Apple

Physical Design Engineer

Apple • $110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 3 years of experience in physical design or related occupation
  • Proficient in Tcl, Perl, or Python for scripting
  • Experience with Synopsys ICC or Cadence Innovus for physical design
  • Skilled in optimizing power, timing, and area for design quality
  • Knowledge of clock tree changes for timing closure
  • Experience with static timing and noise analysis tools

Responsibilities

  • Close physical design, EMIR, and timing closure
  • Collaborate with SOC level contacts to ensure design progression
  • Utilize Innovus, Voltus, and Primetime for design tasks
  • Analyze design metrics like power, area, and timing
  • Develop methodologies for improved performance and faster closure
  • Diagnose timing constraint issues and provide feedback
  • Resolve DCD and MPW violations for quality clock signals

Benefits

  • 40 hours/week work schedule
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge design tools
  • Collaborative environment with SOC level integration
  • Focus on performance improvement methodologies
  • Engagement with tool developers for enhancements
Full Job Description
Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Work on closing the physical design, EMIR, Physical verification, and timing closure. Collaborate with the partition level or SOC level point of contact to make sure the design progresses to closure and if there are any issues while integrating design to SOC level. Use tools like Innovus, voltus and Primetime to design the partition level and interact with the edi company which develops these tools for any enhancements and bugs. Analyze the different matrices of the design like power, area, timing, and DRC to make a decision and evaluate the design for better performance. Work on developing different methodologies for better performance and faster design closure. 40 hours/week.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Experience and/or education must include:

Using customized scripting in Tcl, Perl, or Python to accelerate physical design closure

Optimizing leakage power in post route timing tool such as Primetime

Utilizing a place and route tool including Synopsys ICC or Cadence Innovus for physical design work including floorplanning and place and route implementation work.

Optimizing power, timing, and area with flow adjustments to improve QoR

Diagnosing timing constraint issues and provide feedback for needed exceptions

Understanding localized changes to the clock tree to help close timing

Diagnosing and resolving DCD (duty-cycle distortion) and MPW (min pulse-width) violations to ensure we have quality clock signals arriving to our flops and macros

Utilizing static timing and noise analysis allowing resolution of violations that are not fixed by our automated tools.

Utilizing a PTSI or a similar timing engine to generate ECOs to close timing

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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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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