Physical Design Engineer

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Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Collaborate with architecture, CAD, timing and logic design teams, with a critical impact on delivering best in class designs; Work with the logic design team to understand partition architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle; Complete netlist to GDS2 implementation for partition(s) meeting schedule and design goals; Time, physical and electrical verification, and driving the signoff closure for the partitions; Resolve and improving design and flow issues

related to physical design, identifying potential solutions, and driving execution; Work with logic designer to decide on design hierarchy and to architect macro/design module placement to extract best PPA at floorplan stage; Work with EDA tools to optimize the design to get best placement location for millions of cells in the design; Construct clock tree to support high performance and low power designs; Route the design to meet all latest technology foundry guidelines and rules; Verify design performance using Static analysis,