Physical Design Methodology CAD Engineer

Job Description

Join the Hardware Technology CAD team at Apple to help design and optimize next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient SoCs for Apple products.

Requirements

• Experience in CAD Tool, CAD flow or PD methodology
• Proficiency in Tcl, Python or Perl scripting languages
• Expertise in physical design analysis - extraction, timing, noise, physical verification, EMIR
• Minimum requirement of BS+10 years of relevant industry experience

Responsibilities

• Participating and driving cross functional teams to solve key physical design challenges
• Developing innovative solutions in physical design and optimization space
• Developing and supporting implementation flows for multiple projects and design teams
• Developing and maintaining custom CAD tools for implementation and signoff
• Creating flows to enable successful deployment of new technology nodes
• Developing tools and methodologies for best-in-class PPA and productivity including ML based solutions
• Collaborating with other disciplines such as physical design verification, RC extraction, IR and static timing analysis (STA)
• Driving EDA tool vendor interactions, to resolve tool issues and identify areas for tool improvements