Apple

Physical Design Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field.
  • Experience with industry-standard tools for Place and Route (PnR) in SOC design.
  • Proficient in timing analysis tools for setup and hold violations across multiple corners.
  • Skilled in creating block-level floorplans, including macro placement and power grid design.
  • Experience in running DRC and LVS checks for design rule compliance.
  • Ability to generate and analyze clock trees to optimize performance specifications.
  • Proficient in TCL and Shell Scripting for automating design flows.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with architecture and design teams to enhance design quality.
  • Drive physical aspects of design early in the cycle with logic design team.
  • Implement netlist to GDS2 for design partitions on schedule.
  • Conduct time, physical, and electrical verification for design signoff.
  • Resolve design and flow issues, proposing and executing solutions.
  • Architect macro placement to optimize performance, power, and area (PPA).
  • Verify design performance and fix violations using static analysis.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with leading design teams.
  • Opportunity to impact high-performance design projects.
  • Access to advanced EDA tools and technologies.
  • Engagement in innovative design processes and methodologies.
Full Job Description
Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Collaborate with architecture, CAD, timing and logic design teams, with a critical impact on delivering best in class designs; Work with the logic design team to understand partition architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle; Complete netlist to GDS2 implementation for partition(s) meeting schedule and design goals; Time, physical and electrical verification, and driving the signoff closure for the partitions; Resolve and improving design and flow issues related to physical design, identifying potential solutions, and driving execution; Work with logic designer to decide on design hierarchy and to architect macro/design module placement to extract best PPA at floorplan stage; Work with EDA tools to optimize the design to get best placement location for millions of cells in the design; Construct clock tree to support high performance and low power designs; Route the design to meet all latest technology foundry guidelines and rules; Verify design performance using Static analysis, generating ECOs to fix failing paths; Verify design for electrical rules checks, designing rule checks, electromigration and IR drop. Fix any of the violations on physical database; Review and signoff the design to make sure quality and PPA is not compromised; Identifying issue, debugging, resolving flow issues during place and route implementation; Develop scripts/programs as needed to implement and signoff designs; Understand weekly handoff requirements and run flows to delivered required data; and Work with IP leads to understand design violations and deliver fixes. 40 hours/week.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.

Experience and/or education must include:

Utilizing experience using industry standard tools for PnR to implement and signoff off SOC design partitions.

Utilizing industry stand timing tools to perform STA across multiple corners and modes, fixing setup and hold violations and debugging timing paths to ensure design meets timing and frequency specifications.

Creating a block-level floorplan including macro placement, pin assignment, power grid design, tap cell insertion, and congestion reduction.

Utilizing skills to run and debug DRC and LVS using tools to complete PV signoff and ensure design meets foundry DRM specs.

Generating and analyzing clock trees, reducing skew and jitter, and optimizing buffer insertion to ensure CTS and performance specs are met.

Performing manual and tool-driven ECOs for timing (buffer insertion, cell sizing) for final STA signoff and closure of design.

Utilizing skills in power (leakage recovery, Vt swaps) and functional changes (gate-level patching) to ensure design is meeting power specifications

Utilizing skills in TCL and Shell Scripting to automate PnR flows, parse reports, or create CAD utilities.

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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