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Do you love building 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 designs, across the whole portfolio, from full custom analog to multi die 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. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices.

Apple is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities. Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants.

Description
As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design verification (PDV) flows. The role requires you to work on flow and run-set development for various technology nodes and tool sets. Working alongside the CAD team, you will be collaborating with the custom digital/analog/mixed-signal design, physical design (PD) and chip integration teams. You will need to have a deep understanding of design rule checks (DRC) and layout versus schematic (LVS) runsets, writing from scratch and/or modify existing ones. Also, you should have worked with Dummy Metal Fill generation and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) rules at different technologies.","responsibilities":"Develop, improve and maintain all aspects of physical verification flow and methodology
Coordinate the effort of validating flows, improving for custom checks and data generation
Work with the design and PD teams to facilitate the chip design process
Code custom PDV rule decks such as Electrical rule checks (ERC) and Programmable ERCs
Collaborate with tool vendors and foundries for PDK performance enhancements

Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of parasitic extraction and Virtuoso SKILL coding is a plus

Minimum Qualifications
Educatio: Minimum requirement of BS + 8 years of relevant industry experience

Key qualifications

Requires experience in Silicon chip design flows, including place-and-route (PnR) implementation flows
Expertise in Calibre/ICV runset coding for DRC/LVS/ERC/MFILL is required. Rule coding in PERC is a plus
Tapeout support and SoC chip-level PDV debug experience in various technology nodes is desirable
Hands-on experience with PnR tools and physical implementation flow is preferred
Knowledge/scripting in programming languages such as Perl, Python, Tcl, Shell, Makefile and/or C++
Deep understanding of Silicon technology and experience with flow development in advanced nodes

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Industry: Technology

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