Apple · 16 hours ago
SoC Physical Design Engineer, STA/Timing
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $302K/yr
10+ years expApple is a company known for its extraordinary products and innovative technologies. In this role, you will be responsible for the physical implementation of design partitions for a complex SoC, working closely with design teams to improve timing and facilitate logic changes.
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Responsibilities
Work with design teams to understand and debug constraints and facilitate logic changes to improve timing
Work with the Physical Design team, highlighting issues and best practices
Help create timing ECO’s for project tapeout
Create and maintain scripts and methodologies for analysis and runs
Create documentation and help with guidelines/specs
Deep analysis of timing paths to identify key issues
Implement timing infrastructure
Qualification
Required
Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience with large design STA and Timing Closure
Programming skills with Perl and TCL
Preferred
Hands-on experience in STA
Familiar with important aspects of timing of large high-performance SoC designs in sub-micron technologies
Proficient in STA and methodologies for timing closure and have a fundamental understanding of noise, crosstalk, and OCV effects, among others
Familiar with circuit modeling, including SPICE models, and worst-case corner selection
Familiar with ECO techniques and implementation
Good communicator who can accurately describe issues and follow them through to completion
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
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