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Physical Design Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Beaverton, ORFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Physical Design Engineer role at Apple focused on end-to-end physical design of high-performance PHY/SOC blocks, from RTL to GDSII, collaborating with architecture, CAD, timing, and logic teams to deliver robust PHY designs.

Responsibilities

  • Generate block/chip level static timing constraints.
  • Build full chip floor-plan including pin placement, partitions and power grid.
  • Develop and validate high performance low power clock network guidelines.
  • Perform block level place and route and close the design to meet timing, area and power constraints.
  • Generate and Implement ECOs to fix timing, noise and EM IR violations.
  • Run Physical Design verification flow at chip/block level and provide guidelines to fix LVS/DRC violations to other designers.
  • Participate in establishing CAD and physical design methodologies for correct by construction designs.
  • Assist in flow development for chip integration.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and 10 years experience preferred.
  • Deep design experience in high PHY and/or SOC designs.
  • Deep Knowledge about industry standards and practices in Physical Design, including Physically aware synthesis, Floor-planning, and Place & Route.
  • Experience in developing and implementing Power-grid and Clock specifications.
  • Strong understanding of all aspects of Physical construction, Integration and Physical Verification.
  • Knowledge of HDL languages like Verilog to collaborate with logic design team for timing fixes.
  • Power user of industry standard Physical Design & Synthesis tools.
  • Deep Understanding of scripting languages such as Perl/Tcl, solid understanding of Extraction and STA methodology and tools.
  • Deep Understanding of Physical Design Verification methodology to debug LVS/DRC issues at chip/block level.

Skills

Required:Static timing constraintsFloor planningClock network designPlace & RouteECOs and timing/EM/IR fixesPhysical Design verificationCAD/PD methodologiesVerilogScripting (Perl/Tcl)
Nice to have:Chip integration flow

Benefits

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that promotes inclusion and diversity.
  • Accessibility and accommodations information available on Apple’s career pages.
Last updated Jul 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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