SoC Physical Design Engineer, STA/Timing
Apple· Hardware
Beaverton, ORfull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
In this visible role, you will be directly responsible for the physical implementation of design partition(s) (from netlist to tapeout) for a highly complex SoC using state of the art process technology.
Responsibilities
- Work with design teams to understand and debug constraints and facilitate logic changes to improve timing.
- Work with the Physical Design team, highlighting issues and best practices.
- Help create timing ECO’s for project tapeout.
- Create and maintain scripts and methodologies for analysis and runs.
- Create documentation and help with guidelines/specs.
- Deep analysis of timing paths to identify key issues.
- Implement timing infrastructure.
Qualifications
- Minimum Bachelor's degree with 0+ years of experience
- Experience with STA.
- Experience with noise, crosstalk, and/or OCV effects.
- Familiar with important aspects of timing of large high-performance SoC designs in sub-micron technologies.
- Experience with STA and methodologies for timing closure.
- Familiar with circuit modeling, including SPICE models, and/pr worst-case corner selection.
- Good programming skills with Perl and TCL.
- Experience with large design STA and Timing Closure.
- Familiar with ECO techniques and implementation.
- Good communicator who can accurately describe issues and follow them through to completion.
Skills
Required:STA/TimingNoise and Crosstalk/OCVCircuit ModelingProgramming (Perl, TCL)
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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