ASIC Clocks Design Engineer - New College Grad 2026

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara, US, TX, Austin

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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The clocks group is looking for an outstanding 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.

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 or higher in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience).

• 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.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Understanding of sub-micron silicon issues like noise, cross-talk, and OCV effects is a plus.

• Implementing on-chip clocking networks is a bonus.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be the leader of AI computing, and one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, 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 100,000 USD - 166,750 USD for Level 1, and 116,000 USD - 189,750 USD for Level 2.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until February 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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