CAD Engineer – Timing for Transistor-Level Flows & Methodologies
Austin, Texas, United States
Hardware
Do you love building elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices!
In this role you will be responsible for defining, implementing, and supporting the methodologies, flows, and tools necessary to verify transistor-level circuits in the areas of timing, signal integrity and circuit verification. You will work very closely with digital and analog designers to ensure that their designs meet functionality, timing, electrical, power, and signal integrity goals.
Key Qualifications
- Experience and/or related course works in timing, STA, CAD/methodology, digital design, etc.
- Programming in Perl, Python, TCL, or similar language.
- Exposure to transistor-level tools such as NanoTime, PathMill, HSPICE is a plus.
- Knowledge of digital custom circuit designs including dynamic circuit techniques and memories as well as SPICE models and netlists.
- Self-stater and highly motivated.
- Good communicator who can accurately describe issues and follow them through to completion.
Description
- Work with design teams to understand and debug tool issues and constraints
- Create/maintain flows, scripts and methodologies for transistor level analysis
- Work closely with design teams and CAD to drive timing, power, signal integrity, and functional verification closure efforts
- Deep analysis of timing paths to identify key issues
- Create documentation and help with guidelines/specs
Education & Experience
Minimum requirement of BS + 0 years of relevant industry experience.