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Trainee Computer Chip Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

PE CAD Engineering

San Jose, CA · On-site

$126.50K - $234.90K/yr

Overview Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider, is seeking to hire an exceptional CAD Infrastructure Engineer to join our Central CAD Team. Selected candidates will be joining some of the ...

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CAD Engineer - PDV

Austin, TX

$147.40K - $272.10K/yr

... chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the ... As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design ...

CAD Engineer - PDV

Austin, TX

$147.40K - $272.10K/yr

... chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the ... As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design ...

CAD Engineer - PDV

Austin, TX

$147.40K - $272.10K/yr

... chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the ... As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design ...

CAD Engineer - PDV

Austin, TX

$113.51K - $190.90K/yr

... chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the ... As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design ...

PE CAD Engineering

San Jose, CA

$126.50K - $234.90K/yr

Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider, is seeking to hire an exceptional CAD Infrastructure Engineer to join our Central CAD Team. Selected candidates will be joining some of the brightest ...

New

CAD Engineer - PDV

Austin, TX

$147.40K - $272.10K/yr

... chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the ... As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design ...

CAD Engineer - PDV

Austin, TX

$147.40K - $272.10K/yr

... chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the ... As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design ...

CAD Engineer - PDV

Austin, TX

$113.51K - $190.90K/yr

... chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the ... As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design ...

Ability to automate and optimize CAD workflows for chip design verification. * Ability to interface ... We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical ...

CAD Engineer - PDV

Austin, TX

$113.51K - $190.90K/yr

... chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the ... As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design ...

Ability to automate and optimize CAD workflows for chip design verification. * Ability to interface ... We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical ...

Ability to automate and optimize CAD workflows for chip design verification. * Ability to interface ... We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical ...

CAD Engineer - PDV

Austin, TX

$147.40K - $272.10K/yr

... chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the ... As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design ...

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CPU Full Chip Physical Integration Engineer

CPU Full Chip Physical Integration Engineer

Apple

Austin, TX • On-site

Full-time

Posted 12 days ago


Apple rating

8.1

Company rating: 8.1 out of 10

Based on 661 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

6th of 30 rated technology retailers


Job description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish! Dynamic, intelligent people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. 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. Do you want join us in these pursuits? Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product!..In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a processor design effort interfacing with all disciplines, with a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.
As a Full Chip Integration Engineer, you will be participating in the physical design, integration, and verification of high performance, low power processor development. • Full chip floorplan, area optimizations, block partitioning and pin placements• Own chip level place and route (PnR), final CPU layout database construction and verification (PDV)• Develop and validate Power Grid, including routability analysis• Drive custom layout integration, block and full-chip level EM/IR, electrical verification/analysis as well as formal verification• Work with the implementation/CAD teams during the entire chip design cycle to drive signoff closure for tapeout• Work with the SOC team to meet IP technical and delivery requirements• Participate in establishing CAD and physical design methodologies and flow development for chip integration and analysis• Scripting to automate tasks and improve debug efficiency
Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experienceExperience with scripting in Perl or TCL
Knowledge of industrial standards and practices in Physical Design, including Floorplanning, Partitioning, Budgeting, Place and Route and Physical VerificationExperience in developing and implementing Power Grid and Clock specificationsSolid knowledge of Low Power Design, Physical Construction, Integration, EMIR (Drop/Noise), SIGEM Analysis, Formal Verification, Physical PDV, DRC/LVS Verification, and DFMSolid understanding of verification tools such as Conformal LP, LEC, RedHawk, CalibreSolid understanding of CMOS circuit design. Layout design background is a plusWorking knowledge of Extraction and STA methodology and toolsWorking knowledge of Computer ArchitectureAbility to work well in a team, being an excellent problem solver, and self motivated

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Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, intelligent people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same real passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it.

Industry

Computer and electronic product manufacturing

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Cupertino, CA, US

Year founded

1976