NVIDIASenior AI Chip Design Engineer
NVIDIA is hiring a Senior AI Chip Design Engineer in Tel Aviv, Israel. Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting mentions Git, GitLab and AI Coding Assistants among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- NVIDIA has 2,600+ other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Develop AI-powered methodologies, tools, and automation workflows to improve productivity and quality across chip design stages.
The Chip Design Methodologies team is responsible for establishing ASIC design methodologies, developing shared code, providing design guidance, and driving the adoption of new technologies. The team plays a key role in ensuring chip design teams operate efficiently and adhere to best practices. We are now expanding our focus to AI-powered applications for chip design — leveraging modern AI tools and methods to improve productivity, quality, and turnaround across the design flow. This role offers an exciting opportunity to think innovatively and make a significant impact within a dynamic, technology-focused organization.
What You'll Be Doing:
Develop innovative AI-powered methodologies and applications for chip design — spanning specification, RTL, verification, and physical design
Collaborate with chip design stakeholders across architecture, RTL, DV, FV, and physical design teams to understand existing challenges and form the best solutions
Utilize, develop, and assimilate AI-based tools and flows into the chip design process
Evaluate cutting-edge AI tools and EDA vendor technologies, and apply them to improve the development process
Define and enforce design quality standards — lint rules, synthesis guidelines, and coding best practices
Develop training sessions and guide designers with best design practices, including AI-assisted workflows
Build automation infrastructure and scripted flows to streamline chip design development
What We Need To See:
BSc degree in Electrical Engineering
10+ years hands-on pre silicon design experience
Strong interpersonal skills, a passion for innovation, and the ability to mentor
A natural drive to systematize, automate, and improve how things are done
Strong AI orientation — genuine curiosity about AI-driven development, with a working understanding of the modern AI ecosystem: AI coding assistants, agentic workflows, and prompt-driven engineering practices
Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:
Wide system level understanding of the chip design development and flows
Strong interpersonal skills
Passion for innovation, quality, efficiency and flows automation
Chip design experience combined with hands-on AI tool usage - you've used AI to solve real engineering problems
Experience with CI/CD for hardware development (Git, GitLab, or equivalent)
NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers and has been ranked Israel’s most desirable employer for two consecutive years (2024-2025), reflecting our culture of innovation and excellence, and people-first values. Are you a creative and autonomous engineer who loves a challenge? Come join our networking chip design team and help us developing great products by bringing innovation and raising the efficiency and the quality standard in the team.
How we rate this
Senior AI Chip Design Engineer at NVIDIA rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a project where asic design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ai driven development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where chip design was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, Asic Design, AI Driven Development, Automation, and Chip Design. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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