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Apple Standard Cell Design Methodology & Flow Engineer United States, California 467224774
21.04.2025
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Imagine yourself at the center of our cutting-edge processor design in deep submicron technologies, and on standard cell library designs. You will have the opportunity to integrate and come-up with new insights, as well as work with a team of talent engineers. In this role on our custom circuits team, you will:- Be the interface to internal CAD team for planning production flows and with foundry on PDK requirements.- Collaborate with technology team on new process requirements and work with design/CAD team to enable relevant tools/flows- Implement sophisticated digital block in Verilog/SystemVerilog, run simulations or formal check for verification.- Use data analysis techniques and/or sophisticated Machine Learning models to study the circuit trends in timing, power, and area, and to potentially detect quality issues in large datasets.
- BS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience
- At least 5+ years in Library Characterization, Timing/Power/CCS Noise/Variation Modeling, Liberty Formats, Spice simulation, Static Timing and Power Analysis flows, etc.
- Experience with timing modeling of large custom macros and complex sequential flops.
- Exposure to Design For Test, scan concept and write DFT friendly RTL
- Understands all aspects of implementation specification, design, timing, power, and flow automation.
- Data analysis and ML knowledge to study data trend and perform QA on big dataset with automation
- Flow automation skills in standard cells development and integration to improve execution efficiency. Experience of using Python/TCL/Perl
- Knowledge of FE modeling/Verilog and/or VHDL, and experience with various EDA tools for characterization, synthesis, place-route, Verilog simulation, spice simulation, formal verification, DRC/LVS, RC extraction and/or library characterization.
- Proven understanding of device physics and process.
- Familiar with foundry ecosystem and benchmarking practice.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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