Technology PPA Engineer
Apple
IT
Cupertino, CA, USA
Posted on Oct 29, 2024
Summary
Posted:
Role Number:200576008
As part of the Silicon Technology team, you’ll help design our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient SoCs. You will explore various technology what-if questions to find the overall optimal for Apple’s products. This will involve exploring various device knobs, stdcells, and wiring configurations to sweet spot the technology for Apple's needs. You will collaborate with design teams to define the best technology and flows to maximize the impact on our designs. You will work on world class CPU, GPU and SOC designs by help defining and exploring new std cell architectures and new flows that have a PPA (Power, Performance, Area) impact on Apple products! We are looking for passionate engineers to join our team. In this role, you will be impacting a wide range of chips used across Apple’s world-class products!
Description
- Participating and leading cross functional teams to solve key technology definition and design challenges. - Explore various technology questions and knobs to maximize PPA - Explore and help define std cell architectures and flows to maximize the PPA for CPUs, GPUs and SOC designs. - Collaborate with CAD teams to help create flows for the future technology - Collaborating with other disciplines such as physical design verification, RC extraction, IR and static timing analysis (STA).
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Electrical engineering fundamentals in digital circuits, timing/power concepts, and logic design
- Basic scripting skills to interface with tools and mining data
- Experience in using industry standard synthesis, PnR and STA tools
- Understanding of technology or experience in advanced technology would be a plus
- Expert in CAD flow or PD methodology development.
- Experience with advanced technology node and std cell architecture/definition
- Proficiency with Tcl, Python or Perl scripting languages.
- Hands on knowledge of industry standard PNR tools
- Expertise in analysis aspects of Physical Design - extraction, timing, noise, physical verification, EMIR.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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