Job Details

Physical Synthesis CAD Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Apr 28, 2025

Role Number: 200601732

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 processor, 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!

Description

You will apply your hand-on skills in developing, improving and supporting the implementation flow from RTL through GDS signoff. You will be directly responsible to improve physical synthesis techniques through innovative scripts, flows and automation.

Primary Responsibilities will include:
- Develop and improve existing flows for Physical Synthesis, LEC and DFT Implementation

• Support multiple design teams and work with cross functional teams to integrate solutions in different flows

• Work with cross-functional teams to solve key physical synthesis challenges.

• Developing innovative solutions in physical synthesis space

• Developing and maintaining custom CAD tools for synthesis and DFT implementation

• Working with tool vendors to resolve tool/flow issues

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with TCL, Python or Perl scripting languages

• Experience with industry standard Synthesis tools such as Fusion Compiler or Genus

• Experience working with CAD Tools & flow

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in CAD flow or FE methodology development

• Experience with Low Power implementation flows (UPF) is a plus

• Experience with logical equivalence tools such as Conformal LEC and/or Formality is a plus

• Experience in linting, static timing analysis, low power checks (UPF) or place and route tools is a plus

• Proficiency with TCL, Python or Perl scripting languages strongly preferred

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