Apple

GPU Physical Design Engineer

Apple • $120K — $145K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering or related field.
  • 3 years of experience in physical design or related occupation.
  • Proficient with Cadence-Innovus for GPU partition place and route.
  • Experience collaborating with front-end teams for design feedback.
  • Knowledge of multi-voltage and power-gated designs for low power requirements.
  • Familiarity with hierarchical design approaches for budgeting and floor planning.
  • Skilled in scripting languages like TCL or Python for automation.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with front-end teams to understand chip architecture.
  • Develop and optimize physical design recipes for performance, power, and area.
  • Create methodologies and guidelines to streamline physical design work.
  • Supervise place and route engineers and set project goals.
  • Lead resolution of design and flow issues in physical design.
  • Identify solutions and drive execution for design challenges.
  • Plan and manage short and long-term project dependencies.

Benefits

  • Work in a cutting-edge technological environment.
  • Opportunity to influence design methodologies and best practices.
  • Engage in large-scale GPU design projects.
  • Collaborate with top industry professionals.
  • Access to advanced tools and resources for physical design.
Full Job Description
Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Work closely with the FE team to understand chip architecture and drive physical aspects early in design cycle. Drive best in class PD construction and optimization recipes for performance, power and Area (PPA). Work on cutting edge designs in the latest technological nodes. Drive methodologies and "best known methods" to streamline PD work, coming up with guidelines and checklists, driving execution, and supervising progress. Drive work among place and route engineers, set goals and breakthroughs, plan short and long-term work, understand dependencies between different domains like top, STA, block place and route. Lead and resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions and drive execution. 40 hours/week.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Electronics Engineering or Electrical Engineering or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Experience and/or education must include:

Utilizing industry standard automated place and route tools such as Cadence-Innovus to perform place and route of GPU partitions.

Working with FE teams to provide IP feedback to improve design for metrics such as timing and congestion.

Utilizing design knowledge and innovative physical construction methodologies to improve power performance and area of GPU designs.

Utilizing knowledge of multi voltage and power gated designs to handle low power design requirements.

Utilizing hierarchical design approach to handle multiple instantiated designs in PNR and understand their unique challenges related to budgeting and floor planning.

Integrating IP from both internal and external vendors and being able to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain.

Working on various process related design issues in lower tech nodes including Design for Yield and manufacturability.

Designing large GPU designs (>20M gates) with frequencies in excess of 1GHz.

Utilizing scripting languages such as TCL or Python to help automate physical design tasks and develop utilities to help with querying design for metrics.

Optimizing low power design techniques such as clock gating, custom clock construction, power gating, and multi-voltage technique threshold strategies.

Preferred Qualifications

N/A

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