug fixes

Experience with version control system, like Perforce

Familiarity with LSF or similar job scheduling systems for distributed computing.

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!

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and [benefits](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/).

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until April 18, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

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.

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