Physical Design Engineer

5 days ago


Cupertino, California, 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 Physical Design Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing high-performance PHY designs from RTL to delivery of our final GDSII.

Your Responsibilities

  • Generate block/chip level static timing constraints.
  • Build full chip floor-plan 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 to other designers.
  • Participate in establishing CAD and physical design methodologies for correct-by-construction designs.
  • Assist in flow development for chip integration.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering and 3 years of experience preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Deep design experience in high PHY and/or SOC designs.
  • Deep knowledge about 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 to be able with logic design team for timing fixes 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.

What We Offer

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
  • Retirement benefits.
  • A range of discounted products and free services.
  • Reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition.
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments.

Apple is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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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