# Senior ASIC Physical Design Engineer at Niobium Microsystems

- Company: Niobium Microsystems
- What the company does: Niobium offers the industry’s first purpose-built fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) hardware accelerator: a custom PCIe card that can accelerate the performance of FHE software by multiple orders of magnitude. Backed by Purple Arch Ventures.
- Company website: https://niobiummicrosystems.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Apply by: 2026-11-29
- Apply: https://niobium.bamboohr.com/careers/86?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/niobium-microsystems-senior-asic-physical-design-engineer/

## About the role

Founded as a 2021 spinout from Galois, Inc., a world-class security and computing systems research and development company, our team combines decades of experience in advanced semiconductor design with a record of delivering world class solutions. In this role, you will partner closely with Architecture, RTL Design, Verification, DFT, and Power teams to deliver high-performance, power-efficient silicon across cutting edge technology nodes. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Own and lead all physical design activities from RTL handoff, floorplanning, and PnR through final GDSII delivery
- Define execution strategy, schedules, design methodology, and quality checkpoints for the entire physical design flow
- Physical partitioning and hierarchy definition
- Power grid architecture and clock distribution topology
- DIE size, aspect ratio, and physical constraints


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