Physical Design Engineer, New Grad

Nova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of Samba

Nova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into Samba

Rack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value. About the Team The Physical Design team takes RDU designs through synthesis, place and route, and sign-off on TSMC advanced nodes. We develop and maintain the Cadence based flow, including Genus, Innovus, and Cerebrus, and work with designers and tool vendors to fix flow and design issues.

About the Role As a new grad Physical Design Engineer, you'll run and improve our RTL to GDS flow on advanced process nodes. You'll write TCL and Python scripts to automate flow steps, help physical designers debug timing and congestion issues, and work with tool vendors on bugs.

Run synthesis and place and route using Cadence Genus, Innovus, and Cerebrus Write scripts in TCL and Python to automate and improve the physical design flow Help physical designers debug timing, congestion, and design rule issues Work with tool vendors to report bugs and test flow improvements Maint