GPU Top Level Physical Design Engineer

Summary

Do you love creating sophisticated solutions to highly complex challenges? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient GPU! You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and expertly handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, we enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices!

Description

This role requires a mix of strategic engineering along with hands-on, technical work, being responsible for implementing complete chip design from netlist to tapeout, and having hands on experience in physical design and large chip integration.

Minimum Qualifications

MSEE or equivalent is required.nDeep experience with all aspects of ASIC integration including Floorplanning, Clock u0026 Power distribution, global signal planning, I/O planning u0026 hard IP integration.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of issues such as multiple voltage and clock domains, ESD strategies, mixed signal block integration, and package interactions. nFamiliar with hierarchical design approach, top-down design, budgeting, timing and physical convergence.nDepth of expertise on integrating IP from both internal and external vendors and be able to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain.nExperience with large subsystem designs (u003e20M gates) with frequencies in excess of 1GHz applying brand-new technologies.nFamiliar with various process related design issues including Design for Yield and Manufacturability, multi Vt strategies and thermal Mgt.nFrom a CAD tool perspective, experience with Floorplanning tools, Pu0026R flows, global timing verification and Physical Design Verification Flows is required.