GPU Top Level Physical Design Engineer

Apple • Austin, TX

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About The Position

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 GPU. You’ll ensure Apple products and services
can seamlessly and expertly handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions.
Joining this group means you’ll be crafting and building the technology that
fuels Apple’s devices. Together, we enable our customers to do all the things
they love with their devices. This role requires a mix of strategic engineering
along with hands-on, technical work. You will be responsible for implementing
complete chip design from netlist to tapeout. You will have hands on experience
in physical design and large chip integration.

DESCRIPTION

As a GPU Top Level Physical Design engineer, you will collaborate with FE team
to understand RTL and drive physical aspects early in design cycle. You will
drive innovation with the physical design team, as you develop methodologies and
“best known methods” that will enable best-in-class GPU design. You will develop
PD guidelines and checklists, drive execution, and supervise progress. Be the
focal point for place and route integration at the top level. You will need to
communicate and drive the needs of PD with cross-functional teams that will
enable achieving the goals of the back-end design for the project.

Requirements

• BS + 3 years of relevant experience Experience with ASIC integration including one or more of the following: Floorplanning, Clock and Power distribution, global signal planning, I/O planning or hard IP integration
• Experience with one or more of the following: hierarchical design approach, top-down design, budgeting, timing or physical convergence.
• Experience with Floorplanning tools, P&R flows, global timing verification and Physical Design Verification Flows is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating IP from both internal and external vendors and be able to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain.
• Experience with Physical Design topics: multiple voltage and clock domains, ESD solutions, and mixed signal block integration.
• Experience with large subsystem designs (>20M gates) with frequencies in excess of 1GHz applying brand new technologies.
• Familiar with various process related design issues including Design for Yield and Manufacturability, multi Vt strategies and thermal Mgt.
• Proven track record in solving complex PD and cross functional problems, driving results directly and or directing a team of engineers to innovate and execute on world class designs.
• Understanding of GPU architecture and design units.
• Experience with Floorplanning tools, P&R flows, global timing verification and Physical Design Verification Flows is required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with FE team to understand RTL and drive physical aspects early in design cycle.
• Drive innovation with the physical design team, as you develop methodologies and “best known methods” that will enable best-in-class GPU design.
• Develop PD guidelines and checklists, drive execution, and supervise progress.
• Be the focal point for place and route integration at the top level.
• Communicate and drive the needs of PD with cross-functional teams that will enable achieving the goals of the back-end design for the project.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees