Apple · 21 hours ago
Physical Design Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
3+ years expApple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. They are seeking a Physical Design Engineer to collaborate with design teams on physical aspects of design, ensuring reliable power distribution, optimizing design for timing requirements, and performing physical verification checks.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with design team to understand design specification and area requirement before starting the physical aspects including PnR
Understand the design data flow and pin placement and develop the feasible macro or hard Ip placement as needed
Conduct power grid planning to ensure a reliable and efficient power distribution at initial stage of design and understand the EM/IR violations and limits to avoid future challenges
Meet timing requirements by optimizing the design for critical paths and addressing setup and hold time violation
Understand the criticality and impact of timing constraints on design through discussions with the Static Timing Analysis (STA) team
Perform physical verification checks to ensure design adheres to design rules and guidelines
Address issues related to Design Rule checks (DRCs), layout vs schematic (LVS) and electrical rule checks (ERC) and bring up to PDV team if there are flow related issues
Understand the impact of the changing technology node on the design constraints and conducting multiple experiments to achieve PPA
Work closely with various teams to provide continuous feedback so that the design is easily able to close within the given timeframe and achieve the project milestone
Qualification
Required
Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation
Using VLSI System Design, MOS VLSI Circuit Design, or Computer System with transistor level fundamentals and design architecture for all physical design work and troubleshooting
Using Innovus or IC Compiler for block level floor planning, place and route
Using Primetime for hierarchical design approach, top-down design, budgeting, timing closure
Using Caliber for physical verification for design rule closure
Using Voltus for electrical analysis
Using Genus or DC Compiler and Innovus or IC Compiler to work with RTL teams to drive optimal floor planning and physical implementation through early RTL feedback
Using Innovus or IC Compiler for innovative physical construction and optimization flows to push performance, power, and Area (PPA)
Using scripting languages including Perl/Tcl/Python for parsing physical design reports, logs and creating design metrics that capture the state of the design and to configure tool capabilities
Utilizing existing signoff process and flow to tapeout high quality product with no escape
Company
Apple
Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
10001+ employees
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CEO
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