SoC Physical Design Engineer
Apple
SoC Physical Design Engineer
Apple
Designs phones, computers and their operating systems
Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, hardworking people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product! In this highly visible role, you will work with a team environment responsible completing partition place and route from netlist to tapeout including automation tasks for Apple SOC!
Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience Familiar with aspects of ASIC integration, including floorplanning, clock and power distribution, global signal planning, I/O planning, and hard IP integration Experience with scripting and programming skills, including the ability to write maintainable and reusable scripts/programs of medium complexity in suitable languages (TCL/Python) Understanding of industry standard tools for PNR, Voltage Drop Analysis, STA & Layout Verification
Experience with automation for Physical Design, block level execution and experience Experience of cross-functional collaboration with CAD/Physical Verification/Electrical analysis and PNR teams to ensure electrically robust power grid Experience with latest technology nodes tapeout is a plus
• Technical Expertise: Experience with automation for Physical Design, including block execution and using TCL and/or Python • Collaboration and Communication: Ability to work multi-functionally with CAD/Physical Verification/Electrical analysis and PnR teams to ensure a strong and DRC-clean power grid • Problem-Solving and Methodology: Development of features and methodology solutions to be used by a wide range of SOC partitions
Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, from iPhone smartphones and Mac computers to tablets and wearable devices. Its operating systems manage apps and built-in functions for communication and work, while iCloud stores files and synchronizes data across devices. Customers buy additional digital services through subscriptions such as Apple Music and Apple TV, and developers distribute software through the App Store. Apple earns money from hardware sales, subscriptions and digital transactions, selling directly to customers and through retailers and mobile carriers around the world. It was founded in 1976 and has its headquarters in Cupertino, California.
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