SoC Physical Design Engineer

3 weeks ago


Beaverton, Oregon, United States Apple Full time
Role Summary

At Apple, we're passionate about innovation and delivering groundbreaking products. As a SoC Physical Design Engineer, you'll play a critical role in the physical implementation of design partitions for complex SoCs using state-of-the-art process technology.

Key Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with design teams to understand and debug constraints, facilitating logic changes to improve timing.
  • Work with the Physical Design team to highlight issues and best practices.
  • Develop timing ECOs for project tapeout.
  • Create and maintain scripts and methodologies for analysis and runs.
  • Develop documentation and guidelines/specs.
  • Analyze timing paths to identify key issues.
  • Implement timing infrastructure.
Requirements
  • Minimum BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Hands-on experience in STA.
  • Familiarity with timing aspects of large high-performance SoC designs in sub-micron technologies.
  • Proficient in STA and methodologies for timing closure, with a fundamental understanding of noise, crosstalk, and OCV effects.
  • Familiarity with circuit modeling, including SPICE models and worst-case corner selection.
  • Good programming skills with Perl and TCL.
  • Experience with large design STA and Timing Closure.
  • Familiarity with ECO techniques and implementation.
  • Good communication skills to accurately describe issues and follow them through to completion.
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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