Experienced GPU Top Level Physical Design Engineer

Do you love creating sophisticated solutions to highly complex challenges? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient GPUs! You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and expertly handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, we enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices! Join us!

This role requires a mix of strategic engineering along with hands-on, technical work, being responsible for implementing complete chip design from netlist to tapeout and having hands on experience in physical design and large chip integration.

Minimum Qualifications

• MSEE or equivalent is required.
• Deep experience with all aspects of ASIC integration including Floorplanning, Clock & Power distribution, global signal planning, I/O planning & hard IP integration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of issues such as multiple voltage and clock domains, ESD strategies, mixed signal block integration, and package interactions.
• Familiar with hierarchical design approach, top-down design, budgeting, timing and physical convergence.
• Depth of expertise on integrating IP from both internal and external vendors and be able to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain.
• 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.
• From a CAD tool perspective, experience with Floorplanning tools, P&R flows, global timing verification and Physical Design Verification Flows is required.