PNR CAD Design Engineer Cambridge, East of England, England
Apple
Full Time
Cambridge, East of England, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Summary
Posted: Sep 23, 2022
Role Number:200391611
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, system-on-chip (SoC). You will ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you will 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. As a member of the CAD team, you will create and support innovative physical design methodology and CAD flow. You will collaborate with physical design teams, CAD teams, and EDA vendors.
Key Qualifications
- Experience in P&R and flow development
- Understand various aspects of partition level PNR including floorplanning, power planning, placement, timing/power optimization, CTS, routing, UPF
- Understanding and exposure to extraction and timing analysis flows
- Understand hierarchical P&R issues is a key (top-level floor planning, pin-assignment, clock-distribution, UPF, power-distribution, multi-voltage design, pad ring construction, placement, optimization, and routing)
- Strong scripting knowledge preferred
- Proven track record of managing, and regressing P&R flows
- You should be familiar with chip-finishing issues (metal-fill, spare-cells, DFM rules, boundary-cells, etc.) for the latest generations of process technologies
- We are looking for a self-motivated, dedicated problem solver. Strong interpersonal/communication skills are a requirement
- Innovus or ICC knowledge is a plus
- English fluency is required
Description
Provide innovative solutions to support and improve the quality of physical design. Work with chip design teams to implement and customize design flows that are optimal for a given chip. Provide documentation, training, and new-user-support. Responsible for diagnosis, resolution, and regression of reported problems.
Education & Experience
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
Additional Requirements
- 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.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Apple
www.apple.com
Cupertino, United States
Tim Cook
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Computer Hardware Development
1976
