CPU Clock Implementation Engineer
Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino), California, United States
Hardware
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Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) is hiring skilled engineers for CPU. As a CPU Clock Implementation Engineer, you will be driving the planning, design, implementation, and analysis of clock.
Key Qualifications
- Minimum BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- The ideal candidate will have physical design, analysis, and verification experience working on a large processor and/or SOC designs
- Knowledge of industrial standards and practices in physical design, analysis, and physical verification
- Experience in developing and implementing powergrid and clock specifications
- Solid knowledge of low power design, physical construction, Spice, EM/IR-Drop/Noise, SIGEM analysis, formal verification, physical verification, and DFM
- Strong communication skills
- Proven understanding of CMOS circuit design
- Layout design background is a plus
- Working knowledge of extraction and STA methodology and tools
- Working knowledge of computer architecture
- Solid understanding of scripting languages such as Perl/Tcl
- Ability to work well in a team, problem solver, and self-motivated
Description
As a Clock Implementation Engineer, you will participate in the following:
- Work on clock planning, building simulation models, and physical implementation
- Work on clock analysis
- Work on power grid methodologies and implementation
- Engage on physical design of blocks
- Scripting to automate tasks and improve efficiency
Education & Experience
Minimum BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience