Apple

Physical Design Engineer

Apple$120K — $145K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or related field
  • 5 years of experience in semiconductor design or related occupation
  • Proficient in EDA tools like Innovus or IC Compiler, Primetime, and Calibre
  • Experience in synthesis, automated place and route, and verification flows
  • Skilled in low-power design techniques such as clock gating and power gating
  • Ability to automate processes using scripting languages such as Perl, Shell, and TCL
  • Experienced in block and IP level floorplanning, routing, and congestion analysis

Responsibilities

  • Perform physical design implementation of SOC blocks from netlist to tape-out
  • Collaborate across teams to ensure design integration and resolve issues
  • Drive methodologies to improve efficiency in physical design work
  • Analyze design database and write scripts for issue resolution
  • Conduct static timing analysis, DRC, and LVS, addressing violations
  • Optimize design for power, performance, and area through various techniques
  • Assist in methodology changes to enhance implementation quality

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment
  • Opportunity to work on advanced technology nodes
  • Access to state-of-the-art design tools
  • Contributions to design methodologies that influence best practices
  • Engagement in complex and innovative projects
Full Job Description
Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Perform physical design implementation of SOC (system-on-ship) blocks. Collaborate with other teams to ensure the block integrates without issues, into the next level of the design hierarchy. Collaborate with the FE team to understand chip architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle. Drive methodologies and best-known methods to streamline physical design work, come up with guidelines and checklists, and track progress. Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions and drive execution. Analyze reports, query the design database for proper structure, identify issues, and write scripts using the native tool commands to develop solutions. Carry out the physical implementation of one or more complex System-On-Chip (SOC) blocks from netlist to tape-out in advanced technology nodes. Improve the current implementation methodology, tuning flows, and construction recipes to improve the power, performance, and area of implemented blocks. Collaborate with the RTL design team to understand the logic and data flow of the block, perform placement of memories and other macros in the design, implement clock and power distribution, and placement and routing of the entire block. Optimize the design for reduced area and power and timing convergence, including understanding the clock architecture to optimize clock distribution, resolving congestion hotspots, adding placement and grouping constraints, implementing custom routing solutions and other techniques to optimize the design. Perform various analysis tasks on the block such as Static timing analysis (STA), Voltage drop analysis static (IR)/ dynamic internal voltage deviation (IVD), Design Rule Checking (DRC)/ Layout vs. Schematic (LVS), and clean up violations to provide a clean database. Interact with top-level integration, timing, and electrical analysis teams. Participate in improving block construction recipes for a certain technology and/or tool set. Create methodology changes to improve the quality or turn-around time of implementation. Analyze collected data and utilize scripting techniques to extract trends and meaningful conclusions. 40 hours/week.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Experience and/or education must include:

Utilizing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools such as Innovus or IC Compiler, Primetime or Calibre.

Experience in synthesis, automated place and route, or verification flows, including logic equivalency, low power verification, or physical design verification.

Understanding and interpreting design constraints for timing convergence and low power verification.

Utilizing circuit design techniques like clock gating, power gating, or multi-voltage designs to optimize power performance and minimize area tradeoffs.

Using hardware descriptive languages to accurately describe the behavior and structure of digital circuits.

Automating repetitive processes, data and text processing, and complex data analysis using scripting languages such as Perl, Shell scripting, Makefiles, and TCL.

Performing block and IP level floorplanning tasks such as pin assignment and Macro Placement

Performing routing and congestion analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

N/A

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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$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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