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GPU Physical Design Engineer, STA/Timing

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)Full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Role focused on timing closure for GPU designs in Apple’s Silicon Engineering group. Collaborates across Architecture, RTL, Synthesis, Clocking, DFT, Physical Design and Post-Silicon teams to ensure timing convergence, drive timing closure, and support tapeout.

Responsibilities

  • Interact with RTL and architecture teams to understand physical design constraints related to timing and provide these to backend design flows.
  • Partner with Synthesis and Physical Design teams to implement the best design optimized for power, performance and timing.
  • Setting up all DFT modes and ensuring all test features are properly timed.
  • Assemble the top level design for STA ensuring accurate analysis by reviewing all the logs and reports.
  • Create and maintain scripts and automation to ensure high quality STA reports and work with other teams for timing closure.
  • Run ECO flows on the design and responsible for close timing.
  • Support tapeout activities by running a full suite of signoff checks to ensure a high quality silicon for manufacture.
  • Work with CAD and Vendors to constantly improve the flow and bring in groundbreaking features to the analysis flows.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering required.
  • Experience or coursework in physical design, synthesis, DFT or clocking.
  • Experience or coursework with digital logic design, RTL, DV (testing), CMOS transistor logics or VLSI concepts.
  • Experience with scripting languages such as TCL, Python, Perl, shell scripting, etc.

Skills

Required:Timing closureSTADFTScripting
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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