Summary Posted: Feb 29, 2024
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200540577 Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Multifaceted, people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same real passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to deliver the next phenomenal Apple product. Do you enjoy working on challenges that no one has solved yet? As a member of our dynamic group, you will get the outstanding and exciting opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and encourage millions of Apple’s customers every single day. Are you ready to join a team transforming hardware technology? We are searching for a hardworking engineer to join our exciting team of problem solvers. Join us! You will be taking part in the Physical Design team as a backend focal point for timing analysis and convergence, working in sophisticated technologies and interacting closely both with RTL designers, Physical Designers and other top level integration teams.
Description Responsibilities include especially, but are not limited to: - Work with Physical Design team, highlighting issues and best practices. - Help build timing ECO’s for project tapeout. - Build/maintain scripts and methodologies for analysis and runs. You will be responsible for constraints and timing checkups development, including their delivery for synthesis, PnR and signoff STA. Working in parallel on blocks and chip level STA modes.
Key Qualifications - Basic knowledge of the VLSI design timing closure flow and methodology.
- Experience in STA methodologies for timing closure, and have a basic understanding of noise, cross-talk, and OCV effects, among others.
- Basic experience with scripting languages (TCL & Perl).
- - Familiarity with synthesis, logic equivalence, DFT and backend related methodology and tools - An advantage.
- - Background in Constraint analysis and debug, using industry standard tools as well as backend STA closure - An advantage.
- - Experience in timing closure of various test modes such as scan shift, scan capture, atspeed and Bist testing - An advantage.
- A team player that collaborate well with peers.
- Ability to fluently speak and write in English.
Education & Experience Bachelors's or Master's Degree in a technical field is required.
Additional Requirements - Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Apple is a drug-free workplace