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Apple

CAD Timing Engineer

Austin, TX

Summary

Posted: Oct 10, 2023

Role Number:200510252

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you'll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor and system-on-chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you'll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple's devices. We invite you to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple products. In this highly visible role as a key technical member of the Design Methodology and Tools team, you are an integral part of the effort to improve the performance of Apple silicon. You will be responsible for delivering industry-leading solutions for design optimization, design closure, and visualization. Combining algorithm application with practical design know-how and software engineering best practices, you will help to differentiate and streamline Apple's silicon engineering methods.

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Key Qualifications

  • Hands on experience in static timing analysis and/or design optimization flows
  • Familiar with STA of large high-performance SoC or Processor designs in deep sub-micron technologies
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to identify high ROI opportunities
  • Proven software engineering background and experience with C++, Python, Tcl programming languages
  • Proficiency with optimization algorithms, data modeling, and mathematical representations
  • Solid understanding of cross-talk, variation, and margining
  • Good communicator who can accurately assess, describe issues to management and follow solutions through to completion
  • Familiarity with timing and power ECO techniques and implementation is a plus

Description

As a CAD Timing Engineer, you will: - Deliver methodology and tool solutions for static timing closure and power optimization - Apply data science and ML analytics to quantify, mine, and predict intriguing patterns - Deploy innovative modeling and optimization approaches to achieve globally optimal targets - Prudently apply best-in-class algorithms and ECO techniques for value-adding design solutions - Pursue deep analysis of timing paths and power inefficiencies to isolate key issues - Implement code infrastructure to facilitate analytics and visualization - Collaborate with silicon design, CAD, and EDA partners to identify flow deficiencies and enact creative remedies.

Education & Experience

Minimum requirement of BS + 3 years of relevant industry experience.

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements

Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX, USA
Job ID: apple-200510252-6
Employment Type: Other

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