Physical Design Engineer

3 days ago


Austin, Texas, United States Apple Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Physical Design Engineer to join our team at Apple. As a member of our design team, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects and contribute to the development of innovative products that delight our customers.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and develop high-performance PHY designs from RTL to GDSII
  • Generate block/chip level static timing constraints
  • Build full chip floor-plans, including pin placement, partitions, and power grid
  • Develop and validate high-performance low-power clock network guidelines
  • Perform block-level place and route, and close the design to meet timing, area, and power constraints
  • Generate and implement ECOs to fix timing, noise, and EM IR violations
  • Run physical design verification flow at chip/block level and provide guidelines to fix LVS/DRC violations
Requirements
  • Deep design experience in high PHY and/or SOC designs
  • Deep knowledge of industry standards and practices in physical design, including physically aware synthesis, floor-planning, and place & route
  • Experience in developing and implementing power-grid and clock specifications
  • Strong understanding of all aspects of physical construction, integration, and physical verification
  • Shown knowledge of basic SoC architecture and HDL languages like Verilog
  • Power user of industry-standard physical design & synthesis tools
  • Deep understanding of scripting languages such as Perl/Tcl, solid understanding of extraction and STA methodology and tools
  • Deep understanding of physical design verification methodology to debug LVS/DRC issues at chip/block level
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering and 10+ years of experience
About Apple

Apple is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.



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