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Technology PPA Engineer
| Company | Apple |
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| Location | Cupertino, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $143100 – $264200 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience
Responsibilities
- Participating and leading cross functional teams to solve key technology definition and design challenges.
- Explore various technology questions and knobs to maximize PPA
- Explore and help define std cell architectures and flows to maximize the PPA for CPUs, GPUs and SOC designs.
- Collaborate with CAD teams to help create flows for the future technology
- Collaborating with other disciplines such as physical design verification, RC extraction, IR and static timing analysis (STA).
Preferred Qualifications
- Electrical engineering fundamentals in digital circuits, timing/power concepts, and logic design
- Basic scripting skills to interface with tools and mining data
- Experience in using industry standard synthesis, PnR and STA tools
- Understanding of technology or experience in advanced technology would be a plus
- Expert in CAD flow or PD methodology development
- Experience with advanced technology node and std cell architecture/definition
- Proficiency with Tcl, Python or Perl scripting languages
- Hands on knowledge of industry standard PNR tools
- Expertise in analysis aspects of Physical Design – extraction, timing, noise, physical verification, EMIR.
