SoC Physical Design Engineer - Power Delivery

**Role Number:** 200671437-0157

**Summary**

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas 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. Dynamic, hardworking 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 passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product!

In this highly visible role, you will work with a team environment responsible completing partition place and route from netlist to tapeout including automation tasks for Apple SOC!

**Description**

• Technical Expertise: Experience with automation for Physical Design, including block execution and using TCL and/or Python
• Collaboration and Communication: Ability to work multi-functionally with CAD/Physical Verification/Electrical analysis and PnR teams to ensure a strong and DRC-clean power grid
• Problem-Solving and Methodology: Development of features and methodology solutions to be used by a wide range of SOC partitions

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

+ Familiar with aspects of ASIC integration, including floorplanning, clock and power distribution, global signal planning, I/O planning, and hard IP integration

+ Experience with scripting and programming skills, including the ability to write maintainable and reusable scripts/programs of medium complexity in suitable languages (TCL/Python)

+ Understanding of industry standard tools for PNR, Voltage Drop Analysis, STA & Layout Verification

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Experience with automation for Physical Design, block level execution and experience

+ Experience of cross-functional collaboration with CAD/Physical Verification/Electrical analysis and PNR teams to ensure electrically robust power grid

+ Experience with latest technology nodes tapeout is a plus

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