Apple · 15 hours ago
GPU Physical Design Clocking Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expApple is seeking a GPU Physical Design Clocking Engineer to join their Silicon Technologies group, where the focus is on designing and manufacturing high-performance, power-efficient processors. The role involves collaborating with various teams to drive clocking methodologies and ensure seamless chip design from netlist to tapeout.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with FE teams to understand chip architecture and drive clocking aspects early in design cycle
Drive best in class clocking construction and solutions for performance, power and Area (PPA)
Collaborate to drive clocking methodologies and 'best known methods' to streamline PD work, come up with guidelines and checklists, drive execution, and supervise progress
Communicate and drive the needs of PD and Clocking with multi-functional teams that will enable achieving the goals of the back-end design for the project
Qualification
Required
BS + 10 years of relevant experience
Experience with ASIC integration including one or more of the following: Floorplanning, Clock and Power distribution, global signal planning, and I/O planning
Experience with Floorplanning tools, Pu0026R flows, and global timing verification Flows is required
Preferred
Experience with hierarchical design approach, top-down design, budgeting, timing and physical convergence
Experience planning, implementing, and analyzing high-speed clock distribution networks from the root to leaf
Exposure to different strategies for clock distribution including balanced trees, mesh, and forwarded clocks
Ability to use critical clock metrics revolving around latency, skew, and variation to prevent and solve sophisticated cross-hierarchy clocking issues
Experience planning and crafting test structures to evaluate clocking functionality and performance post Silicon
Background in engaging with Test teams pre/post Silicon to debug and analyze problems from a clocking perspective
Experience integrating IP from both internal and external vendors and be able to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain
Experience with Physical Design topics: multiple voltage and clock domains, ESD solutions, and mixed signal block integration
Experience with large subsystem designs (>20M gates) with frequencies in excess of 1GHz applying brand new technologies
Familiar with various process related design issues including Design for Yield and Manufacturability, multi Vt strategies and thermal Mgt
Proven track record in solving complex PD and cross functional problems, driving results directly and or directing a team of engineers to innovate and execute on world class designs
Understanding of GPU architecture and design units
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