Physical Design Methodology CAD Engineer

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!

Description

• Participating and engaging with cross functional teams to tackle 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 teams such as physical design verification, RC extraction, IR and static timing analysis (STA). - Working directly with EDA tool vendors to resolve tool issues and identify areas for tool improvements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge of Tcl, Python or Perl scripting languages

• Minimum requirement of BS

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of VLSI / Physical Design basics through previous coursework or internships

• Exposure to CAD Tool, CAD flow or PD methodology.

• Understanding of some of the analysis involved in Physical Design - extraction, timing, noise, physical verification, EMIR.

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