Physical Design Methodology CAD Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Physical Design Methodology CAD Engineer in Apple's Silicon Technologies group, you will contribute to the design and manufacturing of next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processors and System-on-Chips (SoCs). You will be responsible for crafting and building the technology that powers Apple's devices, enabling seamless and efficient task handling for millions of users. Your role involves developing flows, tools, and methodologies for world-class CPU, GPU, Analog/Mixed Signal, and SoC designs, exploring new technology nodes, standard cells, and tools. You will collaborate with design teams and tool vendors to enhance Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) and improve design productivity, potentially utilizing machine learning for CAD algorithms. This position offers the opportunity to impact a wide range of chips used across Apple's products.
Must have:
- Lead cross-functional teams to solve physical design challenges.
- Develop innovative solutions in physical design and optimization.
- Develop and support implementation flows for multiple projects.
- Develop and maintain custom CAD tools for implementation and signoff.
- Create flows for new technology node deployment.
- Develop tools and methodologies for PPA and productivity.
- Collaborate with physical design verification, RC extraction, IR, and STA.
- Drive EDA tool vendor interactions for issue resolution and improvement identification.
2 skills required
Job Details
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. As part of the Hardware Technology CAD team, you’ll help design our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient SoCs. You will work on world class CPU, GPU, Analog/Mixed Signal and SOC designs by developing flows, tools and methodologies for future Apple products! You will explore and enable new technology nodes, stdcells and tools for design teams. You will collaborate with design teams and tool vendors to improve PPA (Power, Performance, Area) and design productivity. You will actively work on developing internal methodologies using your understanding of CAD algorithms and ML. We are looking for passionate engineers to join our team. In this role, you will be impacting a wide range of chips used across Apple’s world-class products!
- Participating and leading cross functional teams to solve key physical design challenges. - Developing innovative solutions in physical design and optimization space. - Developing and supporting implementation flows for multiple projects and design teams. - Developing and maintaining custom CAD tools for implementation and signoff. - Creating flows to enable successful deployment of new technology nodes. - Developing tools and methodologies for best-in-class PPA and productivity including ML based solutions. - Collaborating with other disciplines such as physical design verification, RC extraction, IR and static timing analysis (STA). - Driving EDA tool vendor interactions, to resolve tool issues and identify areas for tool improvements.
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