SoC Physical Design Engineer, STA/Timing
๐California, United States ๐บ๐ธ
โฑ๏ธ full-time
๐งโโ๏ธ mid-level
SoC Physical Design Engineer, STA/Timing
Join Apple as a SoC Physical Design Engineer specializing in STA/Timing. In this role, you will be responsible for the physical implementation of design partitions for complex SOCs using advanced process technology. Responsibilities
Collaborate with design teams to understand constraints and improve timing through logic modifications. Work with the Physical Design team to identify issues and share best practices. Create timing ECOs for project tapeouts. Develop and maintain scripts and methodologies for analysis and runs. Document processes and contribute to guidelines and specifications. Perform deep timing path analysis to identify key issues. Implement timing infrastructure. Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of relevant industry experience. Experience with large design STA and timing closure. Proficiency in Perl and TCL programming. Preferred Qualifications
Hands-on experience in STA. Knowledge of timing in high-performance SoC designs in sub-micron technologies. Understanding of noise, crosstalk, and OCV effects. Experience with circuit modeling, including SPICE. Familiarity with ECO techniques. Strong communication skills to describe issues clearly and follow through to completion.
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Nice-to-have skills
- Perl
- TCL
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California, United States
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- English
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation โ making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
Weโre looking for a true legend โ someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. Youโll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. Itโs your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo ๐
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML ๐ค
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking ๐ง
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity ๐ฐ
- Remote work possible ๐
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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