Apple

CPU Gate Level Synthesis Engineer

Apple$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field required
  • 10+ years of industry experience in CPU design
  • Strong background in digital logic design and RTL synthesis
  • Proficiency in scripting languages, including Tcl, Perl, and Python
  • Experience with physical design and DFT integration

Responsibilities

  • Conduct early RTL health assessments to identify timing and gate-depth issues
  • Estimate and validate power for new micro-architectural features
  • Enhance synthesis flows for better correlation to post-route analysis
  • Collaborate with DFT teams to integrate design-for-test methodologies
  • Generate timing constraints with timing teams at top design levels
  • Debug and resolve timing, power, and area problems
  • Analyze PPA trends throughout the project cycle

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge CPU design
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Access to advanced tools and methodologies
  • Engagement in innovative high-performance design processes
Full Job Description
Apple's Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) is looking for a hardworking engineer for our CPU Gate Level Synthesis role to assess and optimize design quality. In this role, the candidate would be a part of Apple's industry-leading CPU design team, working in a multi-functional role to ensure that our CPUs meet the highest standards for performance, power and area.

As a CPU Gate Level Synthesis Engineer, you will drive the early-stage development of high-performance, low-power digital designs for cutting-edge high-performance CPUs. This role involves running RTL to gate level synthesis and finding opportunities to optimize timing, power, and area for micro-architectural features. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement synthesis methodologies, constraint development, DFT integration, RTL optimization and power analysis. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Early RTL health assessment to detect potential timing/gate-depth issues and collaborating with the RTL & physical design teams in exploring solutions • Early stage power estimation and validation for new micro-architectural features • Enhancing synthesis flows for good correlation to post-route to ensure high fidelity of synthesis-based feedback • Work closely with DFT teams to ensure seamless integration of scan chain, ATPG, and MBIST into the synthesis flow • Partner with timing team to enable constraints generation at top levels • Debug and resolve timing, power, and area issues, ensuring efficient and scalable designs • Track and analyze PPA trends through project cycle

Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience Experience in digital logic design, RTL synthesis, and physical design

The ideal candidate should possess CPU implementation experience Proficiency in scripting languages (Tcl, Perl, Python) for automation and flow optimization Strong problem-solving, debugging, and collaboration skills in a fast-paced environment

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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