Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? As part of our Silicon Engineering group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processors! You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions!
As a member of the GPU Technology and PPA team, you will be responsible for the enablement of the latest technology nodes for all aspects of the implementation flow.
Description
You will perform a key role with enablement and bring-up of the latest technology nodes and projecting Performance, Power and Area for the next generation graphics chips. Your responsibilities include:
-Drive multi-functional collaboration with Front-End, Physical Design and STA teams to improve performance, power and area for the next generation GPU designs.
-Identifying and resolving key issues and challenges with respect to technology enablement.
-Work with the Apple custom design teams to analyze and drive standard cell and memory hard-IP offerings and recommend usage/methodology to the graphics FE/PD/STA teams.
-Work with power teams to analyze GPU power and tailor recommendations for power reduction across architecture and gate-level design.
-Analyze Freq/voltage choices and PPA tradeoffs.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience in TCL, Perl or Python scripting.
Experience with industry standard physical design tools.
Experience with one or more of the following: PPA optimizations in industry standard physical design, synthesis or STA tools.
BS +10 years of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated ability to deepdive into detailed aspects of tool flows and design in industry standard synthesis, physical design and STA tools.
Proficiency in logic design principles, physical design, power and timing concepts.
Knowledge of circuit layout and experience with spice tools.
Experience with data analysis to draw meaningful conclusions from large amounts of data.
Track record of working multi-functionally to drive PPA methodologies.
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