SoC Power Flow Methodology Engineer

Apple • Austin, TX

75d

About The Position

Do you love creating solutions for complex challenges? As part of the Low Power group within Silicon Technologies, you'll help deliver cutting-edge new technology and capabilities for low-power chip design that fuels Apple's next-generation chips! In this role, as a member of our dynamic group, you will be responsible for the development and enhancement of our low-power flows, providing designers new capabilities in terms of power domains unseen in previous chips, while working on highly visible products used by millions of people every day! As a Power Flow Methodology Engineer, you'll deliver new automated solutions and capabilities for the Silicon Engineering Power team to build chips that are more power efficient than ever before. You will help with the architecture, implementation, and verification of new low-power design and verification flows and help to craft the low-power methodologies across a wide variety of future technologies. The work involves creating flows and tools related to power analysis, optimization and verification which may be run as part of RTL construction/verification, synthesis, or Pu0026R.

Requirements

• Good understanding of VLSI designs and SOC design flows.
• Strong passion for scripting and applying low-power domain-specific knowledge.
• Strong background with flow development and/or object-oriented language algorithm design such as Python, C++, or Java.
• Solid understanding and proven track record using modern software testing and development practices.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Tcl / Perl.
• Experience with EDA tools.
• GUI development experience.
• Familiarity with low-power concepts such as UPF and low-power design.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance low-power flows for chip design.
• Provide designers with new capabilities in terms of power domains.
• Deliver automated solutions for the Silicon Engineering Power team.
• Assist in the architecture, implementation, and verification of low-power design and verification flows.
• Craft low-power methodologies across various future technologies.
• Create flows and tools related to power analysis, optimization, and verification.
• Communicate with the design team to resolve questions and issues.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees