Digital Layout Design Engineer

Apple

San Diego, CA

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JOB DETAILS

SKILLS

ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), Apple, Automation, CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing), CMOS, Cadence, Calendar Management, Circuit Design, Communication Skills, Cross-Functional, Csh (C Shell) Scripting, Customer Experience, DRC Flows, Design Verification, Digital Circuits, Electro-migration, Emerging Technology, Floorplanning, Graphic Design, Memory Hardware, Mentor Graphics, Microprocessor, Negotiation Skills, Perl Programming Language, Team Player, Technical/Engineering Design

LOCATION

San Diego, CA

POSTED

8 days ago

**Role Number:** 200670756-3543 **Summary** Do you have a passion for crafting entirely new solutions? As part of our Digital Design Engineering group, you’ll take imaginative and revolutionary ideas and determine how to turn them into reality! You and your team will apply engineering fundamentals and start from scratch if needed, bringing forward-thinking ideas to the real world. Join us, and you’ll help design the tools that allow us to bring customers experiences they’ve never before envisioned. You will be part of an exciting silicon design group that is responsible for designing state-of-the-art ASICs. We have an extraordinary opportunity for Digital Layout Designers! In this highly visible role, you will be a member of Apple’s custom layout team, working on the latest technology nodes to create extraordinary custom digital macros, libraries, etc. This is a fast paced work environment with endless learning opportunities working in the design team with members of integration, CAD, circuit and technology engineering. **Description** Imagine yourself at the center of our SOC design effort, collaborating with all fields, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. You will have the opportunity to integrate and come-up with new ideas, as well as work with a team of hardworking engineers. As a member of the layout team of the microprocessor group, you will be responsible to deliver PDV clean layout, including the following: - Designing complex custom layout for digital circuits in deep SubMicron CMOS technologies. - Reviewing and analyzing floorplans and complex circuits with circuit designers. - Running a complete set of layout design verification tools available on megacells completed. - Working with the circuit design team to plan, schedule work and negotiate layout tradeoffs as needed. - Interpretation of LVS, DRC and ERC report to find the fastest way to complete layouts. - Exceed engineering specifications and expectations. - Use advanced CAD tools, mask design knowledge to layout corrections and robust physical design representation of circuits. **Minimum Qualifications** + Bachelors degree in relevant field of study plus 3 years of relevant experience **Preferred Qualifications** + We are looking for applicants experience in custom layout design of deep SubMicron CMOS circuits. + High level proficiency in layout floorplanning, standard cell planning and hierarchical layout assembly. + Good understanding of issues with RC delay, electromigration, self heating and cross capacitance. + Recognize failure prone layout structures, dedicatedly work with designers for the best approach to problems. + Excellent communication skills and able to work with multi-functional teams. + Great skills on interpretation of CALIBRE DRC, ERC, LVS, etc. reports. + Knowledge of MENTOR GRAPHICS or CADENCE layout tools + Scripting skills in CSH, PERL or SKILL are considered a plus, but not required. + Experience in layout automation is considered a plus, but not required. + Experience in memory compiler development is considered a plus, but not required. + Experience designing low noise, low power datapaths or Memory layout structures, etc.

About the Company

Apple

We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

About Apple

There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

COMPANY SIZE

10,000 employees or more

INDUSTRY

Computer/IT Services

FOUNDED

1976

WEBSITE

https://www.apple.com/jobs

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