Search jobs > Beaverton, OR > Physical design engineer

Physical Design PPA Engineer

Apple
Beaverton, OR, United States
Full-time

Summary

Posted : Aug 23, 2024

Role Number : 200563736

Do you have a passion for crafting entirely new solutions? As part of our Digital Design Engineering group, you'll take imaginative and revolutionary ideas and determine how to turn them into reality! You and your team will apply engineering fundamentals and start from scratch if needed, bringing forward-thinking ideas to the real world.

Your efforts will be groundbreaking. We are looking for a motivated Senior ASIC Physical Design PPA (Performance, Power, Area) Engineer to join our dynamic and growing team.

If you are looking for a challenging and exciting role, and if you are a self-starter and highly motivated individual who loves to collaborate and find solutions to hard technical problems, join us today! Your efforts will be groundbreaking, often literally.

Join us, and you'll help design the tools that allow us to bring customers experiences they've never before envisioned. You will be part of an exciting silicon design group that is responsible for designing state-of-the-art ASICs.

Description

Imagine yourself at the center of our SOC design effort, collaborating with all fields, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.

You will have the opportunity to integrate and come-up with new insights, as well as work with a team of hardworking engineers.

As Physical Design PPA Enginner, you will be responsible for generating automation and infrastructure to scale and improve the efficiency and reliability of the PPA regression and problems.

You will do a deep dive to root cause and address any unexpected result. You will be working with CAD and design teams to drive these improvements and updates in our production design flows in an effective and timely manner.

You will collaborate cross functionally with design, power, post silicon, and CAD to deliver on PPA goals.

BS and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • We are looking for applicants with experience and strong understanding of the RTL2GDSII flow and concepts related to synthesis, place & route, CTS, timing convergence, layout closure.
  • Ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in PPA ( Performance, Power, Area) analysis for different Physical designs and evaluate new Stdcell libraries in leading tech nodes.
  • Familiar with development of block / partitions for silicon validation of foundation IPs.
  • Good understanding of Place-and-Route design as well as associated tools / flow, ability to analyze physical databases and drive new ideas.
  • Experience with industry standard synthesis, physical design and STA tools.
  • Familiar with ASIC integration flows, including power distribution, global signal planning, I / O planning and hard IP integration is highly desired.
  • Familiar with tapeout of partitions and Verification Flows like LEQ, IR / EM, Timing and DFM closure is preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with ECO implementation, both functional and timing closure is helpful.
  • Familiar with DFT insertion, and multi-mode timing constraints is a strong plus.
  • Strong scripting skills using Perl / Tcl.
  • Strong written / verbal communication skills.

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

More

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

10 days ago
Related jobs
Promoted
Apple
Beaverton, Oregon

You will collaborate with design teams and tool vendors to improve PPA (Power, Performance, Area) and design productivity. Understanding of some of the analysis involved in Physical Design - extraction, timing, noise, physical verification, EMIR. You will work on world class CPU, GPU, Analog/Mixed S...

NVIDIA
Hillsboro, Oregon

We are now looking for a Logic Design Engineer with Physical Design background!. Physical design expertise including hands-on synthesis experience and in-depth knowledge of industry standard physical design tools is required. As a member of our core CPU team, you'll be a liaison between Lo...

Promoted
Apple
Beaverton, Oregon

Work with the physical design team to drive methodologies and "best known methods" to streamline physical design work, come up with guidelines and checklists, drive execution, and track progress. Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execu...

NVIDIA
Hillsboro, Oregon

We are now looking for a motivated ASIC Physical Design and Timing Engineer to join our dynamic and growing team. Drive physical design and timing of high-frequency and low-power CPU, GPU, DPU and SoCs at block level, cluster level, and/or full chip level. Expertise in physical design and optimizati...

Promoted
Apple
Beaverton, Oregon

Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product! In Physical Design, you will be at the center of design effort collaborating with architecture, CAD, timing, and logic design teams with a critical impact on delivering best in class designs. Working with the logic design team to underst...

Apple
Beaverton, Oregon

Work with the logic design team to understand partition architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle. Resolve and improve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple p...

Apple
Beaverton, Oregon

In this visible role, you will be directly responsible for the physical implementation of design partition(s) (from netlist to tapeout) for a highly complex SoC using state of the art process technology. Work with Physical Design team, highlighting issues and best practices. Familiar with all aspect...

Apple
Beaverton, Oregon

Work with the physical design team to drive methodologies and “best known methods” to streamline physical design work, come up with guidelines and checklists, drive execution, and track progress. Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execu...

Promoted
Apple
Beaverton, Oregon

Do you have a passion for crafting entirely new solutions? As part of our Digital Design Engineering group, you'll take imaginative and revolutionary ideas and determine how to turn them into reality! You and your team will apply engineering fundamentals and start from scratch if needed, bringing fo...

Promoted
HealthEcareers - Client
Clackamas, Oregon

Supervises nursing and hospital operations on assigned shift.Coordinates patient bed placement activities for admissions and internal and external transfers to match patient care need with appropriate nursing unit.Supervises staff placement to meet short term clinical staffing needs.Responsible for ...