Apple · 2 days ago
SoC Physical Design Engineer, STA/Timing
Beaverton, OR
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expApple is a leader in innovation, dedicated to creating extraordinary products and services. The role involves the physical implementation of design partitions for complex SoCs, requiring collaboration with design teams and the Physical Design team to enhance timing and manage project tapeout.
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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
Strong programming skills with TCL
Preferred
Experience with large design STA and/or Timing Closure
Experience with timing of large high-performance SoC designs in sub-micron technologies
Deep understanding of noise, crosstalk, OCV and other timing modeling effects
Knowledge of circuit modeling including timing models, worst-case timing corner selection, and SPICE simulation
Experience in ECO techniques and implementation
Experience with other scripting languages such as Perl or python
Good communicator who can accurately describe issues, propose solutions, and drive them through completion
Company
Apple
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