Early Career - GPU Top Level Physical Design Engineer

Do you love creating 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 GPU. You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and expertly handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, we enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. This role requires a mix of strategic engineering along with hands‑on, technical work. You will be responsible for implementing complete chip design from netlist to tapeout and have hands‑on experience in physical design and large chip integration.

As a GPU Top Level Physical Design engineer, you will collaborate with the FE team to understand RTL and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle. You will drive innovation with the physical design team, developing methodologies and “best known methods” that will enable best‑in‑class GPU design. You will develop PD guidelines and checklists, drive execution, and supervise progress. You will be the focal point for place and route integration at the top level and communicate and drive the needs of PD with cross‑functional teams, enabling the back‑end design goals for the project.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of BSc/MSc in EE and some relevant experience.
• Familiar with ASIC integration including Floorplanning, Clock and Power distribution, global signal planning, I/O planning and hard IP integration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating IP from both internal and external vendors and be able to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain.
• Experience with Physical Design topics: multiple voltage and clock domains, ESD solutions, and mixed signal block integration.
• Experience with large subsystem designs (>20M gates) with frequencies in excess of 1GHz applying brand new technologies.
• Familiar with various process related design issues including Design for Yield and Manufacturability, multi‑Vt strategies and thermal Mgt.
• Proven track record in solving complex PD and cross‑functional problems, driving results directly and/or directing a team of engineers to innovate and execute on world‑class designs.
• Understanding of GPU architecture and design units.
• Experience with hierarchical design approach, top‑down design, budgeting, timing and physical convergence.
• Experience with Floorplanning tools, P&R flows, global timing verification and Physical Design Verification Flows.

At Apple, we’re not all the same. And that’s our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we’ve experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law.