Physical Design

NVIDIA

Internship · Santa Clara, CA · $20 – $71 / hour

NVIDIA is hiring interns for a 12-week full-time program focused on hardware ASIC design, where you'll contribute to real projects spanning chip architecture, physical design, and verification. The role suits students pursuing degrees in electrical or computer engineering who want hands-on experience with cutting-edge hardware development tools and methodologies.

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Intel

Full-time · $141,910 – $269,100

Intel is hiring a hardware engineer to develop full-chip physical design implementation flows, including placement, routing, clock synthesis, and power grid planning for advanced semiconductor designs. This role suits experienced engineers with a background in physical design and knowledge of EDA tools like Innovus.

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Micron Technology

Full-time · $164,000 – $358,000

This role leads ASIC architecture and pathfinding work at Micron, focusing on defining next-generation compute designs 3–5 years ahead of product launch. It suits experienced chip architects who can bridge system-level strategy with RTL implementation and work across cross-functional teams to drive technical roadmaps.

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Broadcom Inc.

San Jose, CA · $121,900 – $195,000

Broadcom seeks a physical design engineer to lead chip floorplanning and top-level integration for AI and PCIe switch products, from RTL through tape-out. This role suits experienced engineers with deep expertise in hierarchical floorplanning, clock trees, and cross-functional coordination across design and package teams.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · New York, NY · $365,000 – $435,000

Anthropic seeks a seasoned technical program manager to oversee the end-to-end development of custom silicon chips for their Claude AI models, from architecture through production. This role suits someone with proven experience shipping chips, managing complex external partnerships, and building program execution frameworks in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

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NVIDIA

$272,000 – $431,250

This role focuses on bridging CPU architecture and physical design at NVIDIA, optimizing the interaction between microarchitectural decisions and chip-level constraints like power, timing, and thermal behavior. It suits someone with deep processor design experience who can navigate tradeoffs across RTL, circuit design, and advanced packaging techniques.

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Broadcom Inc.

San Jose, CA · $143,800 – $230,000

This is a senior engineering leadership role managing customer ASIC design programs across the full lifecycle, from initial requirements through production, with responsibility for guiding teams on advanced design practices and mitigating technical risks. It suits experienced chip design engineers comfortable with deep technical work, cross-functional collaboration, and advising both internal teams and external customers on complex semiconductor projects.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

San Francisco, CA · $320,000 – $485,000

Anthropic is building a custom silicon team to support their massive AI training and inference workloads, and seeks an experienced engineer to own end-to-end technical decisions across domains like design, verification, or physical implementation. This role suits someone who has shipped silicon before, can operate independently on a small founding team, and is comfortable making architecture calls and working with external partners.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $136,000 – $264,500

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior SOC Design Engineer to lead the integration of complex IP blocks and develop methodologies for building next-generation GPUs and system-on-chips. This role suits experienced chip designers who thrive on automation, cross-team collaboration, and solving large-scale integration challenges at the front-end of silicon design.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · New York, NY · $500,000 – $850,000

Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer to advance reinforcement learning for chip design, combining expertise in hardware design with AI training to help Claude models generate and optimize RTL and physical designs. The role suits experienced chip designers who want to bridge silicon expertise with cutting-edge AI research and can work across both research innovation and production deployment.

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